THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF ORTHOPEDIC, RECONSTRUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL SURGERY

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In this section we should remember that in 1916 Col. Joel E. Goldthwait and four other members, Hibbs, Henderson, Osgood and Allison, were appointed a committee on preparedness to arrange for our participation as orthopedic surgeons if the United States became engaged in the World War. Our attitude then was one of high idealism; we were prepared to offer time, effort and even life if necessary, in the service of our country and our countrymen. It is now a matter of history that the opportunity came, and that, in the spirit suggested above, Colonel Goldthwait and his associates made exactly the offer and the effort that was expected of them.1 Now, however, if we attempt to discuss the results of that effort, in the spirit of today, we are very likely to develop a tone that differs greatly from that which was used in 1916. There are those who

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