Comparatively little attention has been devoted to schizophrenia in the extensive psychiatric literature which has accumulated during the War. While man-power was more important than Man, it could hardly be otherwise, for those who succumbed to this illness were usually invalided even in the event of full recovery. But there was perhaps another reason to be found in the belief that schizophrenia was merely an old friend of peacetime interjecting itself inconveniently into wartime medicine, but not having any special or unusual qualities save perhaps an acuter onset or a better prognosis.