nervous prostration

The financial markets were “on the verge of nervous prostration” awaiting the court’s ruling, as Joseph P. Kennedy, then chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, recounted.

“Of nervous prostration following on great loss or waste of blood.”

Never strong or robust, for some years she had been subject to attacks of nervous prostration.

He has duties, it is true, but they did not strike me as being wearing ones, or as threatening nervous prostration.

He will avoid headaches, fevers, colds, anaemia, nervous prostrations and diseases of every kind which rack the body and make life a misery, irrespective of his attitude to the question of survival after death.