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War's Second Nature
Dewey, Stoddard | July 6, 1918 issue

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War habits are forming, by their peculiar, and more or less permanent, upsetting of nervous equilibrium, that second nature which is called emotive constitution. Before World War I much study had been given to lasting changes in this emotive constitution of individuals, particularly when resulting from certain infectious diseases or intoxicants or wounds where nervous commotion and emotional excitement have been intense or prolonged or repeated. An extreme instance is a case of desertion which was tried at a Paris court-martial in April 1918. The countries which are now at war have already been obliged to consider such traumatism, or nerve shock from wounds, which becomes a habit and second nature.

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WORLD War, 1914-1918; WAR; TRAUMATISM; COURTS-martial & courts of inquiry; NERVOUS system; PATHOLOGY
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