This is now understood, and almost everywhere to-day the wounded soldier can resume work in workshops attached to the centres of physiotherapy, and thus begin his re-education while continuing his treatment. At a certain stage resumption of work becomes the best therapeutic agent of all. It is obvious that this resumption of work cannot supply the place of certain special treatments such as electrical treatment during the regeneration of a nerve, balneotherapy, or graduated gymnastic exercises; but is it not true that work with its continual active movement is infinitely superior to passive mobilisation by means of apparatus however ingeniously the latter may be contrived? Morover it is surely a more efficacious course of mechanotherapy when the patient works for half or all the day than is provided by the special course occupying only an hour or two. The tendency to-day is in this direction, as, for example, at the Grand Palais, thanks to the efforts of J. Camus, and also in the agricultural centre of the XIIIth district under the direction of Belot and Privat. At a given moment all treatment may be suspended and the patient may devote himself exclusively to work with results the excellence of which Nepper and Vallée have demonstrated. The workmen are then eligible for work in a town in private workshops, but so far this freedom has more inconveniences than advantages. A man whose working capacity is much reduced, and more especially a man who requires re-education, has no place in an ordinary workshop where neither the proprietor nor the foreman nor his fellow-workmen are in truth much inclined to concern themselves about him. Where actual education is necessary this is best supplied in special workshops where the patient will be among comrades handicapped like himself, whose progress he will be able to watch and whose efforts he will imitate, rather than among able-bodied workmen, by comparing himself with whom he is bound to be discouraged. The problem has been solved by the Belgians in a remarkable establishment opened at Port-Villerz, and by the Austrians at Vienna under the direction of Spitzy, as Nové-Josserand and Bouget inform us, by delaying a maimed soldier's discharge from the army until his re-education is as complete as possible. This method has proved to be to the interest both of the individual and of the State, but we do not seem to have considered this solution, and it is still to be feared that it would accord ill with the independence of our national character. The actual fact, though it has not been brought into prominence, is that our usual system of "watertight compartments" has been applied by adding to the centres of physiotherapy centres of agricultural or industrial re-education, the results obtained in which are dependent upon the efficiency of the director of physiotherapy.