And the fact is that, as we can gather from the words of Bastos quoted above, and as this military surgeon would confess years later, Spanish doctors were aware of the small number of military disabled needing rehabilitation.
Y es que, como se deduce de las palabras de Bastos reproducidas anteriormente y como confesaría este cirujano militar años más tarde, los médicos españoles fueron conscientes del escaso número de mutilados militares a reeducar.