nervous prostration
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Captured, taken to headquarters, Gangster Schultz begged for a sedative, said that he was on the verge of nervous prostration, asked that no camera flashlights be exploded.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among such groups of ailments are: Neurasthenia or nervous prostration.
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The Farm Board's wheat loans and purchases put it in a position that would have given any good banker nervous prostration.
From Time Magazine Archive
George Franklin Slosson, recovering at 90 from a spell of pneumonia and nervous prostration, has been a little off his billiard game lately.
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“Of nervous prostration following on great loss or waste of blood.”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
