HIST 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Malaria, Headache, Military Medicine
14 Mar 2017
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Describe the relationships between disease, health, and warfare; explain how and why war aggravated disease and vice versa. Assess which medical measures have had the greatest impact on warfare. Apply knowledge of disease prevention and warfare to the king"s town tewt. A person becomes a casualty of war if he or she is incapable of carrying out their military duties. This de nition includes the dead, diseased, wounded and prisoners of war. Disease was still prevalent, just not as deadly. Infectious disease casualties were numerous and indiscriminate about wo they attacked. Disease casualties took soldiers away from their military duties. The military is responsible for their health care during treatment and recovery times. Because public health is about re-applying lessons of hygiene and sanitation, it often gets downplayed in military planning. Soldiers are taken out of combat: malaria symptoms moderate to severe shaking and chills, high fever, profuse sweating as body temperature falls, headache, vomiting, diarrhea.
