Wars, Pestilence and the Surgeons Blade
Wars, Pestilence and the Surgeons Blade Wars in the 19th Century were accompanied by a very heavy loss of life from infectious diseases. During the Peninsular War, for example, for every soldier…
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Wars, Pestilence and the Surgeons Blade
Wars in the 19th Century were accompanied by a very heavy loss of life from infectious diseases. During the Peninsular War, for example, for every soldier dying of a wound, four succumbed to disease. Typhus fever, dysentery, malaria, typhoid fever and yellow fever caused many more deaths than wounds inflicted by enemy actions.
It reviews three major conflicts during this time: the Peninsular War, the Crimean War and the Boer War and also considers many minor wars fought by the British Empire in the intervening years, and highlights significant medical and surgical developments during these conflicts. This book examines the development and evolution of surgical practice against this overwhelming risk of death due to disease. War surgery in the first part of the 19th Century was brutal, and it had to be carried out swiftly.
It was performed at speed because there were no anaesthetics and
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