Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 51 | Some That Seem like Cowards Are Not

Some That Seem Like Cowards Are Not N officer seized in the presence A AN of ot his men with trembling all allover allover over even to chattering teeth profuse profuse pro pro- fuse Use sweating violent palpitation of ot the heart and emotional disturbance so 30 great that he could coul no longer give rational ord orders who who rs-who who in a word had lost his head entirely was entirely was ho he a coward or Ill m or both This man had fought well had been wounded twice and returned to duty And fro from childhood he bad had been subject to emotional crises This same officers officer's wife going Into what most people would call hysterics hysterics hyster ics at tho the slightest worry shock or unusual noise olse having fits o of 01 trembling trembling trem trem- bling bUng weeping suffocation anger which she vainly tried to subdue was subdue was she suffering from nervous hysteria This woman had been in a serious railway accident In which she was wounded but with superhuman calm she helped to rescue and dress the wounds of ot other passengers taken from Ilie fhe burning train The New York Medical Journal In describing these cases says the man was no coward but was worthy of ot commendation com Corn for having gone to tho the end ena of his resources rather than desert his post And the woman was sas no hysterical cal cat neurasthenic Instead they were both suffering Buttering from Cram a disorder first described by Dr Ernest Dupre In 1911 and now new named by Dr Maurice aurice de Fleury his associate asso asso- elate la maladie de do Dupre The coward would have shirked danger This man knew the danger and did his best to conquer his own emotional dis dis- dis- dis The hysterical neurasthenic would have havo had bad her ber attacks when there were spectators and the symptoms symptoms syrup syrup- toms would quickly have bave disappeared when she found herself alone The Medical Journal remarks then In these days when many men and particularly women are more or less liable to wander on to the borderland of or insanity and be bc Ignorantly labelled cowardly hysteric or worse by ill ill- informed alienists there Is urgent necessity for Cor sounder diagnosis of mental conditions