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Until the First World War disease in the form of epidemics such as typhus and plague had taken a greater toll of troops in the field than shot or shell, while malaria and dysentery temporarily incapacitated thousands of men. Medical science made great strides in that war particularly in the application of antiseptics and even a start was made on trying to understand psychiatric cases induced by what was then loosely termed ‘shell shock’. Greater attention had already begun to be paid to the health of civilians as well as of the military and this interest continued after the war.
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Hartcup, G. (2000). The Transformation of Military Medicine. In: The Effect of Science on the Second World War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596177_7
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