Treatment for ‘hysteria’

An Army form describing treatment for ‘hysteria’. Sometimes this term was used alongside shell shock or neurasthenia, or physical and mental exhaustion usually with accompanying symptoms (such as headache and irritability), often associated with depression or emotional stress, (Catalogue ref: MH 106/2145)

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For Expeditionary Force cases only.                    Army Form W.3243A

STAMP: SEALE-HAYNE MILITARY HOSPITAL NEWTON ABBOT DEVON 14 DEC.18

State from which Force Discharged     Serial No. in A & D. Book [Admission & Discharge]      T18

Regt. (state if T.F. [Territorial Force]      Royal Field Artillery

Troop, Battery or Company     57 Reserves Regimental Number 48464

Rank Gunner

Name      Piper A.

Age 30    Total Service [4 years, 2 months]

  • Date of Arrival at Hospital as an admission
  • AS a transfer (state where from) 13.12.18 Military Hospital Fargo [Larkhill, Sailsbury Plain, Wiltshire]

Date of discharge to duty                        15.1.19

Date of discharge by change of disease

Date of discharge as an invalid

Date of death

Date of transfer (state where to)        (Name of Hospital to be given)

No. of days under treatment 19 months. 36 days.

To be filled in by the Medical Officer in charge of the case in accordance with para.14.A.C.I. 462 0f 1917

Date of onset of disease or injury March /17.

Disease or injury                      Hysteria

Operations

Result of operation

Brief notes on case with complications in order of occurrence-:

Blown up at Salonica March/17: afterwards stammered badly. Treated by hypnosis in [hospital] in Malta, only slightly improved. On [admission] here stammer very bad, almost speechless. Cured in 20 minutes by psychotherapy. Fit to return to civil employment.

 

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