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As Hutchinson believed that "the doctor and the sanitarian would play an important part" in the World War, he offered to help the British Army medical staff but was told in order to serve he would have to swear allegiance and in turn lose his American citizenship. With the help of Secretary of War
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the ratio was five deaths to disease for every one in battle, however during 'The Great War' the ratio was changed to ten deaths in battle for every one to disease. Hutchinson believes that three major points contribute to this protection against infectious disease: inoculations and sanitary
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Hutchinson emphasizes the importance that doctors played in the war. One of the major things they have contributed is the decrease in deaths due to disease. In the
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and Colonel Roosevelt he was able to travel to Europe and see everything that had "any value or interest from a medical and public health point of view."
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measures; surgical skill and hospital organization increasing recovery rate; and the better food provided to soldiers.
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Woods Hutchinson
Houghton Mifflin Company
Hardcover
Woods Hutchinson
World War I
Newton Diehl Baker
American Civil War

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