Thread: You go, Flo!
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Unread 05-07-2014, 04:39 PM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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Here's Florence Nightingale's famous graph, showing that war wounds were a nearly-insignificant cause of British deaths in the Crimean War, when compared with cholera, typhus, and dysentery. (The Charge of the Light Brigade was in October 1854--barely a blip.)
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