Medical treatment for disabled soldiers


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ABSTRACT 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. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via


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for Disabled Soldiers_ . _Nature_ 98, 293 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098293a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 14 December 1916 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098293a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE


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