FOOTNOTES:
[74] p. 105.
[75] It should not be forgotten, however, that resort is often made to alcohol as an easy means of drowning the worry of an incessant mental conflict. In other words, it is clear that in treating alcoholism, as in treating insanity, we are not absolved from the plain duty of seeking its mental cause or causes. “Drink” then, in many cases, appears rather as a secondary complication than as a primary factor.
[76] Cf. W. Aldren Turner, op. cit.
[77] One of the most gratifying of these is the generous gift of a clinic to London by Dr. Henry Maudsley. Up to the present this institution has been rendering valuable service to the country as part of the 4th London General Military Hospital.
[78] Appendix to Medico-Psychological Association Report, p. 18.
[79] “One thing which impressed ... [us] ... when going through ... the Giessen clinic with Professor Sommer, was the frequency with which we heard him utter the word ‘recovering’ as we passed the patients.” Ibid., p. [17].
[80] Op. cit., p. 2.
[81] Op. cit., pp. 15-16.
[82] Vide infra.