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The Lancet compares "shell shock" to "hysteria."

1916

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The 1916 edition of The Lancet describes shell shock, saying it "only requires an acute storm to break on the nervous system (such as a bomb explosion or the death of comrades) for their self-control to vanish completely; and automatically their condition changes to what is popularly called hysteria."