jan 1, 1854 - Florence Nightingale, correctly identified why wounded men where catching diseases like chlorea and dysentary
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She realized that these wounded men would stay in often dirty, crowded, rooms that attracted typhus and dysentary, often killing the men more often than their wounds.Image: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/COPY_1_11_34_1866-e1402062188591.jpg
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jan 1, 1854
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~ 171 years ago