RT Journal
T1 LIterature as an aid to restoration
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD February 8
VO 72
IS 6
SP 416
OP 417
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610060030012
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610060030012
AB The war, which has in greater or lesser degree affected all the civilized nations of the earth, has given rise to novelties of performance and innovations of thought entirely unanticipated. Aside from the institution of new devices and operations that have demanded unusual ingenuity on the part of both the offensive and the defensive elements concerned, the very magnitude of many of the projects has tended to make ancient provisions in relation to them inadequate if not actually useless. The proportions of the war have been so vast, the numbers involved so huge, that new types of ability have been called for to manage the enormous machinery and its indescribable complexity. Tremendous efforts have become necessary to alter the inertia of traditional procedures.A striking illustration of this, as it pertains to men rather than materials, is afforded by the problem of the care, reeducation and return to civil life