Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-08
SC|E NCE IS RECLA|M|NG MUT|LATEO
 SOLDIERS
French Have Delicate Little Instruments for Measuring Powers for Carpentering or Other Trades.

PARIS, Sept-A number of re- markable scientific instruments for measuring exactly the efficiency of a wounded soldier to perform some new line of useful work, have been put in operation at the Belgian Military Insti- tute at Port Billez, France, for the re- education of mutilated soldiers. While the outer world regards Belgium as prostrate under the iron hand if Ger many, it is striking tribute to the vitality of the country that it has been able to establish such institutions outside of the country.
 Here at a small town between Paris and Rouen, 1,500 wounded Belgian soldiers, most of whom fought in the battle of the Yser, are being made over for some useful occupation. A park of 600 acres has been donated, and extensive buildings have been erected. So that Belgium, prostrate as it is, has an establishment compar- ing with the best English and French institutions
 The Belgians have always been famous for fine mechanical appliances, and here they have shown their genius in this line by the use of seven or eight new scientific instruments which measure precisely the efficiency of a wounded man. Doctor Nyms, of the medical staff of the institute, has furnished the following sketch of these instruments and how they mea- cnra a uonndad t-orly
 Recent studies on the efficiency of workmen have shown the enormous force wasted through the non-adoption of working conditions to the work mans capacity for production, and the chief object of efficiency researches is to suppress all useless effort and establish precise conditions for secur- ing the best results. When the study concerns mutilated soldiers, it ac- quires a new value A certain loss of effort may be tolerated when a work man is normal. But it is not so with the mutilated, whose function powers are diminished, and ro whom it is in dispensable that every particle of work of which they are capable should be made integrally available"
 After explaining the method of charts and tracings employed, Dr. Nyms describes the instruments which measure the energy of the wounded, in part, as follows:
 'First-the arthrodynamometer: It permits the measurement in degrees of the angles formed by the fiexion and extension of the Forearm. It is particularly useful in studying partial ankylosis. A dynamometer attached to this instrument measures in kilo- grams the force that a wounded man can exert
 'Second-the lime, with a cylinder giving a chronological register. This registers the impulsive force of the right hand, of the left hand; the pres sure of the right hand. of the left hand. These are compared with the standards showing in kilograms what the maximum force would be, thus showing what is lacking and what needs to be corrected.
 Third-a varlop, with registering cylinder and electric signal, which permits us to study the work in car of force by the lime.
 "Fourth-the cheirographe, which restores the mobility of the fingers and registers their power Of work
 "Fifth-a spirometer. with eudio- meter. a cardiograph and a pneumo- lafn Gfa nd permit the study of all the physiolo- gical phenomena bearing on workman ship, and indicating when work is too heavy and should be limited by addi- tional periods of rest"
 The use of these novel instruments is, of course. only one phase of the extensive work being done here, which includes the training of architects, sculptors, painters in art and trade, carpenters, shOemakers, saddlers, ma chinists. typewriters. printers, engrav- CTS, linotypers, photographers. and a vast number of other Occupations.
 Men who have lost a leg were thought at first to be adapted to some work not requiring the man to stand. But this has been found to be mis- take. and one-legged men are now con sidered we'll adapted to standing at printing-case, or working at a carpen- ter's bench However. most of the one-legged and one-armed men show preference to becoming tailors and shoemakers. They are also much op-