Who first discovered chronic fatigue syndrome?

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It was first recognized as a syndrome in the 1860s by Dr. George Beard, who called it neurasthenia. He believed it to be a neurosis with a fatigue component. Definitions and theories of its cause have changed over the years; many cases have been misdiagnosed as imaginary because doctors could find no cause. In the mid-1980s it came to the public's attention, as affluent women in their thirties began to seek treatment. (For unknown reasons, more women than men seek treatment for the disease.) ...