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that it is because I love them that I find a way to help them." "She has, by careful study, found means to relieve the suffering and to expedite the cure of men who have had arms or legs broken or shattered," explained one report in 1918. Her story was retold often in
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when the war began. In 1916 Gassette was made technical director of the Franco-American
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Gassette was credited with making custom devices that helped hundreds of soldiers avoid or lessen amputation, deformity, and impairment after a limb injury. "I can tell you what I have done and tell you about my men," she wrote from France. "I love them and they are fine, every one of them. I guess
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Throughout the first decade of the 1900s and up until the outbreak of World War I, Gassette travelled back and forth between Paris and
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and nurses, to design such devices as the
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