Is it surprising then that after such violent roles there follow relapses into feverishness and debility?
The increasing debility is acknowledged, as is the change in focus of the librettos.
Yet this debility cannot be understood entirely as a condition of imperial experience - it has a class dimension.
The larger share of cases of general debility may reflect the greater deprivation experienced by its patients.
Indeed, contrasted with our emaciated figures and extreme debility, their frames appeared to us gigantic, and their strength supernatural.
But the treatments rarely did more than relieve the symptoms temporarily and often added excruciating pain to the patient's existing debilities.
Participating in research may provide subjects with a purpose in life or a new point of reference that helps preserve an identity that is being lost to a progressive debility.
This miserable kind of creeping debility would get worse.
