The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No 4 (January 28, 1921)] . ntal and nervousdiseases have what the doctors callpsychoses. IN civil life insanity is a dreaded suggests more or less perma-nent seclusion in special hospitals littleknown to the public. At one time, per-haps, such a general feeling regardinginsanity was justified, but along withother branches of medicine that specialbranch, psychiatry, that deals with themind, has made notable advances twithin the last few years and todaythe well-equipped and specially de-signed hospital for mental diseasescounts upon restoring, wholly
The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No 4 (January 28, 1921)] . ntal and nervousdiseases have what the doctors callpsychoses. IN civil life insanity is a dreaded suggests more or less perma-nent seclusion in special hospitals littleknown to the public. At one time, per-haps, such a general feeling regardinginsanity was justified, but along withother branches of medicine that specialbranch, psychiatry, that deals with themind, has made notable advances twithin the last few years and todaythe well-equipped and specially de-signed hospital for mental diseasescounts upon restoring, wholly or par-tially, not less than half of all thepatients who come to it for treatment. With young soldiers, the outlook forrecovery under proper conditions ofcare and treatment is very much disorders of the mind that con-stitute simply part of gradual decay ofall functions in the aged are, of course,not to be found at all among ex-servicemen. General paresis, one of the mostprevalent and fatal of mental diseasesaffecting men, exists in less than half. Six out of every ten neuro-psychia-tric ex-service patients are suffer-ing from psychosis (insanity) the proportion to be found in admis-sions to civil hospitals. Alcoholicmental diseases contribute but littlemore than one per cent. In many cases the mental diseaseseems to have been brought out almostwholly by the stress of actual war, andeven in those instances in which causesappear to date far back into the per-sonal lives of the individuals affected,experiences of the war, whether onbattlefields of France or in camps athome, often deeply color the symptomsand the content of the mental diseasespresent. In nervous persons who, perhaps, didnot have as sound heredity as most ofus, even anticipation of the dangers andhardships of actual campaigning pro-duced clinical pictures almost identicalwith those seen in men withdrawn fromtheir divisions in the full tide of battleaftd sent to special neuro-psychiatrichospitals in the
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