E. EPICRISIS[8]
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Southard, Elmer Ernest
Così od’ is che solava la lancia
d’Achille e del suo padre esser cagione
prima di trista e poi di buona mancia.
Thus I have heard that the lance of Achilles,
and of his father, used to be occasion
first of sad and then of healing gift.
Inferno, Canto XXXI, 4-6.
Source notes
[8] Material is here drawn passim from the compiler’s Shattuck Lecture on Shell-shock and After, read before the Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston, June 18, 1918.