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should be increased, preferably in the shape of special departments of the general hospitals, where every available means of treatment should be capable of being employed, and especially those psychological methods whose success has been demonstrated in the war cases. For it must ever be remembered that these war cases are essentially the same as the nervous disorders, the neurasthenias, nervous breakdowns and so forth which were here before the war, and will still be here after the war. The number of these cases has always been very great, and it is a reasonable hope that the favourable results achieved with the war patients will lead to the establishment of similar methods of treatment for civilians, both men and women.
Here again treatment should be associated with organised investigation and with teaching. These three functions have their natural home in the universities and medical schools, and it is from them that we shall confidently expect the developments that are so urgently needed.
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH
