Medicine and the American Revolution how diseases and their treatments affected the colonial army

A retired physician offers a unique history of the American Revolution, pointing out that nearly nine times as many people died from disease than from fighting. He traces such diseases as dysentery, scurvy, typhus, and smallpox to poor diet, inadequate sanitation, and sometimes a lack of basic medic...

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1. Verfasser: Reiss, Oscar (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Jefferson, NC u.a. McFarland 1998
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