NERVES and WAR STRAIN
An eminent medical authority who has made a special study of the nervous system, writing in the Even ing News of London about "war strain" and its effects on people, says:— "Every surgeon knows that occasionally a medical student merely watching an operation may faint, though I believe this is a much rarer event than it used to be; he also knows that this does not happen if the student is allotted some duty, however minor, to perform in connection with the operation. Just so, the best antidote against this long' drawn-out war of nerves is active co-operation in some form of national service. "For each of us to play some part in national defence is the best way of being released from obsessions of fear, as well as being best for our country. In a war of nervous attrition I do not. think we shall be the losers! For under our modern 'veneer is the same stout English oak which has carried us to victory and secured one freedom in the past. Once again in Pitt's immortal words: 'We shall save England by our exertions and save Europe by our example,'" i
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 150, 22 April 1940, Page 7
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197NERVES and WAR STRAIN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 150, 22 April 1940, Page 7
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