[Ads-l] Clinical depression 1920

[victor steinbok]

OED cites 1937.

This is the cited source

The Quarterly Review of Michigan Alumnus
Spring 1937. Vol. 43, N.17. March 27, 1937

Margaret Bell. The University Health Service. P. 553

On examination it is found that the situation is one of frank clinical
depression, a common and well-known type of mental condition, characterized
by melancholic reactions and a slowing and impeding of all functions,
including the intellectual.

I have an earlier source.

The American Journal of Physiology. Vol. 52, N.1. May 1, 1920.

G.H. Whipple, H.P. Smith, A.E. Belt. Shock as a manifestation of tissue
injury following rapid plasma protein depletion.

P. 88

There was a certain amount of clinical depression, but no serious shock.

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