Excerpt from Reclaiming the Maimed: A Handbook of Physical Therapy
In the following pages I have endeavored to put in small compass a description of the means that have been potent in putting back into active military service nearly half of those men wounded or otherwise disabled in action, who had climbed with decreasing speed the uphill road to recovery that too often halts at permanent invalidism.
This work is founded on an experience of over a year as Medical Officer, in charge of the "Command Depot" at Heaton Park, Manchester, and as Inspector of similar institutions for the treatment of convalescents, founded by the War Office throughout the British Isles. This experience was added to by a tour of inspection of the Canadian Convalescent Hospitals, established by the Military Hospitals Commission, for the purpose of standardizing the teaching and practice of physical therapy.
My thanks are due, and gladly given, to Sir Alfred Keogh, G.C.B., Director General of Medical Services, whose foresight and energy made this work possible in Britain and whose sympathetic support helped it over the difficult stages of organization, to proved efficiency. To the practical common sense and unbounded activity of Sir Robert Jones, K.C.B., Inspector of Military Orthopedics, who founded the chain of orthopedic centers, to which curative workshops are attached, I owe much, received during our association in the inspection of hospitals and camps. To Doctor R. Fortescue Fox I am indebted for assistance in establishing the Hydro at Heaton Park.
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