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SIR ANTHONY BOWLBY, at the annual general meeting of the Research Defence Society on June 26, gave an admirable little address on “Experimental Medicine and the Sick and Wounded in the War.” He spoke with authority; there is no surgeon with more right to do that. But, of course, he could not do more than touch points here and there of the great subject. He took for these points typhoid, tetanus, gas-gangrene, dysentery, and trench-fever, and he began with this praise of our Army: that it had been the healthiest Army in the war, partly because “the average Briton is naturally a cleanly animal,” partly because the British soldier understands a reasonable explanation, and is guided by it in daily life, and partly because our Army Medical Service, “a body of men unequalled in any other country on the face of the globe,” was constantly lecturing to the combatant officers, who in their turn instructed their men in the ways of health. So it came to pass that the amount of “sick wastage” in our Army was kept low; and that is how the war was won.
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Medical Science in the War . Nature 103, 354 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103354a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/103354a0