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
The patient now became calm and indifferent, lived secluded and almost
immobile. In November, however, he began to sit down and eat like
others, making low, timorous answers, vague and confused. He smiled
cheerfully on questioning, but had many sad ideas. He would smilingly
say that he was going to die soon.
_Re_ schizophrenia in the French army, Boucherot found eight cases
amongst 107 soldiers admitted to Loiret in the first year of the war.
He remarks upon the fact that the schizophrenic cases were often
disciplinary. The group is a disciplinary group. Damaye remarks upon
the difficulty of diagnosis betwixt feeblemindedness and dementia
praecox as observed in the French army.
Volunteer: Dementia praecox.
=Case 154.= (HAURY, 1915.)
N. enlisted voluntarily for three years in the Infantry, September
10, 1912, and immediately gave indications of abnormal mentality by
his conduct. He made mistakes all day long. At reveille he had to be
called several times, and when his corporal objected, he said, “It is
cold; I don’t see why I must get up; I am free to remain in bed until 8
o’clock.” In reply to his corporal’s remonstrance about his continued
latenesses, he once said, “I can’t get ready; I have no mirror to
wash before.” This was rather surprising conduct from an intelligent
printer-engraver, who had lived and gone to school in the town of
Lyons. He was unable to make his own bed or to perform the simplest of
exercises in the manual of arms. He was violent on several occasions,
once attacking a comrade who had given him an order, and again when
another had taken his place in the line. His reasoning faculties were
those of a young child. He continued doing these strange things, and
was finally discharged.
_Re_ dementia praecox amongst American troops, Edgar King, before the
war, concluded that some 5 to 8 per cent of the American cases of
mental disease in the army belonged to the paranoid form of dementia
praecox. King lays special emphasis upon dementia praecox, finding
that more than one-half of the army admissions for mental disease
belong to this group. He calls attention to the number of desertions
and undesirables in the group. He found that 70 per cent of the cases
showed some heredity.
Hysteria versus catatonia.
=Case 155.= (BONHOEFFER, 1916.)
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