[3] Such as for instance, D. Forsyth, Lancet, Dec. 25th, 1915, p. 1399; C. S. Myers, Lancet, Mar. 18th, p. 608; R. G. Rows, Brit. Med. Jour., Mar. 25th, 1916, p. 441; G. Elliot Smith, Lancet, April 15th and 22nd, 1916; H. Wiltshire, Lancet, June 17th, 1916.
[4] Wiltshire, op. cit., p. 1210.
[5] On pp. 4, 5.
[6] The reader who is interested in these important distinctions should consult McDougall, Social Psychology, London, 1915, p. 116.
[7] Cf. the statements of two experienced neurologists:—Déjerine and Gauckler (written before the war), “Overwork and fatigue are no more a cause of neurasthenia than they are of tuberculosis. Without emotion there are no psychoneuroses.”
(The Psychoneuroses and their Treatment by Psychotherapy, Jelliffe’s translation, 1913, p. 232.)
[8] An experimental investigation of the mental effects of loss of sleep has been carried out by Miss May Smith of the Oxford Psychological Laboratory. A short account of these experiments and their results is given in “Some Experimental Investigations of Fatigue,” by T. H. Pear, Proceedings of London County Council Conference of Teachers, 1914.
[9] Op. cit., p. 1402.
[10] In his book, “Bodily Changes produced by Fear, Pain, Hunger and Rage,” Professor Cannon has given a striking demonstration of the importance of emotion in producing such bodily disturbances.
[11] Capt. Wiltshire, as a result of recent experience near the firing line in France thinks that the men’s accounts of the duration of unconsciousness are often exaggerated, owing to their faulty memory of the time at which it occurred. He also says that in his opinion the actual individual shell-shock which prostrates the man is but the final precipitating cause. (Op. cit., p. 1207.)