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Word: kirckhoff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typhus, more than cold or Russian bullets, made Napoleon retreat from Moscow. Cold, hungry soldiers lay in their own filth on rotten straw. According to de Kirckhoff, a corps surgeon, despairing men ate leather and even human flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plague No. 1 | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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