Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . ecently conducted an amazing dem-onstration with a man with twoartificial hands and two artificialfeet. The patient had so masteredhis mechanical aids that he could doalmost everything that a normal iscalled upon to do under ordinarycircumstances. Another man soequipped worked at anvn and drillin the workshop and seemed to havelost by his misfortune but little ofhis old-time skill. Then there weremany men at their former occupa-tions with artificial arms ai:d feet. Teaching in Germany. The first task of the instructor,says D
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . ecently conducted an amazing dem-onstration with a man with twoartificial hands and two artificialfeet. The patient had so masteredhis mechanical aids that he could doalmost everything that a normal iscalled upon to do under ordinarycircumstances. Another man soequipped worked at anvn and drillin the workshop and seemed to havelost by his misfortune but little ofhis old-time skill. Then there weremany men at their former occupa-tions with artificial arms ai:d feet. Teaching in Germany. The first task of the instructor,says Dr. Alfred Gradenwitz, con-sists making the patient independ-!ent of his friends and reawakeningin him the self-confidence which hehas lost. Already at the hospitalduring convalescence proper, he hasbeen induced to idle away his timewith manual work of the most va-ried description, thus Dreventinghim from brooding over the out-look on his future life. At the crip-ples home, where he finds the mili-tary orders, so familiar ro him, helearns, from early morning to late.
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