Shell-Shock: E. E. Southard

Elmer Ernest Southard, circa 1918

Gift of Dr. Harvey Cushing to the Library of Harvard Medical School, 1932

Elmer Ernest Southard (1876-1920)
Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-Nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918, by E. E. Southard, with a bibliography by Norman Fenton, and an introduction by Charles K. Mills
(Boston : W. M. Leonard, 1919)

The full-text of Southard's work is available in the Medical Heritage Library at: 

http://www.archive.org/details/shellshockothern00sout

Harvard neuropsychiatrist, E. E. Southard, drew on the medical literature from the first three years of the war--English, French, Italian, Russian, German, and Austrian--to compile this study of nearly 600 cases related to shell-shock and other neurological trauma; the extensive bibliography on war and nervous diseases includes references to 1919.

In the introduction, Charles Karsner Mills draws a parallel between S. Weir Mitchell's neurological work deriving from the Civil War and Southard's research from the first World War.