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Show SHELL FIRE SHOCK CAN WRECK MIND Brave Soldier in Hospital Without a Scratch Is as a CMld in Intellect. Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS, Dec. 26. From the number of technical communications that are being submitted liom time to time to learned bodies in Paris, it is evident, that the injuries received in the present pres-ent war have presented various interesting inter-esting problems to the medical proies-sion, proies-sion, uo less than to the operating surgeons. sur-geons. Cases have, tor instance, occurred, oc-curred, and these not a few, in which soldiers have been absolutely incapaci-! incapaci-! tated, rendered utterly helpless, in iact. without having as much as a scratch to exhibit to the doctors who are rendering ren-dering such invaluable aud heroic service serv-ice to the armies in the field. And the notable feature of such cases is that they are practically all clue to the nervous shock proaucea oy snen lire. One military hospital "has specially set aside a ward lor the study and treatment of such exceptional and, as one micht almost say, phenomenal cases. In that ward there are four patients pa-tients whose condition is cjuite abnormal ab-normal One is a corporal ot infantry, who distinguished himself particulariv cm the battlefield. When, amid the storm of shell fire that assaiied his company, he alone was left unhurt, he had the courage to save his officer at the imminent risk of his own life, and was actually named in army orders for his conspicuous bravery. But at what a cost to himself was" his heroic deed performed! Tho poor fellow has' forgotten for-gotten all about the incident. His memory is completely cone. He does not remember having been on the battlefield bat-tlefield at alb He does not remember having ever seen the Germans. He has no notion whatever as to where he is. The hospital staff has had to undertake the re-education of the man, as if he were a child, and, thanks to patience, his recollection ia beginning to awaken. " In the same ward with the corpora! are three other soldiers whose cases present exceptional features a Serjeant Ser-jeant major, a private in an iutantrv regiment, and a Zouave. The two first na'i'.ci are quite dea' an! dumb, ;snd tii-1 third i.- sr.-oimeiv b!ir--;. ,',-' though in none of their on?i;s is aiw injury observable in the oreans of either eith-er Mr or ryp. H'.'re again, however, as th1 rc.J,m of careful treatment, their maladies h'tvn been checked, aui thev are in a fair way to recovery. " j |