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Let's talk about disease and epidemics in history. Questions, speculation, how they affected societies and the development of medicine, etc.
Also, how did people try to fight or mitigate infections not severe enough to require amputation or that didn't immediately kill people before antibiotics? I'm specially curious about WW1 since I've never read many numbers or articles on how they treated the thousands of daily wounded.
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I've always been pretty spooked by this scene, I wonder how it was to live in a city that was essentially doomed back when plagues hit, it must have been awful to see people driven to literal insanity over the horror of the sickness spreading and killing all in its path.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcm1DYtGPNE
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>>1675078
Plague kino.
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They expected to lose children and die young, it is why religion was so popular.
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I recommend this reading.
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Roughly what is the percentage of people who die in wars due to disease rather than combat? I know a major reason why Athens lost the Peloponnesian war was because, I think, Pericles walled in Athens to not let any Spartans invade it, but that allowed disease to spread rapidly throughout its population, which was only made worse by lack of produce due to less cultivation.
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>>1676074
IIRC it was a rough figure of 2-3 times, but it really depends on the time period and the conditions of the battlefiled. By the way, WW2 was the first war where more people didn't die from disease afterwards than from the fighting during the war, all thanks to antibiotics.
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>>1676086
What are the stats like for WW1 for disease vs combat deaths? What diseases caused the most deaths during WW1?
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