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Identifier: CarryOnAug1918_851 (find matches)
Title: Carry On (periodical)
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Office of the Surgeon General, United States Army
Subjects: reconstruction rehabilitation therapy vocational therapy physical therapy American Red Cross
Publisher: Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine
Contributing Library: American Red Cross

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tractions inreconstruction work. A clear brain and one good hand are therequisites, and the courses at Fort McPherson, Walter Reed,and Fort McHenry are gaining daily in popularity. our arms. The security of their dependentsis as vital to the morale of our military forcesas is the physical condition of the men. And so when the Government, by the pas-sage of the War Risk Insurance Bill, providedin generous measure for the support of thefighters family, it performed a duty as obviousas the cause for which the country is giving itsmen, its money, and its resources. This Act, complex to the laymen in some of its technicalphases, is simply an instrument whereby theGovernment aims to dispel the one fear of itsfighting men: that their families are going tobe dependent on others while they are away.Through it his Government assures the soldierand sailor that, while it may not be possiblein every case to replace the individual com-batant in precisely the same situation he occu- No. 2 R R O N II
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CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY Here is a striking example of a scientific field in which thehandicapped soldier can find employment. Chemistry and phar-macy require principally brains, and courses will be given to ourreturned men under competent teachers. This is one methodof applying reconstruction to actual war work in both thearmy and navy as Canada and our Allies are doing. pied before his country called him, yet at anyrate his family, as well as himself, will be savedfrom a humiliating dependence on others forthe necessities of life. In many instances, I believe, the returnedsoldier, although physically handicapped willfind his way back to industrial and social life,intellectually and financially stronger than when he left it. The country has unlimitedconfidence in the ability and resourcefulness ofthe Surgeon General and his department togive every aid and comfort to the woundedand disabled, and to restore them as nearlyas is humanly possible to a normal physicaland economic condition.

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