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Major Arthur HurstMedical diseases of war1940, 2nd ed.Soon after the beginning of WWI, military doctors noticed that soldiers started to show neurological symptoms like dizziness, tremor, tinnitus, amnesia, weakness and headache. In most of these cases, there was no obvious physical injury. This condition became known as ‘shellshock’ or ‘war neurosis’. Some doctors believed it was caused by hidden brain injuries or carbon monoxide poisoning, while others accused the affected soldiers of malingering.

War Neurosis and Cultural Change in England, 1914-22: The Work of the War Office Committee of Enquiry into 'Shell-Shock' - Ted Bogacz, 1989

Hysteria, head injuries and heredity: 'shell-shocked' soldiers of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, Edinburgh (1914–24)

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His nerves gave way': Shell shock, history and the memory of the First World War in Britain - ScienceDirect

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The History of Poverty and Medicine in Leith

Shellshock in the College collections Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

His nerves gave way': Shell shock, history and the memory of the First World War in Britain - ScienceDirect

Medicine in World War Two: Wounds, Shellshock and Penicillin

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Unearthly Music', 'Howling Idiots', and 'Orgies of Amusement': The Soundscapes of Shell Shock at Edinburgh's Craiglockhart War Hospital, 1917–18, Nineteenth-Century Music Review