Sir Robert Jones realised that pu useless exercises on dummy machines were boring an diseoura ing to the soldier already depressed bs" weeks amd months of pain and ganized workshops. where was set to do useful work provided the particular exercise he sical condition of the men ing. "Also must mention the magni-agent' work in plastic surgery dont at Sideup by Sir Harold. Gillies, vers old friend of mine—here Sir Harold and his "star transformed hideous deformed faces into normal ordinary human beings, often taking up_to two years over a single case 'St. Dunsians Hospital in Regent': Park will live beyond our generation and hundreds of blinded. warriors Will bless the day they entered its doors. The hospitals for limbless soldiers at Roehampton and Erskin House, Glasgow, and the home at Richmond for paralysed and incur able soldiers are well known to all who lived in the times of the Great War of 1914 to 1918 and need no explanation, Thus T have endeavoured in a very short space 10 explain how medicine in war time rose from failure and chaos to triumph and success in four short years and there ig no doubt whatever the medicine and surgery ay whole derived enormous benefits from the great amount of research investigation that those years of gory of the brain, the chest, fra tures, blood transfusion, orthopaedies, anaesthetics were all the direct seqtience to the emergency work necessitated by the Great War of 1914-1918, Truly out of evil cometh Hood,
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