Fatigue-from mere weariness to pathological exhaustion

摘要

In her ballad "A lost chord" (1858),Adelaide Ann Procter observed:"Seated one day at the organ,I was weary and ill at ease",lines that popularised a Victorian song which in my youth was much heard in family gatherings.Weariness,closely allied to fatigue,was then attributed to sheer boredom or mild exhaustion.