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WAR is associated in the popular mind with the summoning of armies, the thunder of trie guns, and the carnage of blood-stained battlefields. Patriotism is manifested in personal sacrifice in many directions, some public, many unsuspected. All cannot help in the direct attack on our enemies, but all are able to assist in preventing disease that plays so important a part in the progress of a campaign. Horrible as are the features of any war, times arise when the destructive “minor horrors,” or insect pests, that are the inevitable accompaniment of the concentration of large numbers of men, assume a major import. The victims of the typhus now ravaging Serbia know this only too well. It is, then, a patriotic action on the part of Dr. Shipley to have set forth the life-histories of many noxious and disease-carrying arthropods, as well as certain leeches, together with very practical hints as to their prevention, in his book, “The Minor Horrors of War.”
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FANTHAM, H. Insect Pests and War 1 . Nature 95, 265–266 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095265a0
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