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Mitchell and Mullin surveyed a group of fifty soldiers with neurotic dyspepsia and compared them with a group of one hundred neurotics who displayed little or no gastric symptoms. No dynamic material is given. It is reported that the gastric symptoms were usually vague in character, occurrence and duration; that 86 per cent of the men had been subject to gastric distress in civilian life; that this distress was aggravated by homesickness and by the strain of adjusting to the demands of military life; that the military efficiency of this group was low; and that they tended to be very dependent in attitude. A family history of dyspepsia was present in 74 per cent of the cases. Prolonged hospitalization tended to result in fixation of the symptoms. Eighty per cent of the patients who had gastric complaints were recommended for discharge from the army as compared with 64 per cent of those with other neuroses, and many of them were referred for psychotherapy on their return to civilian life.