Very cruel was the lot of those who came out of the war with their faces shattered beyond human semblance. Heroes they were, and deserving from their fellow-citizens glances of pride and admiration. Yet—such is the weakness of our kuman nature—the average man could not look at them without an instinctive repulsion. Very comforting it is now to know that surgical science has come to the rescue, and in the great majority of cases can restore these men to a good appearance. The man with nose or mouth or chin blown away with shrapnel can have his face reconstructed; the airman or the infantryman victim of flame-throwers whose face has_ been burned away is a more difficult case. But even for him much can be done.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.