ABSTRACT
For the sake of completeness, it is necessary to describe a condition to which the term “exhaustion neurosis” may be applied. This is the result of actual bodily or mental exhaustion. Cases were seen during the war after long and fatiguing retreats, and after extremely debilitating diseases. Many cases were seen after the retreat from Mons and some after the retreat in March 1918. Cases which occurred after the Russian retreat from the Donajecs and the Italian retreat from Capporetto have been described in continental literature. Exhaustion neurosis also occurred amongst men debilitated by diarrhœal diseases during the Gallipoli campaign. The result of these exhausting processes was to deprive the nerve cells of their proper nutrition, and on examination one would expect to find the individual cells shrunken and deficient in Nissl’s granules.
