Show TRENCH WARFARE SHATTERS NERVES horror of it all has lasting effect on victims of the ti tanio conflict WEIRD SCENES ARE DESCRIBED or dr E murray auer of philadelphia says treah trench dreams of tho the wounded bare horrors horror of modern battles phil philadelphia adel ehla that tho the horrors of trench warfare with its sudden alarms at night the bursting of at shells and the burying of men by mine explosions aavo a lasting effect on the men who undergo them is the conclusion reached by dr E murray auer ot of philadelphia pa who for some time was attached to the twenty second general hospital of the british eap exp expeditionary force somewhere in franco in a paper which was read recently before the philadelphia neurological society and which appears in the current issue of the medical record doctor auer gives the results ot of his observations ions in practically all of the cases which were observed by doctor auer the soldiers received no appreciable physical injury the effect being purely mental one such instance cited by the physician was found in a boy nineteen years old this boy had been tor for kahree days under a sustained and heavy deavy shell fire at the end of 0 that time he was threatened by hw his sergeant with tor for sleeping while on sentry duty this led to an examination and the sending of the boy to the hospital ile ho wasaji was in a stupor forten for ten days the same was true of another soldier who had seen his bis chum blown to pieces during the time of their coma which in some cases lasted more than week the soldiers gave tho the impression that they again were living through the experiences which had bad caused the stupor to come on this was evidenced by their terrified expressions pres press lons they crouched started and stared wildly when spoken to ono one such man roso rose from his bed in the middle of the night and recited in a ono sided conversation his bis experience of a charge arid and burial by a mine explosion pl oslon and then relapsed into his atu porous state another result of shock according to doctor auers observations Is a continued shaking of the entire body accompanied by various pains and unusually un severe headaches in some cases this shaking has been observed to last several days and even weeks although in most instances its duration Is a few hours in one instance this trembling camo came after a soldier had twice been burled buried in a mine explosion pl oslon had been through a charge and under heavy bombardment in a trench and finally was waa hit by a place ol of rock which while not injuring him knocked him down in his hie case the tremor ot of the head was marked and lasted for or some time temporary loss of memory Is a common comman thing with the men who have been through some extremely trying period or who have suffered a sudden shock in such auch instances tho the recovery ot at memory Is as sudden as its loss one such soldier after being near a shell which exploded could remember nothing that happened to him until he bo camo came to himself walking along a lane s some ome time later another man in the hospital thought himself back in the trenches and became violent moving his cupboard about as though it were a machine gun and pointing it at his en enemies ewles when ho he suddenly returned to a normal state he could remember nothing of his bis experience one of at the most common and at the same time most pitiful of the many m mental results of the struggle Is the inability to sleep soundly and recurrence of so bo called trench dreams it is not uncommon doctor auer says to see soldiers sold lorB start from their beds in the middle of the night crying out and weeping the bodies bathed in perspiration ns as they dream of being chased by germans with bayonets of being burled buried under debris following a mine explosion and of losing tho the trench in a fog and being unable to get back tho the fear which is commonly found is not the kind which a layman would ex expect pact tho the soldiers do not foar fear injury to themselves they are rather afraid ot of doing something wrong a tear fear of an emergency in which one may fall or loso lose tho the of tile ha comrades lit in ono instance tho the pa talcut was afraid to go to sloop tor for fear ho he would not awake and deafness aro are frequently found but one ona of tho the most unusual of tho the phenomena in this connection is tho the presence of photophobia tho the fear of looking in many instances men are found who complain that they cannot soo sec in such eccli instances when their eyes aro are opened tor for them thoy they can see without any difficulty ono instance of this camo came as tho the result of a trench dream in which tho soldier again lived through hla his bu rial hat by a mine explosion four before befaro when lie awoke lie he corn com that ho he could not sea BOO and imagined that hla his sight eight had boon been lost rd an a result of at the explosion whoa when tho eyelids were raised ho he could see na as well as over ever |