Industrial medicine and surgery . Fig. 206.—Training disabled soldiers in art work and sign painting during their con-valescent days exemplifies the efforts to attain an economic Fig. 207.—Motor mechanics and other forms of shop work hasten the restoration offunction and will return many disabled soldiers to better jobs in civil life. 784 INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE ANDSURGERY jobs in civil life. The various illustrations give an excellent idea ofthese different therapeutic adjuncts which help in the physical recon-struction of these disabled soldiers. In all the general hospitals where t
Industrial medicine and surgery . Fig. 206.—Training disabled soldiers in art work and sign painting during their con-valescent days exemplifies the efforts to attain an economic Fig. 207.—Motor mechanics and other forms of shop work hasten the restoration offunction and will return many disabled soldiers to better jobs in civil life. 784 INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE ANDSURGERY jobs in civil life. The various illustrations give an excellent idea ofthese different therapeutic adjuncts which help in the physical recon-struction of these disabled soldiers. In all the general hospitals where the different types of special cases are collected some form of occupational therapy, curative work and study and a certain amount of vocational education is being given. The re-education of the blind soldiers forms one of the greatest examples of combining medical and economic treatment. Previous _ _ _ _____ to the war there were some j 10 or 12 trades and pro- , > fessions that the majority I of blind people entered in ] order to eke out a liveli- ^5 j hood, for example broom making, piano tuning, bas-ketry, etc. As a part of theplans for the blind soldiersfuture, industrial eng
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