The treatment provided in our military hospitals for World War soldiers may be summarized in instructions approved by the Secretary of War, which were about as follows: That no member of the military service disabled in line of duty even though not expected to return to duty, would be discharged from the service until he had attained complete recovery or as complete recovery as could be expected he would attain when the nature of his disability was considered. It was laid down, further, that physical reconstruction consisted in the completest form of medical and surgical treatment carried to the point where maximum functional restoration, mental and physical, had been secured. To secure this result the use of work, mental and manual, was required during the convalescent period. This therapeutic measure, in addition to aiding greatly in shortening the convalescent period, retains or arouses mental activities, prevents the state of mind acquired by chronic hospital patients, and enables the patient to be returned to service or to civil life with the fullest realization that he can work in his handicapped state and with habits of industry much encouraged, if not newly formed. Early in 1918, the Secretary of War also authorized the Medical Department to proceed with the scheme for reconstruction of officers and enlisted men of the Army alone without consideration of the other bureaus of the government involved. This reconstruction it was clearly understood would end at the point where the medical reconstruction ceased and the future reconstruction of such cases was to be completed by other agencies of the Government after the individuals had been discharged from the Army. Patients then were cared for in military hospitals up to the point of maximum functional restoration, both mental and physical. In the case of patients who were ultimately to be discharged from military service, arrangements were made whereby the Federal Board for Vocational Training might have access to these men as soon as it was known that they were to be discharged and the educational officers of the Medical Department were directed to cooperate with the representatives of the Federal Board to the fullest possible extent, in order that the patients concerned might have all the advantages assured them by the Federal Government.