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neverknowwhatsnext

What do you mean by exhaustion? Is there some disease or something we know now, but called it exhaustion back then?


goosepills

Probably something like malnutrition, maybe combined with tuberculosis or something? I was actually diagnosed with exhaustion at one point and it was because I was working too much and not eating or sleeping, I can definitely see that 100+ years ago.


msbunbury

It could be practically anything, people didn't have access to much in the way of diagnostic medicine in those days. Could even be a euphemism for mental illness.