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The Neurotic Dyspeptic Soldier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

S. D. Mitchell  and
C. S. Mullin
S. D. Mitchell
Affiliation:
E.M.S.
C. S. Mullin
Affiliation:
U.S. Navy, E.M.S.
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Recent observers have differed considerably as to the incidence of neurosis among dyspeptics in the services. Whereas Hinds-Howell (1) only found about 8 per cent. of neurotic dyspepsia in a group of cases, Hartfall (2) considered that 60 per cent. of his cases, with or without ulcers, had a neurotic basis. A leading article in the Lancet on June 20, 1942 (3), stated that dyspepsia is often a manifestation of neurosis, that anxiety neurotic features are frequently associated, and that most patients are constitutional neuropaths.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 90 , Issue 381 , October 1944 , pp. 869 - 874
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1944 

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