Wars, Pestilence & the Surgeon's Blade: The Evolution of British Military Medicine and Surgery During the Nineteenth Century by Steven Heys, Thomas Scotland
Wars, Pestilence & the Surgeon's Blade: The Evolution of British Military Medicine and Surgery During the Nineteenth Century
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Steven Heys, Thomas Scotland
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Wars, Pestilence & the Surgeon's Blade: The Evolution of British Military Medicine and Surgery During the Nineteenth Century

Steven Heys, Thomas Scotland

407 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

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Wars in the 19th Century were accompanied by a very heavy loss of life from infectious diseases. Typhus fever, dysentery, malaria, typhoid fever and yellow fever caused many more deaths than wounds inflicted by enemy actions. During the Peninsular...

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