J. T MacCurdy

During World War I, when Captain J. T. MacCurdy, a Canadian psychiatrist and Cornell University lecturer, was dispatched on a special mission to Britain, he undertook one of the earliest studies of war neuroses. The new factor was the availability of high explosives following Nobel's discovery of dynamite in 1867 (nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth) and developments thereof such as trinitrotoluene (TNT) and picric acid. High explosives were a boon...