Psychiatric battle casualties: An intra- and interwar comparison

War neuroses and Arthur Hurst: a pioneering medical film about the treatment of psychiatric battle casualties.

From 1917 to 1918, Major Arthur Hurst filmed shell-shocked patients home from the war in France. Funded by the Medical Research Committee, and using Pathé cameramen, he recorded soldiers who suffered from intractable movement disorders as they underwent treatment at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Netley and undertook programs of occupational therapy at Seale Hayne in Devon. As one of the earlie...

The crush syndrome in battle casualties.

Acute military psychiatric casualties from the war in Iraq.

BACKGROUND The view that most military personnel evacuated from war zones are suffering from combat stress reactions, or are otherwise traumatised by the horrors of war, has an impact on all aspects of military psychiatry. AIMS To delineate the reasons for psychiatric aeromedical evacuation from Iraq from the start of build-up of UK forces in January 2003 until the end of October that year, 6...

Type, severity, location, and timing of battle casualties in a Croatian Army brigade during an offensive action in 1992.

AIM To analyze the type, severity, location, and timing of casualties in a Croatian Army brigade during an offensive action against enemy forces of about two infantry battalions timely prepared for defense. METHODS Casualties were analyzed according to bilateral manpower and equipment conditions, morale, time of the day, weather conditions, type of ground where the action took place, quality ...

Comparison of intra oral manifestations of pregnant and non-pregnant women: an observational case-control study

Introduction: Hormonal changes during pregnancy are along with oral changes such as pregnancy gingivitis, halitosis, pregnancy tumor and teeth erosion. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the prevalence of these oral changes in pregnant and non-pregnant women.  Methods and materials: In this observational, analytic, case-control study, 124 pregnant women and 124 non-pregnant women refe...