Alice Fitzgerald Collection]]> Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives]]> Carry On: A Magazine on the Reconstruction of Disabled Soldiers and Sailors]]> Carry On became the official publication of the Surgeon General Office’s new Reconstruction Division. It contained articles on a wide range of topics, including the issue of nervous disorders. The publication began circulating through Adolf Meyer’s professional correspondences as early as September of 1918, just before the war ended.]]> Caption on back of print: "Workshop - Miss Katherine Staples, Miss Marie Bland, Re-Aides." [reconstruction aides]
Caption on back of print: "Recreation room. The first band concert. The outlook on harbour is beautiful."]]> Item 110537_02
Item 110537_04]]> Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives]]>
Document 1: A Sample Screening Test. (Adolf Meyer Collection)

Document 2: Instructions to Examiners in Neurology and Psychiatry Relative to the Preparation of Statistical Data. (Adolf Meyer Collection)

Document 3: Map of training camps for psychiatric screening of troops (Adolf Meyer Collection). This map would have provided Meyer and his fellow inspectors an overview of facilities where screening was taking place.

Document 4: A student’s handwritten report of his brief training at the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic (Adolf Meyer Collection, Report from Dr. Stevenly to Adolf Meyer). The leaders of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (NCMH) reached out to Meyer to provide a short course for the personnel recruited to examine troops. Other training centers included the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, the Manhattan State Hospital, the State Psychopathic Hospital (in Ann Arbor), and the New York Neurological Institute.
]]> Document 2: Bailey, Pearce
Document 3: National Committee for Mental Hygiene
Document 4: Stevenly]]> Adolf Meyer collection]]> Document 2: 8 leaves ; 12.5 x 8 in.
Document 3: 1 map ; 21 x13.5 in.
Document 4: 2 leaves ; 11 x 9 in.]]> Document 2: Item 238632
Document 3: Item 238629
Document 4: Item 238620]]> Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives]]> Adolf Meyer collection]]> Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives]]>
Many doctors in America learned about the condition and current treatment methods from the British before they entered the war. Here, Doctor Frederick Walker Mott apprises Meyer of the condition and treatment from his vantage point in London. Mott was one of Meyer’s English colleagues in pathology and psychiatry. At the time of his letter, he was treating and studying shell shock patients at the Maudsley Hospital in London. Later that month, he would open his doors to Americans touring British facilities in preparation for their own work on the problem in American troops.
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