ME/CFS Timeline

By misspoodle

  • Dyer Enlists

  • Charles Dawes Enlisted

    18yrs old
  • Period: to

    The Eighth Hussars Serve in Crimea

  • Returns to India

  • Farrier Major John Medically Discharged

  • Dawes Returns to Britian After serving in India

    increasing fatige, Exhaustio, weakness, tremor, pains in his legs when walking, pain in joints, knees and elbows. Cough and vision issues in left eye

  • Dawes Becomes Sergeant

  • George Beard and E Van Deusen coins Neurasthnia

  • John Chaplin Commnts on Dawes

    Said that Dawes had been a good and committed soldier. He rose through the ranks

  • Dawes is Discharged From Military

  • Dawes can no longer work

    Dawes cannot hold employment any longer

  • Dawes Worsens

    More debilitated and Feeble later

  • Dawes Passes away

  • Myalgic Encephalomyelitis coined

    Coined after outbreak of illness of the staff at Royal Free Hospital. Thought to be new

  • ME/CFS Proposed as diagnostic label