MACPHERSON, William Grant, & others (ed.).

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Medical Services Diseases of the War. Volume II. First edition, one of 1,500 copies. This volume largely focuses on gas warfare, including descriptions of early protective measures and gas masks, how to treat lung irritants, the effects of mustard gas, and carbon monoxide poisoning in mines.The first chapter is a substantial treatment of "Neurasthenia and War Neuroses", that being mental exhaustion brought on by wartime stress. One of the co-authors, William Johnson, studied under Professor Déjerine at La Salpêtrière, Paris, and under Professor Edinger at Frankfurt am Main, ending the war as head of the advanced army centre for psychoneuroses for the Fifth Army in France.Major-General Macpherson (1858-1927) fought as a medical officer in the Second Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, and finally in the First World War. In 1914 he was the deputy to Sir Arthur Sloggett as director-general of the British Army's Medical Service at the War Office, but he left that role on the outbreak of war to join the Army Medical Service Staff. During the war he was mentioned in despatches nine times, picking up the sobriquet "Tiger Mac" on account of his ferocious energy and attention to detail.

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