Shell-shock and other neuropsychiatric problems

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103. Aphasia and left hemiplegia: local and _contrecoup_ lesions _L’Hermitte_, 1916 133

104. Gunshot head wound and alcohol: amnesia _Kastan_, 1916 135

105. Bullet in brain: cortical blindness and hallucinations _Lereboullet_, _Mouzon_, 1917 136

106. Content of existent psychosis changed by head trauma _Laignel-Lavastine_, _Courbon_, 1917 139

107. Meningococcus meningitis; apparent recovery: dementing psychosis _Maixandeau_, 1915 141

108. Meningococcus meningitis _Eschbach and Lacaze_, 1915 143

109. Shell-shock: meningitic syndrome _Pitres and Marchand_, 1916 145

110. Brain abscess in a syphilitic: matutinal loss of knee-jerks _Dumolard_, _Rebierre_, _Quellien_, 1915 147

111. Spinal cord lesion: early recovery _Mendelssohn_, 1916 149

112. Shell explosion and meningeal hemorrhage: pneumococcus meningitis _Guillain_, _Barré_, 1917 150

113. _Ante bellum_ cortex lesion: shrapnel wound determines athetosis _Batten_, 1916 151

114. Hysterical _versus_ thalamic hemianesthesia _Léri_, 1916 152

115. Shell-shock: multiple sclerosis syndrome _Pitres_, _Marchand_, 1916 154

116. Mine explosion: hysterical and organic symptoms _Smyly_, 1917 156

117. Same _Smyly_, 1917 156

VI. THE SYMPTOMATIC GROUP (_Somatopsychoses_)

118. Rabies: neuropsychiatric phenomena _Grenier de Cardenal_, _Legrand_, _Benoit_, 1917 162

119. Tetanus, psychotic _Lumière_, _Astier_, 1917 164

120. Tetanus _fruste_ _versus_ hysteria _Claude_, _L’Hermitte_, 1915 165

121. British officer’s letter concerning local tetanus _Turrell_, 1917 166

122. Dysentery: psychosis _Loewy_, 1915 168

123. Typhoid fever: hysteria _Sterz_, 1914 169

124. Dementia praecox _versus_ posttyphoid encephalitis _Nordmann_, 1916 170

125. Paratyphoid fever: psychosis outlasting fever _Merklen_, 1915 171

126. Paratyphoid fever: psychopathic taint brought out _Merklen_, 1915 172

127. Diphtheria: post diphtheritic symptoms _Marchand_, 1916 173

128. Diphtheria: hysterical paraparesis _Marchand_, 1915 174

129. Malaria: amnesia _De Brun_, 1917 175

130. Malaria: Korsakow’s syndrome _Carlill_, 1917 176

131. Malaria: ventral horn symptoms _Blin_, 1916 178

132. Trench foot; acroparesthesia _Cottet_, 1917 180

133. Bullet injury of spine; bronchopneumonia: _état criblé_ of spinal cord _Roussy_, 1916 181

134. Shell-shock (shell not seen); sensory and motor symptoms: decubitus; recovery _Heitz_, 1915 183

135. Shell-shock; later typhoid fever: neuritis (_ante bellum_ hysteria) _Roussy_, 1915 185

136. Bullet wound of pleura: hemiplegia and ulnar syndrome _Phocas_, _Gutmann_, 1915 186

137. Tachypnoea, hysterical _Gaillard_, 1915 188

138. Soldiers’ heart _Parkinson_, 1916 190

139. Soldiers’ heart? _Parkinson_, 1916 191

140. War strain and shell wound: diabetes mellitus _Karplus_, 1915 192

141. Dercum’s disease _Hollande_, _Marchand_, 1917 193

142. Hyperthyroidism _Tombleson_, 1917 195

143. Hyperthyroidism?, neurasthenia _Dejerine_, _Gascuel_, 1914 196

144. Hyperthyroidism _Rothacker_, 1916 197

145. Graves’ disease, _forme fruste_ _Babonneix_, _Célos_, 1917 198

146. Shell-shock hysteria: surgical complications _Oppenheim_, 1915 199

VII. THE PRESENILE AND SENILE GROUP (_Geriopsychoses_)--No cases.

VIII. THE DEMENTIA PRAECOX GROUP (_Schizophrenoses_)

147. Hatred of Prussia: diagnosis, dementia praecox _Bonhoeffer_, 1916 200

148. Dementia praecox: arrest as spy _Kastan_, 1915 201

149. Fugue, catatonic _Boucherot_, 1915 203

150. Desertion: schizophrenic? _Consiglio_, 1916 204

151. Schizophrenia; alcoholism: disciplinary case _Kastan_, 1915 206

152. Schizophrenia aggravated by service _de la Motte_, 1915 208

153. Shot himself in hand: delusions _Rouge_, 1915 209

154. Dementia praecox volunteer _Haury_, 1915 210

155. Hysteria _versus_ catatonia _Bonhoeffer_, 1916 211

156. “Hysteria” actually dementia praecox _Hoven_, 1915 213

157. Hallucinatory and delusional contents influenced by war experiences _Gerver_, 1915 214

158. Iron cross winner, hebephrenic _Bonhoeffer_, 1915 215

159. Occipital trauma; visual hallucinations _Claude_, _L’Hermitte_, 1915 217

160. Shell-shock: Dementia praecox _Weygandt_, 1915 219

161. Same _Dupuoy_, 1915 220

162. Shell-shock; fatigue; fugue; delusions _Rouge_, 1915 221

IX. THE MANIC-DEPRESSIVE GROUP (_Cyclothymoses_)

163. A maniacal volunteer _Boucherot_, 1915 222

164. Fugue, melancholic _Logre_, 1917 223

165. Apples in No-man’s-land _Weygandt_, 1914 224

166. Trench life: depression; hallucinations; arteriosclerosis; age, 38 _Gerver_, 1915 225

167. War stress: manic depressive psychosis _Dumesnil_, 1915 226

168. Predisposition; war stress: melancholia _Dumesnil_, 1915 227

169. Depression; low blood pressure; pituitrin _Green_, 1916 228

X. THE PSYCHONEUROTIC GROUP (_Psychoneuroses_)

170. Three phases in a psychopath _Laignel-Lavastine_, _Courbon_, 1917 229

171. Fugue, probably hysterical _Milian_, 1915 232

172. Hysterical Adventist _de la Motte_, 1915 234

173. Fugue, psychoneurotic _Logre_, ---- 235

174. Shell-shy; war bride pregnant: fugue with amnesia and mutism _Myers_, 1916 236

175. A neurasthenic volunteer _E. Smith_, 1916 237

176. War stress: neurasthenia in subject without heredity or soil _Jolly_, 1916 238

177. Arterial hypotension in psychasthenia _Crouzon_, 1915 239

178. War stress: psychasthenia _Eder_, 1916 240

179. _Ante bellum_ attacks: neurasthenia _Binswanger_, 1915 241

180. Antityphoid inoculation: neurasthenia _Consiglio_, 1917 244

181. Neurasthenia (one symptom: sympathy with the enemy) _Steiner_, 1915 245

XI. THE PSYCHOPATHIC GROUP (_Psychopathoses_)

182. Claustrophobia: shells preferred to tunnel _Steiner_, 1915 246

183. Pathological liar _Henderson_, 1917 247

184. Psychopath almost Bolshevik _Hoven_, 1917 249

185. Hysterical mutism: persistent delusional psychosis _Dumesnil_, 1915 250

186. Psychopathic inferiority brought out by the war _Bennati_, 1916 251

187. Psychopathic episodes _Pellacani_, 1917 252

188. Maniacal and hysterical delinquent _Buscaino_, _Coppola_, 1916 253

189. Psychopathic delinquent _Buscaino_, _Coppola_, 1916 254

190. Psychopathic excitement _Buscaino_, _Coppola_, 1916 255

191. Desertion: dromomania _Consiglio_, 1917 256

192. Suppressed homosexuality _R. P. Smith_, 1916 257

193. Psychopathic: at first suicidal, then self-mutilative _MacCurdy_, 1917 258

194. Bombardment: psychasthenia _Laignel-Lavastine_, _Courbon_, 1917 259

195. Nosophobia _Colin_, _Lautier_, 1917 261

196. Psychopath: Attacks of disgust and terror _Lattes_, _Goria_, 1915 262

SECTION B. SHELL-SHOCK: NATURE AND CAUSES

197. Shell explosion: Autopsy--hemorrhages; vagoaccessorius chromatolysis _Mott_, 1917 265

198. Mine explosion: Autopsy--hemorrhages _Chavigny_, 1916 270

199. Mine explosion: Autopsy--hemorrhages _Roussy_, _Boisseau_, 1916 271

200. Shell fragment in back: Autopsy--softenings in spinal cord _Claude_, _L’Hermitte_, 1915 272

201. Shell explosion: Autopsy--lungs burst! _Sencert_, 1915 274

202. Shell explosion: Hemorrhage in spinal canal and bladder _Ravaut_, 1915 276

203. Shell explosion: Hemorrhage and pleocytosis of spinal fluid _Froment_, 1915 277

204. Shell explosion: Pleocytosis of spinal fluid _Guillain_, 1915 279

205. Shell explosion: Pleocytosis of spinal fluid as late as a month after explosion _Souques_, _Donnet_, 1915 280

206. Burial: Thecal hemorrhage _Leriche_, 1915 282

207. Shell explosion: Hypertensive spinal fluid _Leriche_, 1915 283

208. Bullet wound: Hematomyelia; partial recovery _Mendelssohn_, 1916 284

209. Shell explosion, subject prone: Hematomyelia _Babinski_, 1915 286

210. Struck by missile: Hysterical paraplegia? Herpes; segmentary symptoms _Elliot_, 1914 288

211. Mine explosion: Head bruises, labyrinth lesions, canities unilateral _Lebar_, 1915 291

212. Shrapnel wounds: Focal canities; hysterical symptoms _Arinstein_, 1915 292

213. Burial: Organic (?) hemiplegia _Marie_, _Lévy_, 1917 293

214. Shell explosion; no wound: Organic and functional symptoms _Claude_, _L’Hermitte_, 1915 294

215. Gassing: Organic symptoms _Neiding_, 1917 296

216. Gassing: Mutism, battle dreams _Wiltshire_, 1916 297

217. Shell explosion: Organic deafness; hysterical speech disorder _Binswanger_, 1915 298

218. Distant shell explosion not seen or heard: Tympanic rupture, cerebellar symptoms _Pitres_, _Marchand_, 1916 300

219. Mine explosion: Organic and functional symptoms _Smyly_, 1917 302

220. Shrapnel skull wound: Differential recovery from functional symptoms _Binswanger_, 1917 303

221. Shell explosion shrapnel wound: Battle memories, scar hyperesthetic _Bennati_, 1916 305

222. Shrapnel wounds, operation: Hysterical facial spasm _Batten_, 1917 306

223. Shell explosion: Tremors and emotional crises _Myers_, 1916 307

224. Shell explosion, comrades killed: Tremors, crises _Meige_, 1916 308

225. Under fire: Tremophobia: French artist’s description _Meige_, 1916 310

226. Shell explosion: German soldier’s account of Shell-shock symptoms _Gaupp_, 1915 312

227. A British soldier’s account of shell-shock _Batten_, 1916 315

228. Blown up by shell: Crural monoplegia; hysterical four days later _Léri_, 1915 317

229. Shell explosion nearby: Description of treatment to demonstrate hysterical nature of characteristic symptoms _Binswanger_, 1915 318

230. Leg wound: Pseudocoxalgic monoplegia and anesthesia _Roussy_, _L’Hermitte_, 1917 323

231. Leg contusion: Crural monoplegia, hysterical; later crutch paralysis, organic _Babinski_, 1917 324

232. War strain: Arthritis; crural monoplegia and anesthesia; hysterical “conversion hysteria” _MacCurdy_, 1917 325

233. Lance thrust in back; Crural monoplegia _Binswanger_, 1915 326

234. Shell explosion: After six days, crural monoplegia (“metatraumatic” suggesting persisting hypersensitive phase after shell-shock) _Schuster_, 1916 329

235. Wound of foot: Acrocontracture, seven months’ duration; psycho-electric cure at one sitting _Roussy_, _L’Hermitte_, 1917 330

236. Shell explosion: Trauma; emotion; hysterical paraplegia _Abrahams_, 1915 332

237. Shell explosion: Burial; paraplegia _Elliot_, 1914 334

238. Shell explosion: Paraplegia and sensory symptoms, organic? _Hurst_, 1915 335

239. War strain and rheumatism; no emotional factors: Paraplegia, later brachial tremor _Binswanger_, 1915 336

240. Emotion in fever patient from watching barrage creep up: Paraplegia _Mann_, 1915 338

241. Incentives, domestic and medical, to paraplegia _Russel_, 1917 338

242. Bullet in back: Hysterical bent back; “camptocormia” _Souques_, 1915 339

243. Shell explosion: Camptocormia _Roussy_, _L’Hermitte_, 1917 340

244. Shell explosion; burial: camptocormia _Roussy_, _L’Hermitte_, 1917 342

245. Shell explosion; burial; Paraplegia, later camptocormia _Joltrain_, 1917 344

246. Bullet in thigh: Astasia-abasia. Wound of neck: Again astasia-abasia _Roussy_, _L’Hermitte_, 1917 346

247. Shell explosion: Wound of thorax; astasia-abasia _Roussy_, _L’Hermitte_, 1917 346

248. War strain and fall in trench without trauma: Dysbasia _Nonne_, 1915 347

249. Shell explosion: Partial burial; hysterical symptoms in parts buried _Arinstein_, 1916 349

250. Wound of hand: Acroparalysis _Roussy_, _L’Hermitte_, 1917 350

251. Wound of arm: Hysterical paralysis _Chartier_, 1915 351

252. Wound in brachial plexus region: Supinator longus contracture _Léri_, _Roger_, 1915 353

253. Contusion of muscle with “stupefactive” paralysis of biceps (supinator longus still functioning) _Tinel_, 1917 355

254. Wound of arm: Blockage of impulses to hand movements _Tubby_, 1915 356

255. Shell explosion: Bilateral symmetrical phenomena _Gerver_, 1915 357

256. Shell explosion: Paralytic symptoms on side exposed: Contralateral irritative symptoms _Oppenheim_, 1915 359

257. Shell explosion: Bilateral asymmetrical symptoms _Gerver_, 1915 360

258. Shell explosion: Sensory disorder on side exposed _Gerver_, 1915 362

259. Shell explosion: Hysterical deafness and other symptoms; relapse _Gaupp_, 1915 363

260. Shell explosion: Deafness _Marriage_, 1917 365

261. Mine explosion: Deafmutism; recovery on epistaxis and fever _Liébault_, 1916 366

262. Shell explosion: Deafmutism _Mott_, 1916 367

263. Shell explosion: Deafmutism and convulsions _Myers_, 1916 368

264. Gunfire: Aphonia _Blässig_, 1915 370

265. Shell-shock mutism: (_a_), observed, (_b_) dreamed of, (_c_), developed by victim of shell explosion _Mann_, 1915 370

266. Mortar explosion: Deafness _Lattes_, _Goria_, 1917 371

267. Shell-explosion: onomatopœic noises _Ballet_, 1914 371

268. Shell explosion: Gravel in eyes; eye and face symptoms _Ginestous_, 1916 372

269. Shell explosion; burial; blow on occiput; Blindness _Greenlees_, 1916 373

270. Shell-shock amblyopia: Composite data _Parsons_, 1915 374

271. Factors in shell-shock amblyopia: Excitement, blinding flashes, fear, disgust, fatigue _Pemberton_, 1915 375

272. Shell explosion amblyopia _Myers_, 1915 376

273. Shell windage without explosion: Cranial nerve disorder _Pachantoni_, 1917 378

274. Initial case in Babinski’s series to show chloroform elective exaggeration of reflexes _Babinski_, _Froment_, 1917 380

275. Wound of ankle: Contracture, chloroform effect _Babinski_, _Froment_, 1917 383

276. “Reflex” disorder of right leg: Chloroform effect _Babinski_, _Froment_, 1917 384

277. Bullet in calf: Hysterical lameness cured--reflex disorder associated therewith _not_ cured _Vincent_, 1916 385

278. Trauma of foot: Hysterical dysbasia and reflex disorders; differential disappearance of hysterical symptoms _Vincent_, 1917 386

279. Shell-shock and paraplegia: Vasomotor and secretory disorder twenty months later _Roussy_, 1917 387

280. Tetanus clinically cured: Phenomena reproduced under chloroform anesthesia _Monier-Vinard_, 1917 388

281. Example of a “reflex” disorder after shell explosion at great distance _Ferrand_, 1917 390

282. Shell fire: Shell-shock symptoms delayed _McWalter_, 1916 391

283. Shell-shock symptoms early and late _Smyly_, 1917 392

284. Wounds: Gassing; burial; collapse on home leave _Elliot Smith_, 1916 393

285. Late sympathetic nerve effect after bullet wound of neck _Tubby_, 1915 394

286. Hysterical crural monoplegia after fall from horse under fire (reminiscence of similar _ante bellum_ accident) _Forsyth_, 1915 395

287. Shell explosion, cave-in: Right leg symptoms (_ante bellum_ experiences) _Myers_, 1916 396

288. Shell explosion, wound of back: Paraparesis (subject always weak in legs) _Dejerine_, 1915 397

289. Wound near heart: Fear; paraparesis (subject always weak in legs) _Dejerine_, 1915 399

290. Wounds: Tic on walking and recovery except frontalis tic (emphasis of _ante bellum_ habit) _Westphal_, _Hübner_, 1915 401

291. Fatigue and emotion: Hysterical hemiplegia (similar hemiplegia _ante bellum_) _Roussy_, _L’Hermitte_, 1917 402

292. War strain: Hemiplegia (similar hemiplegia _ante bellum_, subject’s father hemiplegic) _Duprés_, _Rist_, 1914 403

293. Shell explosion and burial: Deafmutism (speech difficulty _ante bellum_) _MacCurdy_, 1917 405

294. War strain: Shell-shock and psychotic symptoms determined to parts _ante bellum_ _Zanger_, 1915 406

295. Mine explosion: Emotion; delirium (previous head trauma without unconsciousness) _Lattes_, _Goria_, 1917 407

296. Sniper stricken blind in shooting eye _Eder_, 1916 408

297. Anticipation of warfare: Fall while mounting sentry; hysterical blindness _Forsyth_, 1915 408

298. Spasmodic neurosis from bareback riding (similar episode _ante bellum_) _Schuster_, 1914 409

299. _Ante bellum_ spasm of hands _Hewat_, 1917 409

300. Quarrel: Hysterical chorea, reminiscent of former attack and itself reminiscent of organic chorea in subject’s mother _Dupuoy_, 1915 411

301. Hallucinations and delusions of _ante bellum_ origin: Treatment by explanation _Rows_, 1916 412

302. Tremors and convulsive crises in a poor risk _Rogues de Fursac_, 1915 413

303. Emotionality and tachycardia in a martial misfit _Bennati_, 1916 415

304. Hereditary instability _Wolfsohn_, 1918 416

305. Genealogical tree of a shoemaker _Wolfsohn_, 1918 417

306. Traumatic hysteria without hereditary or acquired psychopathic tendency _Donath_, 1915 418

307. Mine explosion, burial: Neurosis in perfectly normal soldier _MacCurdy_, 1917 419

308. Shell explosion: Tremophobia _Meige_, 1916 421

309. Frozen in bog: Glossolabial hemispasm _Binswanger_, 1915 424

310. Bruise by horse: Invincible pain--subject cured by performing heroic feat _Loewy_, 1915 426

311. Kick by horse: Hysterical symptoms including monocular diplopia _Oppenheim_, 1915 427

312. Windage from non-exploding shell: Emotion; homonymous hemianopsia _Steiner_, 1915 428

313. Shell-shock psoriasis _Gaucher_, _Klein_, 1916 429

314. _Croix de guerre_ and Shell-shock got simultaneously: Hallucinatory bell-ringing reminiscent of civilian work _Laignel-Lavastine_, _Courbon_, 1916 430

315. Waked by shell explosion: Nystagmiform tremor (occupational reminiscence in cinema worker) and tachycardia _Tinel_, 1915 432

316. Synesthesialgia: Foot pain on rubbing dry hands _Lortat-Jacob_, _Sézary_, 1915 433

317. Shell-shock and burial: Clonic spasms, later stupor _Gaupp_, 1915 435

318. War stress (liquid fire) and shell-shock: Puerilism _Charon_, _Halberstadt_, 1916 437

319. Bombed from aeroplane: Battle dreams; dizziness; fugue _Lattes_, _Goria_, 1917 439

320. Hyperthyroidism after box drops from aeroplane _Bennati_, 1916 440

321. Shell dropped without bursting: Stupor and delirium _Lattes_, _Goria_, 1917 441

322. Subject carrying explosives is jostled: Unconsciousness, deafmutism, later camptocormia _Lattes_, _Goria_, 1917 443