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Identifier: 14031070R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: The disabled soldier
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: McMurtrie, Douglas C. (Douglas Crawford), 1888-1944, author
Subjects: Veterans Disabled Persons Rehabilitation, Vocational Amputees Artificial Limbs World War I
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of coordinating thework and making investigations and plans for the future. There are four stages in the treatment of the disabledsoldier: (1) medical treatment; (2) provision of artificiallimbs and functional re-education; (3) vocational adviceand vocational re-education; and (4) placement. Ofthese activities, the first two are controlled by the im-perial military authorities and are conducted on uniformlines. With regard to vocational and economic rehabili-tation, on the contrary, there is no general direction givenby any central authority; the re-education schools areof varying types and most unevenly distributed; thework is in the hands of local and private or semi-privateagencies; it is done mostly by volunteers and is not evensupervised by the imperial government. However, in spite of the absence of any general systemof organization, there is a complete unity of purpose andthe work is everywhere carried on in accordance withcertain universally accepted and officially sanctioned
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At Work Again—With Four Artificial Limbs. Germany sees to itthat her disabled soldiers are prepared for self-support ACROSS THE FIRING LINE 211 principles. These were formulated by Dr. Biesalski inthis way: 1. No charity, but work for the war disabled. 2. Disabled soldiers must be returned to their homesand to their old conditions; as far as possible, to theirold work. 3. The disabled soldier must be distributed amongthe mass of the people as though nothing had happened. 4. There is no such thing as being crippled, whilethere exists the iron will to overcome the handicap. 5. There must be the fullest publicity on this subject,first of all among the disabled men themselves. The possibility of rehabilitation is accepted as a creedby all the institutions working to this end, it is put inpractice, and the statement is that in ninety per cent,of the cases the desired results are attained. There is a fairly complete network of orthopedic homesdistributed all over the empire. Their number

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