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Show ARMY MEDICAL BOARD TO PLAN STANDARDS WASHINGTON, March 6. The war department de-partment announced today the organization organi-zation of a special medical board headed by Colonel George K. P.u.shncll, retired, and in'-lmlim; several famous Amerlym medical speeiulistB, now in the army service, serv-ice, to review the whole ouestlon of remedial defects In soldiers, both as to di:i:rnoslR and methods of I re:i tmenl . The result will be a standardization of tiie defects for which men may be rejected re-jected by local boards under tiie selective service law. or aceejHed for limited military mili-tary service. I'p to this lime there h:is been 1,-refjt confusion amontf the boards j in tids rei;;ird. The bo;ird also will devise standard methods of tre;t t men t bv jinny suri;eons ill seekirm to correet physb al det'ei ts in the men of the army. |