Neurological sequelae of captivity.

Date:
1946
  • Film

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Description

Depicts a variety of neurological syndromes "resulting from captivity" observed in British and Indian P.O.Ws repatriated from Japanese prison camps in south-east Asia after the end of the Second World War. Clinical signs and symptoms depicted include contractures and deformities of the hands; local anaesthesias; defects of vision and optic atrophy; loss of knee and ankle reflexes; facial nerve weakness, and dressing apraxia. Taken at 145 I.G.B.H. (IT) Hospital Town, Bangalore, India.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1946.

Physical description

1 film reel (7 min. ) : sound, black and white, 16 mm

Notes

Given to the Trust in October 1989 by Dr. John Walters (Newton Abbott, Devon) from his private collection of medical films. Walters was former consultant physician to the London Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Lecturer in Medicine at King's College Hospital.

Creator/production credits

C.K.S. Productions with the Directorate of Services Kinematography for the Medical Directorate (India).

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