New discases such as Shell Shock, Trench Fever, Trench Foot and especially that disabling mnalagy known in Army circles as D.A.H. were laboriously investigated new special hospitals, to the enormous benefit of the sufferers, To meet the enormous demand for doctors for all these services the British Medl= cal Association issued an appeal which was in all parts of Britain enthusiastically received, The appeal called for medical men under 40 for service with the troops; for medical men over 40 for service in hospitals: for medical men who remaining in it practices would give part of their time to military " work. and for medical men who would under fake part of the civil" work of Practitioners who were on service, In spite of the response of the Brit ish "doctors, at the end of nine months of war. the War OMee war il 2000 doctors" short "and this lefleieney was wisely made up by enrolling medical officers from the Dominions and the United States.
Equally serious was the shortage of trained nurses—targe number came {in contingents from overseas but the deficiency was chidly supplied by abandoning the tradition that wound= ced and sick soldiers must be nursed by trained and certificated murset and the wholesale employment the members of Voluntary. Aid Detachments both at home and abroad saved the situ partially—trained soon proved. thems the best trae profession, There is no time for me tw speak of the innumerable organizations that came into being for the care of the disabled British soldiers after his wounds were healed and he was able 10 be discharged from the General Hospital" where he had originally arrived from overseas. The science of Orthopiedics or the treatment, of deformities under the skilled directions of that master of this branch of surgery Sir Robert Jones, centhtsiastieally supported, and aided by the lay efforts of King Manoel of Portugal, did more for the wounded soldier than has ever been dreamt of by the lay public. "The great Orthopacdie hospital at Shepherd's Bush where cripples were transformed into ie ful citizens will ever be remem= bered by all those who passed through its wards.
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