title: History of chronic fatigue syndrome.
abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome is not a new medical condition. For centuries its confusing array of features has been attributed to numerous environmental, metabolic, infectious, immunologic, and psychiatric disturbances. This is a review and critique of many of these alternative diagnoses, sufficient to provide a historical background for current thinking about the disorder.
authors.affiliation: Medical Virology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Straus
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States