Medicine: The Wounded

Thousands and thousands of the Army's seriously wounded and sick are flowing back to the U.S. each month. The Army's 60 general hospitals are filling up. What can be done for them now—for the men with mutilated faces and legs and minds?

Fed Up, Built Up. A new arrival is usually tired, fed up with the war and the Army. He thinks that no one, least of all a civilian, can understand what he has endured. He dreads civilian life. (The 15-day furlough some men get before treatment often makes them uneasier than ever.)...

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