Sir Robert Jones realised that purposeless exercises on dummy machines were boring and discourage ing to the soldier already depressed by weeks and months of pain. and suffering in hospital—instead he organized workshops where each man was set to do useful work which provided the particular exercise he required, and the rapid improvement in the mentality as well as the physical condition of the men was ara; ing. Also I must mention the magni-Scent work in plastic surgery done at Sidcup by Sir Harold Gillies, a very old friend of mine—here Sir Harold and his staff transformed hideous deformed faces into normal ordinary human beings, often taking up to two years over a single case.
St. Dunstans Hospital in Regent's 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 incurable soldiers are well known to all who lived in the times of the Great War of 1914 to 1918 and need no ež- planation.
Thus I have endeavoured in a very short space to explain how medicine in war time rose from failure and chaos to triumph and success in four short years and there is no doubt whatever the medicine and surgery as whole derived enormous benefits from the great amount of research and investigation that those years of war produced. The foundations for all our modern advances in the sur-gory of the brain. the chest, fractures, blood transfusion, orthopæ- dies, anaesthetics were all the direct sequence to the emergency work necessitated by the Great War of 1914-1918. Truly out of evil cometh good.
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