Shell Shock How Was It caused ? Shell Shock was one of the most deadly digenous for any army person to have to be told that they suffer from shell shock. They knew they would be different when they come home from the battle some of the soldiers even had to leave because they could function on there own. Shell shock was first off doctors thought that it was because of the bombs but then there was reports of shell shock when people were not on the trench’s. Shell shock was caused by a shock in the brain when soldiers was close by a bomb or got hit with one the reason this is because of the sound waves cause you brain to get confused and they send shock waves to the rest of your body to cause damage (2). The first ever cause was a range of perceptual abnormalities such as loss of hearing and slight and was sensation to load noise and flashing lights.Some of the aftermath is people could become blind or lost of memory the most extreme cases …show more content…
Shell shock took the britain army by complete surprise. The britain doctor were struggling to treat the soldiers in the army. Doctors were sent in to come and try to figure out the disorder. Six months into the war there was a 16 percent of the army judge to be suffering of shell shock. Similar percentage appeared in the French and German on the West Front. By the end of 1915 the british army had around 13,000 soldiers have the disorder called shell shock. So they contacted Myers was an army doctor who came into the war to treat patients of shell shock.Myers through shell shock was not a physical disorder but a mental disorder. After a while of study each of his patients, Myer then started opening special shell shock hospitals. And he then introduced Arthur Houghton to the picture to help him find a cure for these soldiers that was highly affected by the disorder. One of the main hospital that they created was The Royal Military
Summary In “Said a Bird in the Midst of a Blitz…” Philip Nel scrutinizes how the war molded Dr. Seuss. In this essay, the author examines how Dr. Seuss’s experience as a cartoonist for the newspaper, PM, showed up in his career later on as a writer for children’s books. Seuss served as a political cartoonist and successful advertising artist.
The Hindenburg was a luxury airship, from nazi Germany. This "Titanic of the skies" (no pun intended) was destroyed by a flash fire in 1937 while landing in New Jersey after making its 10th transatlantic crossing. Thirty-five of the 97 people aboard and one ground crew member were killed when the blimp burst into flames and was rapidly consumed by the fire.
One of the major diseases that almost permanently affected the soldiers was Shell Shock which was due to constant exposure to horrific scenes of death. Source A1 is an extract from a historian writing for the First World war aimed at students, focuses on ...
In the early 1900’s the United States’ medical field was stagnant causing many deaths in wartime. The majority of deaths in war times were often caused by diseases that were incurable. The United States medical field had to grow to current needs in war but it grew very slowly. The United States Army Ambulance Service was established on June 23, 1917 and the Sanitary Corps established one week later on the 30th. (David Steinert). The Sanitary Corps quickly expanded to nearly 3,000 officers during World War I but, this field was still much smaller than any other
Operation Linebacker II, also known as the Christmas Day bombings, were a sequence of atrocious bombings over North Vietnam during the Vietnam War from December 18, 1972 and lasted 11 days through December 29, 1972 arranged by former President Nixon. President Nixon ordered these bombings to destroy the belligerents’ complexes and push the North Vietnamese government into peace talks that would hopefully result in a cease fire treaty. The use of B-52 bombers and other heavy military weapons instead of small aircraft and other small military weapons, made The Christmas Day bombings were the largest bombing campaign of the Vietnam War. These bombings caused many civilian casualties and had many repercussions against the United States. Many soldiers were killed, aircraft was shot down, aircraft suffered heavy damage, innocent civilian were killed, and many American soldiers were taken for prisoner but later released under treaty. This paper will explain what happened before, during, and after the Christmas Day bombings through Nixon’s own words and newspaper articles. This paper will al...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), originally associated with combat, has always been around in some shape or form but it was not until 1980 that it was named Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and became an accredited diagnosis (Rothschild). The fact is PTSD is one of many names for an old problem; that war has always had a severe psychological impact on people in immediate and lasting ways. PTSD has a history that is as long and significant as the world’s war history - thousands of years. Although, the diagnosis has not been around for that long, different names and symptoms of PTSD always have been. Some physical symptoms include increased blood pressure, excessive heart rate, rapid breathing, muscle tension, nausea, diarrhea, problems with vision, speech, walking disorders, convulsive vomiting, cardiac palpitations, twitching or spasms, weakness and severe muscular cramps. The individual may also suffer from psychological symptoms, such as violent nightmares, flashbacks, melancholy, disturbed sleep or insomnia, loss of appetite, and anxieties when certain things remind them such as the anniversary date of the event (Peterson, 2009).
To conclude, many individuals and their families experienced severe physical and mental trauma as a result of the calamitous Gallipoli Campaign due to the extremely high and unexpected amount of casualties, the unprecedented harshness of prolonged trench warfare, the technology of the artillery and the psychological trauma that such violent combat induces. The general logistics of the campaign including the sad fact that bodies were not able to be returned to their loved ones. As well as the era of the campaign as so many suffered psychological wounds that were unable to be treated.
An outcome of World War I was a new medical disorder classified as Shell Shock. Shell Shock is a medical disorder developed to describe the symptoms that soldiers developed without a probable or obvious lesion as the cause after serving time on the war front. Shell Shock is one of the most prominent injuries of World War I; the symptoms varied among each soldier, treatments were still being developed, and doctors were still trying to understand the severity of the disorder. The symptoms soldiers described are due to the stress they encountered while they served on the front line. Shell Shock is a condition that soldiers have begun to develop after serving in the war.
Steinbeck states, “Under extended bombardment or bombing, the nerve ends are literally beaten. The eardrums are tortured by blast and the eyes ache from the constant hammering. This is how you feel after a few days of constant firing. Your skin feels thick and insensitive. There is a salty taste in your mouth.
Finding Nemo is the story of a clownfish, Marlin, who’s only son gets taken by Australian scuba divers. Marlin, even with plenty of grief over losing his wife and other babies, goes through great lengths, fears and people to get his son back. He meets other animals and learns from them the importance of living your life and not worrying about the past as he tries to get his son Nemo back.
Here at the Chelsea Naval Hospital, the influx of patients arriving home from the war inflicted with "battle wounds and mustard gas burns," has created a shortage of physicians and it is becoming increasingly difficult to fight this influenza. Even our own physicians are falling ill from the disease and dying within hours of its onset. Today I received a letter from Dr. Roy, a friend and fellow physician at Camp Devens, who describes a similar situation:
The Northern and Southern medical departments were not prepared for removing wounded soldiers from the battlefield and transferring them to a hospital. Hospital did their best to care for the sick and wounded. Things such as Blood typing, X-rays, antibiotics, and modern medical tests and procedures were imaginary. Diarrheal diseases affected almost every soldier and killed hundreds of thousands of men (National Museum of Health and Medicine, 2014).
The war scarred the soldiers permanently, if not physically then mentally. After the war the soldiers usually never recovered from the war. Two of the most common side affects of the war were shell shock and stir crazy. When suffering from shell shock a soldier’s brain doesn’t function properly and the man is a “vegetable”. This means the man is alive but he can’t do anything because he is in a state of shock because of the war. Stir crazy is a mental illness caused by the firing of so many bullets that when no bullets are heard by the victim he goes insane. Everyone was scared to go to war when it started. Young recruits were first sent because the veterans knew they were going to come back dead. "When we run out again, although I am very excited, I suddenly think: “where’s Himmelstoss?” Quickly I jump back into the dug-out and find him with a small scratch lying in a corner pretending to be wounded.” (P 131) Even the big men like Himmelstoss are scared to go fight. They too go through the mental illnesses like stir crazy and shell shock. “He is in a panic; he is new to it too.
Does a soldier have wounds that a doctor cannot see? Sometimes the most harmful effects of war are emotional wounds. Hemingway displays the theme that war causes emotional damage in his novel The Sun Also Rises. Some veterans suffer from emotional pain as a result of war, whereas others are able to grow from the experience. Hemingway’s characters exemplify the effects of combat because World War I had a negative impact on them; the veterans lead meaningless lives filled with masculine uncertainty.
Apart of becoming a new patient at a dental office is taking an x-ray and some may have question along with taking an x-ray, like “will I be affected by the x-ray?” or “will I get cancer?”, “how long will it take” “are x-ray’s safe?”, the list goes on and on. So in this paper we will talk about different types of radiation affects such as affects on children and pregnant women as well as some things that may help reduce some of the radiation that may harm the human body.