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Barbed Wire Disease: A Psychological Study of the Prisoner of War. Translated from the German, with Additions by the Author [1919]

Digitised by Google Books from the collection of the University of Chicago, see Source below. If necessary, click on Show More, below. Note, pages 17-18 are out of order, and appear as the last pages of text at the back of the digital file. With an Introductory Chapter by S A Kinnier Wilson, F R C P London and a Frontispiece by Miss E Fortesque-Brickdale The author was Dr Adolf Lukas Vischer (1884-1974), a Swiss surgeon. The original publication in the German language was Die Stacheldraht-Krankheit. Beiträge zur Psychologie des Kriegsgefangenen (Zürich : Rascher & Cie., 1918.) This was Heft 5 of the series Schweizer Schriften für allgemeines Wissen , see Front cover image https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2020/01/16/barbed-wire-disease-during-the-first-world-war/vischer_snl/ Article: https://www.academia.edu/52478170/Dr_Adolf_Lukas_Vischer_1884_1974_and_barbed_wire_disease Dr Adolf Lukas Vischer (1884-1974) and 'barbed-wire disease by Avi Ohry and Zahava Solomon 2014, Journal of Medical Biography 22 (1) 16-18. This states “During World War I, Vischer and other Swiss surgeons were sent by the Italian Red Cross (ICRC) to serve at field hospitals. He visited and worked at POW camps in

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