War Neuroses: Netley Hospital (1917), pt. 5 of 5

Shows the symptomatology of "shell-shock" in 18 British "other rankers" and its treatment by two leading R.A.M.C. neurologists in two British military hospitals towards the end of the First World War. Part 5 of 5. Find out more: http://catalogue.wellcome.ac.uk/record=b1667864~S8

Category:

Education

Tags:

• combat disorders
• shell shock
• WW1
• first world war
• military hospitals
• medical film
• archive film
• silent film

[Sw33tSm0k3]

@C3P0meetsData Shell shock has always exited. It's just that World War I compared to World War II was a lot more gruesome.

body's getting blown apart, watching lifeless bodies lying everywhere, body organs spread across, sometimes of their own friends. Intense and unbearable fever and illnesses, constant fear of getting killed, constant worries in general and no peace of mind, EVER.

That my friend, is sure to bring shell shock aka War Neurosis.

god bless all these people, and may they RIP.

[bonesmccoy1]

I have PTSD there are still things i avoid.....and i didn't face the hell they did in WW1.....they knew so little about it back then. These men lived through..well words fail to describe it.....They are my heroes....

[MegaProjectpat]

I hope there soul found peace.......

[SuperGetitgotitgood]

Looks like they were in the fledgling stages of occupational and physical therapy treatments.. perhaps quite a few of these half day miracle cures were simply calming the man down and doing some repetitions to get him walking normal again. some of the long term treatments were probably curing brain injury from concussion. Im a stroke survivor and i see the same gait, balance and movement traits in stroke victims. There men must have suffered brain bleeds that interupted motor skills .

[WJHHunterston]

My great uncle was there and was put in the hospital for rheumatic fever and fibromialga, got better in 1 month and sent to fight again. (nothing neuro/psychological happened. An artillery gunner. You can get other problems too - unrelated to bullets/shrapnel.) He came home, worked, married, had 2 kids and lived healthy into his 90's...a rare blessed outcome for WW1 Vets of Canada.

[WJHHunterston]

Were they made deaf too? (huge shells shatter ear drums too)

[crusaderforever]

GREAT VIDEOS.

HEARTBREAKING, BUT SEEING THAT THEY COULD COME BACK FROM IT, MAKES ME ELATED.

HEROES, ALL OF THEM.

[assholeyeng]

a fake

[CymroGoch]

@J99Grimbold No, I think they were just making a movie for 'fun'.

[TheHolyMolyPoly]

@elvee88 I think you are absolutely right, serious trauma makes the hippocampus shrink and there's no way to cure that.