Word: scutari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medical Heroes. Both tropical and military medicine, said Dr. Mackie, began with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. In 1854 that determined British spinster took a handful of nurses to Scutari, cleaned up the filthy, stinking, overcrowded hospitals, organized a system of sanitary supplies, bathed, clothed and fed the thousands of victims of typhoid, cholera, dysentery. Bitterly opposed by hard-bitten generals, she pulled down the hospital death rate from diseases from 315 to 22 per 1,000. After the war, she persuaded the British Government to set up the world's first school of military medicine, organize sanitary...
...second day, the Yugoslavs drove the Italians out of Scutari, Albania, and took the Italian-held island of Zara in the Adriatic...