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The contents of a U.S. military first aid kit from 1945.

E. Lesch in The First Miracle Drugs: How the Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine . “While the therapeutic revolution initiated by sulfa drugs had begun well before the war, a number of other important medical innovations occurred during the war and con- tributed with the sulfa drugs to historically unprecedented low levels of mortality and morbidity among combatants.” Medicine in the War’s Aftermath W orld War II changed the world in many ways. It forged new political alliances. It hastened the demise of colonialism . It also made the world a more globalized, in- terconnected place as people shared their culture, language, and religion. One of the greatest transformations came in the area of medicine and science. World War II had

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