In connection with the Canadian medical services overseas, Mr. Norman Rogers recently stated that "we are taking full advantage in this war of the services of science and the skill of the specialist" We expressed his gratification at the response of doctors and nurses, "including the most widely known specialists in the Dominion" to the call of war. "Much was learned in the last war of the impact of active service on the soldier, of the wounds which he suffers in' his body and of those other wounds which cannot be seen, but which can be no less damaging in their effects,"
Due to the lessons learned between 1914 to 1918, Canadian medical science can face this new ordeal with much deeper knowledge of actual needs. As an instance the Minister of National Defence stated that "in order to provide facilities for taking care of injuries to the brain and conditions of nervous disorder which resulted from war strain, so prevalent in the last war, the Department has decided
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