Who says this is a modern disorder? The early history of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Table 1 Terminology used in medical reports and textbooks in the 18^th and 19^th century to describe symptoms of inattention or hyperactivity resembling to the current concept of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder leading to Sir George F Still clinical descriptions

Ref.	Year	Term
Melchior Adam Weikard[39,41]	1775	Attention Deficit (“Mangel der Aufmerksamkeit” or “Attentio Volubilis”)
Alexander Crichton[46]	1798	Disease of attention
Benjamin Rush[53]	1812	A syndrome involving inability to focus attention
Charles West[55]	1848	The nervous child
Heinrich Neumann[67]	1859	Hypermetamorphosis
Désiré-Magloire Bourneville[69,70]	1885	Mental instability
Thomas Clifford Albutt[57]	1892	Unstable nervous system
Thomas Smith Clouston[63]	1899	Simple hyperexcitability
George F Still[15]	1902	Abnormal defect of moral control