Work is the Tonic That is Expected to Restore the Shell-Shocked Soldiers to Health at Post Hospital
From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, March 1, 1919: More than one hundred veterans suffering from “shell shock” are undergoing treatment at Ft. Benjamin Harrison hospital. Physicians caring for the men whose nerves were shattered by the thundering of the big guns along the Western Front call this form of nervous disease “psychiatric cases.” Maj. Frank Leslie directs an occupational therapy program treating the men. “No medicine can be used efficaciously in the treatment