The Pursuit of Disease, 1870–1914

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Even though specific therapy made slow progress until after 1914, in the period between the 1890s and the beginning of the war, the combination of general hygienic measures and better ways to fight particular diseases brought the steepest percentage decline of the whole century in the death rate of soldiers at home or abroad. The best of medical knowledge was not automatically translated into practice, but the information network available to military doctors steadily narrowed the time gap between discovery and implementation of practical preventive measures.

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