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Follow-Up Study of Head Wounds in World War II, by a. Earl Walker and Seymour Jablon (1961) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction
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... The tombs of Paracas in the New World also contained cracked skulls, with bony defects presumably trephined for the effects of cranial violence. And in the earliest extant manuscripts of Egyptian medicine, explicit directions are given for the care of head wounds (22)
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... The first national pension law of August 26, 1776, provided half pay during disability to any member of die forces losing a limb or being so disabled in the services of the United States as to render him incapable of earning a living. However, at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War the Con
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... At that time, legislation was introduced to amend the War Risk Insurance Act of 1914 to allow a program of allotments and allowances for dependents of the fighting men, monetary insurance against death or permanent total disability, pensions or compensation for disability of a veteran, awards to his dependents for his death due to injury or illness as a result of service, medical treatment and supply of required orthopedic appliances for service-connected disability, and vocational rehabilitation. On August 9, 1921, the U.S.
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... Such patients were not simply hemiplegics, epileptics, or aphasics, alone or in combination, but presented a more general problem requiring a holistic view of the individual. This situation was early recognized in certain European countries where special institutes with wellorganized staffs highly specialized in various neurological, psychological, therapeutic, and rehabilitation techniques were set up to study and treat head-injured patients.
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