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He spoke bitterly, as was not unnatural. I made the acquaintance also in the Mess of a Medical Officer, named Rossi, in peace time a University Professor of Nervous Pathology, who was now in charge of a hospital for "nervosi," or shell-shock cases, four miles outside the town. One afternoon Jeune and I accepted an invitation to visit this hospital.
The stench of death was strong and awful. But our men who had escaped death and shell-shock kept their sanity through all this wilderness of slaughter, kept oh, marvelous! their spirit of humor, their faith in some kind of victory.
A grin ran around the dressing station, in which none joined more heartily than the first shell-shock man, waiting to be conveyed down the line. "They don't get by the old man often, nowadays," was Dr. Gregg's comment. "You don't often get cases like this, though, do you?" enquired Barry. "Not often.
Anyway, whether they are called the 'Hush Hushers' or 'Tanks, what the dickens are they? Everyone has been asking me if I have seen the 'Hush! hush! until I have felt compelled to advise them to take more water with it in future. At first I thought they were suffering from a unique form of shell-shock." "I haven't seen them," he said.
He didn't more than half understand her, which was fortunate, since he was rather horrified as it was. He put it down broadly as the same sort of nervous crisis that he had encountered in New York, a sort of hypersensitiveness due to the strain of war work the thing he had amused her by speaking of as shell-shock. "I think perhaps I know what has upset you to-night," he said uncomfortably.
I must see a fellow in my brigade who is in a shell-shock hospital in the Cotswolds. Isham's the name of the place. The two men exchanged glances. 'This looks like fate, said Bullivant. 'By all means go to Isham. The place where your work begins is only a couple of miles off. I want you to spend next Thursday night as the guest of two maiden ladies called Wymondham at Fosse Manor.
But it was otherwise with the cases of shell-shock. I can imagine no more wretched state of mind than that of a man whose nerves have just been unbalanced by close shaves from gun fire. There was in the same lysol-scented ward as myself a New Zealander in this condition.
The great lady wished very much to see him. But we could find nothing except that he had come back to this country. Official inquiry was made here and he was traced to Our Square. So I came to see him. Because he cannot speak for himself and will not allow his wife to tell his story it is part of the shell-shock which will wear off in time I came to speak for him."
And here is a printer from Lyon with shell-shock; medium-coloured, short and roundish and neat, full of humanity and high standards and domestic affection, and so polite, with eyes a little like a dog's.
All that the Waddingtons and Postlethwaites had done to him was to raise the bridge of his nose, and to thicken his lips slightly without altering their wide, vivacious twirl. He considered Barbara. "You're going to help him to write his book, aren't you?" "I hope so," said Barbara. "You've got a nerve. He pretty well did for Ralph Bevan. He's worse than shell-shock when he once gets going."
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