MAKING THE UNFIT FIT.
SLIGHT DEFECTS CURED. As a result of the new recruiting boom in Britain, hospitals aro being besieged by men previously refused for the services because of some slight defect. They come for repairs, and with the resources of modern surgery the great majority will soon bo sent back to the recruiting offices perfectly fit.
" These men," writes a medical correspondent, "are really the very best material a commander could desire. They have a fine development of tho lighting instinct, and in spite of some undoubted physical disability many of them hayo offered themselves again and again.
" Somo come to the hospitals with hernia (rupture), for which the popular remedy js wearing a truss, but for which tho radical cure is an operation. Others seek the correction of flat-foot, very common in those who stand much and a bar to marching oven a moderate distance. An operation can often put these cases right in a few weeks. "Other cases which are filling the hospital wards are men with hammertoe (a most painful bending of one or another of the toes), varicose veins and varicocele."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11596, 14 January 1916, Page 4
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