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TYPHOID fever is inseparable from war. it finds in war, ready for it, all that it could desire. In times of peace we have a thousand ways of avoiding it, a thousand ways of holding it up: so sure are our defences, so elaborate our plans, that we get into a stupid way of thinking of typhoid fever as if it were due only to “insanitary surroundings”; as if it were a disease altogether unlikely to show itself within ten miles of a good medical health officer. Then comes war; and, with declaration of war, comes the general mobilisation of the infective diseases. They are called up, they are sent to the front. Louvain as it was and Louvain as it is are scarcely more unlike than are typhoid in times of peace and typhoid in time of war.
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PAGET, S. The Protective Treatment Against Typhoid Fever . Nature 94, 146–147 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094146a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/094146a0