... salted meat, heat alternating with cold, battle stress or even the smell from the latrines caused all these diseases. A report in 1864 by the American Medical Association noted that the air was full of "pus corpuscles, floating about as dust," which would settle in the wounds and cause infection. These experts suggested that the need for better ventilation in the operating ... ...

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