The mental effects of battle

‘War Neuroses’, 1917

Image: Moving Image and Sound Collection, Wellcome Library, London

This film, taken at Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, and Seale-Hayne, Dartmoor, England, shows the various symptoms of 18 British soldiers suffering from 'shell-shock' and their treatment by Royal Army Medical Corp neurologists during World War I.

The film is available to watch on the Wellcome Library website.

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