Dr. H. Lovett Cumming said he had had some experience witn cases of traumatic neurosis during the war, when he had charge of 150 or 200 beds at Fulham Military Hospital, Afterwajrds ¥e was one of the doctors in charge of the Chelsea Medical Pension Board, before which came a large number of nervous cases. In all instances of neurosis, under undue excitement or the heat of war, the shock was deferred. It might be be very much more severe through being delayed. In other instanc#s than these, a shock would be te! at once. In the case of a severe electric shock the whole body would be thrown into contractions and the person would ery out immediately.
Counsel—Would a 500-volt current, coming into contact w.th the clothes, if those clothes w ass through them ness Assuming that a man had no muscular contractions, showed no signs of shock at the time, and nu sign of shock next morning.—would those circumstances be consistent with the fact that he had received a severe electric shock They would not.
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