Psychogenic Illness in Regimental Practice

Mass psychogenic illness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

’Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness,[1] is “the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss or alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that are exhibited unconsciously have no corresponding organic aetiology.”[2] MPI is distinct from other c...

Epidemic psychogenic illness in an industrial setting--Pennsylvania.

Mass psychogenic illness following tetanus-diphtheria toxoid vaccination in Jordan.

In September 1998, more than 800 young people in Jordan believed they had suffered from the side-effects of tetanus-diphtheria toxoid vaccine administered at school; 122 of them were admitted to hospital. For the vast majority, their symptoms did not result from the vaccine but arose from mass psychogenic illness. The role played by the media, the children's parents, and the medical profession ...

Mass Psychogenic Illness: Demography and Symptom Profile of an Episode

Background. Mass psychogenic illness has been a recurrent phenomenon in Bangladesh over recent times. Objectives. This study was aimed at investigating the demographic characteristics and symptom profile of an outbreak of mass psychogenic illness occurring in a girls' high school. Methods and Materials. In 14 April 2013, a total of 93 students of a girls' high school suddenly developed various ...

Military Sanitation for Regimental Officers

Now that regimental officers are taught hygiene and that in Field Marshall Sir E. Wood's words the Army doctor is regarded as a " trusted staff officer to advise their chiefs how to guard the troops against the originating and spreading of disease," and when soldiers like Sir H. L. Smith-Dorrien write an introduction to books like this, there is hope that in future wars the British Army may be ...