Lewis R. Yealland

Yealland was born in 1884 and died in 1954. He was a Canadian born therapist who moved to the U.K. to practice medicine during the First World War. He was at the forefront of experimental shock treatment to deal with shell shock. He qualified as a doctor from the University of Western Ontario in 1912. During the war he worked at the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic in London where he mainly dealt with cases of hysteria.

RCC8008 Hysterical Disorders of Wartime (Yealland)