WAR AND NERVES.
EFFECTS OX GERMAN ARMY. BE.RXE. April 14. Professor Goupp, the nerve j-pyeuilist. writing in the Munich Mwlir.il .journal, says there has been an alarming increase of"madness in the German army, particularly since the Allies’ olfensive in tm' middle of December. A very large number of gaps in the ranks wore duo to morbid excitement and nervous proe-UM-tion. The explosion of a shell, the death i of a comrade, is sufficient to prvdu-v j paralysis, convulsions, loss or speech. or j delirium. These oUcn disappear in tic j hospital, but reappear when the mm re- j turn to the front. Even the suggestion j of a return is often sufficient. to scud men | mad. i
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Evening Star, Issue 15778, 15 April 1915, Page 3
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