The soldier's heart and the effort syndrome / by Thomas Lewis.

  • Lewis, Thomas, Sir, 1881-1945.
Date:
1918
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Credit: The soldier's heart and the effort syndrome / by Thomas Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have emphasised the symptom group to which the term 46effort syndrome” is applied, hoping by so doing to draw more lasting attention to a group of symptoms which in combination indicate a commencing failure of the body’s reserve of strength. For if we are to raid more fully that no-man’s-land, the borderland of disease which is the hunting ground of the adventure¬ some, this syndrome will be a foe we shall often encounter. It is now nearly three }^ears since, working as a member of the Staff of the Medical Research Committee, I introduced at the Military Heart Hospital, Hamp¬ stead, a system of graded drills, and employed these remedially and as a means of justly grading soldiers returned to that hospital for supposed affections of the heart. My repeated contention that the surest means of gauging physical endurance is to test those suspected of lacking it by putting them to work has borne some fruit. The system devised has spread to many other military institutions at home and abroad and has received a wide measure of acceptance in the