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OUR medical service is faced with a task which will try its skill and endurance to the utmost. “There are already,” says a writer in the Lancet (November 8, p. 867), “at the lowest estimate 50,000 disabled soldiers discharged from the military hospitals as unfitted for further service.” Every week will add to the number. It is true that these discharged men have been cured of their immediate wounds, but we must also realise that they are still convalescent. A large proportion stand in urgent need of a continued medical supervision. There are those whose lungs have been permanently damaged by poisonous gases or by the adhesions which follow healed wounds of the chest. In others the heart is injured and needs careful treatment; more frequently still, the nervous system has been thrown into a state of disorder which only nursing and skill will restore. There are thousands with damaged joints and muscles who can yet be brought back to take a full part in civil life if they receive the requisite attention.
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Medical Treatment for Disabled Soldiers . Nature 98, 293 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098293a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098293a0