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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