Abstract
WAR has always been more interesting than disease to the historian, and medical matters received little attention in early chronicles unless they had a very definite bearing on the outcome of the struggle. Medical men have always followed armies but often for educational rather than humanitarian purposes, and only comparatively recently have organized military medical services been evolved.
War and Disease
By Dr. Ralph H. Major. (Advancement of Science Series, No. 3.) Pp. 190 + 8 plates. (London: Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications, n.d.) 12s. 6d. net.
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MARSHALL, J. War and Disease. Nature 151, 627 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151627a0
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