Shell-shock and other neuropsychiatric problems : $b Presented in five hundred and eighty-nine case histories from the war literature, 1914-1918Southard, Elmer Ernest
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Shell-shock and other neuropsychiatric problems : $b Presented in five hundred and eighty-nine case histories from the war literature, 1914-1918
Southard, Elmer Ernest
War neuroses; World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care; World War, 1914-1918 -- Psychological aspects
VI. INTELLIGENCE: Disorder of recollective memory.
Speech-disorder. Intellectual inertia. Overimagination
(hallucinations, tremors).
Mairet, Piéron, Bouzansky.
Gunshot wound of head; alcoholism: Amnesia.
=Case 104.= (KASTAN, January, 1916.)
A German soldier had a bullet pass through his right eye and lower
jaw, leaving a fistulous opening from the mouth. He said that he was
completely blind, but ophthalmological examination cast doubt upon the
blindness. There had been immediately after the injury a number of
severe attacks of dizziness, which lasted several hours; and another
attack developed after he had come back from hospital, to which he had
gone by reason of his pains.
He was to be arrested on account of a disciplinary crime and had
ostensibly gone to his mother’s house, there to await arrest. The
non-commissioned officer found him in a saloon. As soon as the phrase,
“You are my prisoner!” was said, the soldier lost track of his
surroundings. He had drunk a few glasses of beer but did not himself
think he was drunk at the time. He was insulting and violent when asked
to proceed with the officer, and a policeman was called in to take
charge. He then lay down in the street and had to be put upon a wagon,
still firing abusive phrases at his captors.
Upon examination, aside from the effects of the gunshot, excessive
knee-jerks and tremors of the body were found. The eyebrows met but
there was no other sign of bodily stigmata. There seems to have been no
hereditary disease, or any history of severe alcoholism, though the man
had been convicted previously of violence and theft. The amnesia is to
be ascribed to effects of the head injury.
Bullet in brain: Crises; cortical blindness; vertigo; hallucinations.
=Case 105.= (LEREBOULLET AND MOUZON, July, 1917.)
An invalided soldier, 40, was sent to be observed, Oct. 23, 1916,
because he wanted his pension renewed. He had been retired a year
before for diminution of binocular vision with impaired perspective
of objects in the right half of the visual field. He had now become
completely blind.
He had been wounded, March 12, 1915, in the Argonne, without losing
consciousness. He was wounded at ten o’clock at night and waited until
the next day to walk to the ambulance and was at this time able to see
perfectly. Arriving at the ambulance he lost consciousness. He was
trephined but remembers nothing about the trephining.
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