Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mental Hygiene, 1919, Vol. 3 In earlier operations certain administrative difficulties made it possible to deal with war neuroses in divisional hospitals only in occasional instances, but the results obtained in those divisions in which it proved feasible to station the neuropsychiatrist during combat in the triage or most advanced field hospital proved so brilliant that the plan was extended throughout the First Field Army. The fact that in times of stress enormous numbers of wounded passed through the triages of the divisions engaged in a single day necessitated a second line of defense, still within the sphere of army control. This was provided during the St. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.