“I am personally fed up”: How military culture induces military suicide — salon.com

The year was 1928 and antibiotics as we know them today did not exist. A simple scratch often became a nasty bacterial infection resulting in swelling, high fever and a potentially fatal diagnosis that doctors mostly treated with hope and prayers. The risk of bacterial infections left medical experts essentially powerless, as they could only treat the symptoms and not the root cause of the infection. Though scientists desperately searched for ways to replicate naturally existing antibiotic agents in the laboratory, they had little success.

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