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[The 2d siege of Vienna by the Turks, with special reference to sanitary conditions before and during that time]
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift
|October 14, 1983
Abstract:
The author describes the siege of Vienna by the Turks in the year 1683. Bad sanitary conditions prevailed and medical supplies were insufficient. Monasteries were used as hospitals. Dysentery occurred epidemically, killing many soldiers and civilians. There were possibly also cases of tuberculosis, as well as of louse-borne typhus. A catastrophic lack of food occurred.