Only two eivi! cases have been set y down for hearing at the half-yearly session of the Supreme Court in Masterton. A Canadian Army Medical Board was in consultation-on a soldier whoso disease had bafh'ed the regimental doctor. Unusual symptoms rendered diagnosis difficult, and led to an earnest discussion. The patient was listening intently. He surprised the doctors and himself by a spontaneous utterance expressing strong disagreement. The astonished doctors began to rebuke..) the soldier for his breach of discipline, but were presently amazed to learn "that he was an eminent surgeon from the Western St?.tes who from love of adventure had enlisted in the ranks. In civil life every doctor on the board would have thought it a privi. le|?p to bn tho pupil of tni» voluntary private eoldier^-
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 50, 27 February 1918, Page 7
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