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Show SURGEONS DO GREAT WORK, Rehabilitation of Wounded Soldiers Seems Little Short of Miraculous to a Civilian. Foster Debevoise of South Orleans, N. J., on a recent tour through France and Englund, visited the armies at the front, and speaks with enthusiasm of their indomitable spirit and unfailing hopefulness. In commenting he speaks on the work done for wounded soldiers : "The men In English cities, of whom I saw hundreds, wdfhout legs or arms, or with reconstructed faces, and those In hospitals In process of being mended, mend-ed, all had the same words: 'If only I could go back again!' And this brings me to another wonderful thing, and that is the way the hospitals are performing miracles. When finally, sometimes after months and months of treatment, the reconstructing process Is finished, the men are taught tradea and placed in positions so that they are enabled to take up their lives again with a large degree of happiness. Straps operate as muscles on artificial legs and arms; and I have seen such men swing a hammer, play golf, knit, or work nt lathes. It is almost incredible incred-ible wmat Is being done. Hats oft to the doctors, I sny !" The United States government will apply the same methods of reconstruction recon-struction to those of our boys that ara disabled or crippled. Marion Couth-t ouy Smith. |