Identifier: 14031070R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: The disabled soldier
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: McMurtrie, Douglas C. (Douglas Crawford), 1888-1944, author
Subjects: Veterans Disabled Persons Rehabilitation, Vocational Amputees Artificial Limbs World War I
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Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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g, fur work, manufacture of artificial limbsand orthopedic appliances, wireless telegraphy, and horti-culture. Instruction in shop work in the manufactureof artificial limbs has been found most successful. Theshop renders services which are considered indispensable.It studies the needs of the workmen in the differenttrades, designs useful appliances for them, and producesany special device needed for a given purpose. Thetrade is appropriate for men who have worked witheither wood, metal, or leather, and has recruited itspupils from the ranks of men who were mechanics,blacksmiths, wood and metal turners, harness-makers,plaster workers, and shoemakers before the war. The course in fur work was started at the request ofa number of fur merchants of the city of Lyons whowere concerned over the shortage of workmen in their Where Theres a Will. With both arms gone, this poilu has founda way to do useful work again. He was taught at Lyons,where the pioneer schools of re-education were founded
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BREAKS IN THE WALL 31 trade. They considered it a sound business measure aswell as a humane and patriotic duty to create a supplyof trained furriers to take the place of the Germanshitherto almost exclusively employed. The school wasglad to open such a course, since the work can be doneseated and is therefore suitable for men with amputatedor paralyzed legs. A committee composed of five ofthe leading fur merchants of the city aided the school inorganizing the course by inviting visits to their shops,by furnishing plans, and by selecting a foreman. Afterthe class was started, they continued their cooperation;they supplied skins on which the pupils could work,paid them for their work, and promised definite posi-tions to those who finished the course. A wireless telegraphy section was started at Tourvielleas a result of a conversation between M. Herriot andColonel Ferrie, technical director of wireless telegraphyin the Army. Colonel Ferrie regretted the lack of goodoperators and at a tim

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