A surgeon at the front contributes some interesting notes in a recent issue of the "British Medical Journal" on the difference between "terror" and "funk" in their effects on men whom he has observed feeling them. "Terror," he says, is not abated for some time after reaching a place of safety, whereas "funk"? is. That seems to show that the one is irrational and the other not.
Terror, in fact, is a sort of temporary insanity, a pathological state, while "funk" is the consequence of foreseeing what may happen from a definite cause. Once the cause is removed, imagination ceases to work on it and the sensation of fear disappears. It interesting to note that the wr observed few cases of men being terrified and that those he saw suffering from "funk" when they first arrived very soon became utterly careless of shells and bullets. Terror on the other hand was followed by permanent incapacity to face danger.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.