The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-09-12
Wounded Limbs
Are Re-Educated
fBy United Press,

- NV ANAANG&ONu
tBs rnii-d Press, ~
London, Aug. 17.-fBy maiD This
war uncaged demons of destruction
heretofore unknown to warfare.
To combat them surgery has reor-
ganized its technique.
Great has been the development of
wars power to tear down. greater by
far is the progress of science in the
work of rebuilding. A concrete proof
of this is shown in the record of the
huge Military Ortopedic hospital here
with which the American Red Cross
orthopedic hospitals are allied. Three
fourths of the patients in these insti-
tutions are being made fit to re-enter
the army in some form OF service.
The remarkable achievements of
surgery have been no more striking
than the results obtained by the slow.
patient processes of orthopedic treat
ment. In fact the latter has made
gains even more spectacular than those
of surgery, for orthopedic science.
which before the war was a more or
less obscure and humble little brother
to surgery. has grown almost over
night to full stature
Began With Children.
The word orthopedic literally means
making child straight The science
began with the treatment of children's s
reformities- Now it is applied to re-
storing TO use soldiers arms and legs
which have been stiffened or distorted
by wounds. accidents and disease.
The problem OF the war cripple is
met first by ingenious surgery and ma
nipulation and the careful education OF
men in the use OF disabled limbs: sec
ond. by training disabled soldiers in
the trade for which their disablen,ent
least handicaps them. The halfway
station between the two is the gym
uasium.''
As the visitor follows the officer III
rector into the Military Orthopedic
gymnasium. he sees a score of sol
diers seated on benches. sergean;
at desk in "a far corner rises as the
director approaches. .AII ready. sir
he reports The director turns to the
men with brisk Carry on
Slowly the men move out into the
room and take their places before the
various pieces of apparatus. Some go
up to the big adjustable horizontal
beams which stretch across the room
and place their hands on a beam about
shoulder high. One approaches long
strip of canvas with broad stripes
running from end TO end. A pale boy
stretches out on mat-coyered bench
and. motionless. gazes up at the cell
ing. The majority range themselves
along the walls at ladders. climbing
ropes and hand grasps. No one speaks
Apparently there Is no movement Alb
solute quiet prevails.
II is a strange sight for the visitor.
A gym to him has meant a place for
vigorous exercise and noisy games.
Here everyone seems to be perfectly
motionless except the soldier on the
striped canvas. who with g1eat effort
and infinite caution is attempting TO
move along one of the black lines
He is attempting to teach = sheu-shat-
tered foot to walk again.
The visitor was taken by an Ameri.
can army surgeon into the massage
and electric treatment room. spa
cious ward where n dozen or mora sol
diers were sitting quietly while nurses
massaged and worked over their in
juries. The young women. kindly SYM
pathetic. smiled always and talked en-
couragingly to the patients. Psychol.
ogy of encouragement Is we'll under.
stood and carried ont in this HOSPITAL.
In this hospital each patients case
is carefully studied and a general plan
of individual treatment is mapped out.
Several operations may be necessary.
and by means of the N-rav the sur
geons note carefully the patient; pro-
gress. Thousands OF men are heinz
rehabiiitated who before the war
would have been discarded as Grip
pies.
After patient has progressed Ia
such point that his injured arm or
leg has begun to function. he is really
for the most interesting part. 10 him.
of his treatment work in the co-caile,l
curative workshops, uniqra ana
highly important feature o: the alili-
tary Ortnopedis hospital.