Epidemics Resulting from Wars

In the Franco-German War of 1870–1, a larger number of troops were assembled within a short time upon the field of battle than in any previous campaign. On the German side 33,10...

When fortified cities are subjected to a long siege the death-rate in them increases considerably; if diseases break out during the siege, they spread beyond expectation and car...

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, epidemics of bubonic plague and typhus fever were frequent occurrences in various parts of Central Europe, but they were usually kep...

Typhus fever, as a specific disease, was well known to the military physicians during the age of Napoleon, since, as set forth in the previous chapter, it regularly appeared dur...

On April 28, 1828, Russia declared war against Turkey; the fighting took place partly in the Balkan Peninsula, in Wallachia and Bulgaria, and partly in Transcaucasia. In the wes...

Among the great advances made in the last few decades of the nineteenth century must be included the successful battle of modern hygiene against infectious diseases. This strugg...

Numerous as are the historical notices in former years regarding the destruction of armies by pestilence, correspondingly few are the detailed reports on the spread of pestilenc...

The twenty years of fighting that followed the French Revolution, and into which all Europe was drawn, were everywhere accompanied by outbreaks of pestilence, many of which were...

The Thirty Years’ War left Germany for several decades in such a weakened condition that Louis XIV was able to perpetrate all sorts of outrages upon the unfortunate country. The...

All infectious diseases may spread in consequence of war and develop into epidemics of varying extent. In the next chapter we shall see how the wars at the end of the fifteenth...

In countries which have the misfortune to be the scene of protracted wars, the mortality regularly undergoes a considerable increase. This is caused chiefly by the infectious di...

J. Okuniewski, _Port Arthur. Sanitäre Skizzen, Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens_, 1911, No. 5. (Quoted from _Der Militärarzt_. Supplement to the _Wiener med. Wochensch...

1. P. 1, changed “Lagerepidemieen” to “Lagerepidemien”. 2. P. 131, changed “Typhusin” to “Typhus In”. 3. P. 256, changed “—” to “222” in Totals. 4. Silently corrected typographi...