Word: shell-shocked
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...French were harder on shell-shock cases, did not send them to rest homes nor promise them pensions, were able to send large numbers back to fight. When the British got tougher with their nervous cases, their cures increased...
...used to be called "shell shock." Doctors now call it "traumatic war neurosis." The term "shell-shock" has been loosely used for symptoms ranging all the way from temporary nervousness and hysteria (e.g., a soldier thinks his arm is paralyzed but moves it when the doctor proves the reflexes are in working order) to permanent insanity. So far, about 5% of all World War II battle casualties and about 20% of the casualties returned to the U.S. have been nervous cases...
...lost generation,' men who go to college for the deb parties and social prestige of a Harvard education, will probably not be affected by the war, Allport reported. Before the war or after, college will still be a pleasant waste of time, and no amount of shell-shock can change this attitude...
...Archibald McNeal Johnson, 43, lawyer, sportsman, second son of U. S. Senator Hiram Warren Johnson of California; by his own hand (pistol); in his home outside San Francisco. An artillery major in the World War, wounded at Chateau Thierry, he was said by friends to have suffered from recurrent shell-shock. Divorced in June from Martha Ruddy Leet Johnson, he left a note in verse, ending: "Forgive me, God. for all I've done to please that ever-grasping one who took my very life...
...condition known during the war as shell-shock is by no means as uncommon among young college students as might be thought. In this connection the doctor points out, Harvard is fortunate in having the services of Dr. H. A. Shaw '89, whose long service as surgeon in the United States Army and later at the Psychopathic Hospital in Boston has especially fitted him for such work with young...