Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on Nostr: Be humble or be humbled "Vaughan’s most chilling discovery was that this new strain ...
Be humble or be humbled
"Vaughan’s most chilling discovery was that this new strain of flu, like war itself, killed ‘the young, vigorous, robust adults . . . The husky male either made a speedy and rather abrupt recovery or was likely to die.’42 As a result Vaughan, for all his medical qualifications, felt completely helpless: ‘The saddest part of my life was when I witnessed the hundreds of deaths of the soldiers in the Army camps and did not know what to do. ..."
"Vaughan’s most chilling discovery was that this new strain of flu, like war itself, killed ‘the young, vigorous, robust adults . . . The husky male either made a speedy and rather abrupt recovery or was likely to die.’42 As a result Vaughan, for all his medical qualifications, felt completely helpless: ‘The saddest part of my life was when I witnessed the hundreds of deaths of the soldiers in the Army camps and did not know what to do. ..."