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==Victorian Period== {| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! style="width:6%" | Year || style="width:12%" | Date || Event |- |1869 || || [[George Miller Beard]] coined the term "[[neurasthenia]]." He thought it was an especially American affliction of nervous exhaustion, affected men who were "brain workers" and women who advanced too far in their education. |- |?? || || [[Jean-Martin Charcot]] - [[hysteria]]. Many of his patients were suffering from [[epilepsy]]. Influence on [[Sigmund Freud]] and the concept of [[functional disorder]]s. |} == Early 20th century == {| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! style="width:6%" | Year || style="width:12%" | Date || Event |- |1934 || || [[Atypical poliomyelitis]] - an [[Epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis|outbreak]] at [[1934 Los Angeles atypical polio outbreak|Los Angeles County Hospital]] of a disease "resembling poliomyelitis" was recorded. |} ==1950s== {| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! style="width:6%" | Year || style="width:12%" | Date || Event |- |1955 || || [[Royal Free Hospital outbreak]] in London, England, which led to the use of the name [[Myalgic encephalomyelitis]]. |} ==1960s== {| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! style="width:6%" | Year || style="width:12%" | Date || Event |- |1969 || || [[Myalgic encephalomyelitis]] classified by the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) as a neurological disease.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book | url =https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/70934/ICD_10_1969_eng_v2a.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y | title = International Classification of Diseases | last = World Health Organization | first = |publisher=WHO| year = 1969|isbn=|editor-link=|edition=Eighth revision|volume=2|location=Geneva|pages=173|chapter=|quote=Encephalomyelitis (chronic),<br>(myalgic, benign) 323|editor-last2 = |editor-link2 = }}</ref> |} ==1970s== {| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! style="width:6%" | Year || style="width:12%" | Date || Event |- |1975 || || [[1975 Sacramento outbreak|Outbreak in Mercy San Juan Hospital]], in a suburb of Sacramento, California, Unites States |- |1976 || || [[ME Association]] charity founded in [[UK]] |} ==1980s== {| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! style="width:6%" | Year || style="width:12%" | Date || Event |- |1980 || || Outbreak in Ayrshire, Scotland ([[1980-81 Ayrshire outbreak]]). |- |1984 || || Disease outbreak in [[1984 Incline Village chronic fatigue syndrome outbreak|Incline Village]] near Lake Tahoe in Nevada, United States. |- |1984 || || Disease outbreak in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States([[1984 Chapel Hill outbreak]]). |- |1985 || || Disease outbreak in Lyndonville, New York, United States ([[1985 Lyndonville outbreak]]). |- |1988 || || First definition of [[Chronic fatigue syndrome]] produced, later updated in 1994. |} ==1990s== {| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! style="width:6%" | Year || style="width:12%" | Date || Event |- |1994 || || [[Chronic fatigue syndrome]] criteria update to the 1994 [[Fukuda criteria]]. |- |1994 || September || Publication of the [[1994 National Task Force Report on CFS/PVFS/ME]] by [[Westcare UK]], notably the [[London criteria]] |- |1996 || || ''[[Osler's Web]]: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic'' by [[Hillary Johnson]] is published chronicling the governmental inaction and fraud in investigating [[ME/CFS]] |- |} ==2000s== {| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! style="width:6%" | Year || style="width:12%" | Date || Event |- |2003 || || [[Canadian Consensus Criteria]] is developed by [[Bruce Carruthers]], et al. |- |2009 || || Publication of the [[Judy Mikovits]] study in ''[[Science]]'' claiming a link between [[Chronic fatigue syndrome]] and the [[XMRV]] retrovirus. |- |2009 || || Preliminary research published by Norwegian researchers proposes assessment of the use of cancer drug [[Rituximab]] to treat the disease. |} ==2010s== {| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! style="width:6%" | Year || style="width:12%" | Date || Event |- |2011 || || [[International Consensus Criteria]] is developed by [[Bruce Carruthers]], et al. |- |2011 || || The controversial British [[PACE trial]] is published in ''[[The Lancet]]'', recommending [[cognitive behavioral therapy]] and [[graded exercise therapy]] as treatments. |- |2011 || || The ''[[Science]]'' journal retracts the [[XMRV]] paper. |- |2015 || || The [[Institute of Medicine report]] is released: "Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Redefining an illness", which reviewed thousands of articles, and concluded that "ME/CFS is a serious, chronic, complex and multisystem disease that frequently and dramatically limits the activities of affected patients" (p. 209). The report recommended new diagnostic criteria, and a new name for the condition: [[Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease]] (SEID). |- |2015 || || [[Francis Collins]] announces the intent of the [[National Institutes of Health]] to take the disease more seriously. |- |2015 || || The [[Open Medicine Foundation]] announces its [[End ME/CFS Project]], led by [[Ronald Davis]], has support of three Nobel prize laureates. |- |2016 || || [[National Institutes of Health]], United States begins study of ME/CFS patient in their in-house Clinical Center in Bethesda |} ==See also== *[[Osler's Web]] by [[Hillary Johnson]] *[[Thirty Years of Disdain]] by [[Mary Dimmock]] *[[List of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome outbreaks|List of outbreaks]] *[[ME and CFS in popular culture]] *[[Notable studies]] ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:History]]
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