Wars, Pestilence and the Surgeon's Blade

The Evolution of British Military Medicine and Surgery During the Nineteenth Century

von Steven Heys, Thomas Scotland

416 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 War, for example, for every soldier dying of a wound, four succumbed to disease. This book examines th

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781911628330
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.03.2019
• Größe: 234 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Helion & Company
• Herausgegeben von: Thomas Scotland, Steven Heys