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Sir: —Congress having appropriated a small sum for furnishing special surgical appliances to those disabled in the military or naval service, your co-operation is respectfully invited in order that this relief may reach the class of persons intended to be benefited. This office is desirous of obtaining authentic information regarding all existing cases of severe and unusual injuries. Should you have occasion to report such, it will be found useful to bear in mind the foliowing points: As no money commutation is authorized, only such cases need be presented as offer a fair prospect of being relieved by surgical or mechanical appliances. Artificial limbs and apparatus for disabled limbs being otherwise provided for by law, the injuries here in view are almost exclusively those affecting the head, face or trunk. As trusses are furnished under special legislation hernia, when not complicated with other injuries, is not to be understood as |
