... seldom held between their teeth, while they were helping a patient on or off the table...The surgeon snatched his knife from between his teeth.... wiped it rapidly once or twice across his bloodstained apron, and the cutting began."# Picture that in your mind and now wonder why 60% of the 620,000 people who died during that four-year war died ... decade the centuries of superstition clinging to theories of divine retribution and toxic "efflura" gave way to the scientific understandings at Louis Pasteur and his published discovery of bacteria and Joseph Lister describing his experiments ...

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