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This “internal ailment” could refer to the diagnosis of hysteria that women often received during this time period.
“Hysteria” was a blanket diagnosis of mental illness and only diagnosed in women: women suffering from it exhibited a wide array of symptoms, including faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, muscle spasm, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, and “a tendency to cause trouble”. In some early diagnoses of “hysteria”, it was thought to to stem from adapting to modern life.
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This description shows the new technologies of the Modernist time, such as the motor cars, airplanes, and a busy city atmosphere.
The airplane reference perhaps demonstrates how the effects of the war (psychological PTSD or otherwise) are still felt years after it ended. The War prompted a huge upheaval of social norms and affected everyone; the plane is a symbol of this.
