The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-13

and knife and tools and with an object
like white swaddled derrick boom
hoisted up from him at a weird angle
which object, seen close, turns out TO be
tipped with toes. They're going to save
him good use Of it.
Jerry, the weaver, works his shuttle with
one hand, the other being his share of his
eountry's repayment of its Indebtedness
to the Lafayette estate. Weaving of the
sort needs two hands, but Jerry was wish
full to weave, so they made special loom
that works with one.
Both Jerry and Bill had "cafard" pretty
badly when they were admitted. In other
words, they had the blues in an acute
form. Their sole interest in life at the
time was longing to 60 back and reform
some more Huns; chronic impossible
wish, the doctors say, is what makes
Inconsistencies. The leather and the loom
were magical prescriptions.
Bill, who smoked a packetful of ciga-
rettes day in vain efforts to smudge out
the blues, got so interested the morning of
his first lesson that he forgot cigarettes
after smoking half of one When he can
be up on crutches he'll naturally gravi-
tate to the school, where sergeant with a
really fine human touch will manage, with
out firing questions at him, TO discover
Bills deepest ambition in the job line.
And Jerry the same
Each of these general hospitals is
equipped for all kinds Of cases. But each
specializes so to speak-in one
or two important kinds, and patients are
referred accordingly from the clearing
house.
Especially Careful of Hearts.
No. o is strong upon heart ailments.
Now, soldier in whom a serious heart
lesion has shown itself is obviously booked
for his S. c. d., and his future oeeupa-
ton must involve no physical strain. But
many army heart cases are merely func-
tional, and of these, many hearts, under
proper care, can be got working again as
well as ever or pretty nearly. Some Of
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thrash Huns with the best.
In cases of this latter kind the mental
element is strong. The heart really is err
ratio enough, but tell your man SO and
then leave him to brood and his heart
will get no better; it may get worse. Dis
tract him, on the other hand, interest him,
exercise him more and more as he can
stand it, and instead Of resigning himself
to a lot much worse than his actually
should be, and getting the hospital habit,
that man in very few weeks will be con-
WINGED that the doctor who sounded him
was an idiot; he'll be up and coming, and
will have to be watched. for fear lest he
overdo.
So at No. 9 the psycbotherapy of the
educational work has particular value.
The system they have, or had, for classi-
flying and arranging students eliminated
inquisitions and paper work very handily.
The doctor in charge of the ease began by
filing out notification card, with the pa
tents name, ward, &C., the class of work
of which he was physically capable, the
class of duty to which he was likely to be
returned if not discharged, the hours a
day he might meanwhile work, whether
his disability would permanently bar him
from his former occupation, &c.
That card turned in, the patient him
self was canvassed for the school. If it
looked good to him and he appeared to
investigate, the survey man, a young for
mer high school principal by the stimu-
lating name Of Coffeen, had heart to
heart talk with him, quietly filling in a
sort of case record as they talked.
Sergeant Coffeen didn't begin with a
quiz on vital statistics. Remember that