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medicine and war  

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  • The horrific high-tech weapons of 20th-century warfare give deadly meaning to Russian surgeon Nikolai Pirogov's defini-tion of war as an epidemic of trauma. However, 18th and 19th century wars might more accurately be described as epidemics of disease. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Medicine and War]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-Z62MXXD8-9

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