La Sanidad Militar del Ejército Español en la Guerra de 1895 en Cuba

Abstract

During the last Cuban Independence War, the combination of several factors like climate, a poor feeding and the continuos movements of the Army, caused a physical weakness and an increment of diseasies among the Spanish soldiers. The study of these diseasies, many of them tropical ones, their treatment and adopted sanitary measures (like the construction of hospitals, the improvement of installations, etc.) can constitute a first step in order to know the number of the soldier infected by these diseasies and in which manners this fact affected the capacity of the Spanish Army.