
Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know
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The Importance of Proper Discipline
Trench feet is perfectly stoppable. You can stop it in its track by a change of dry socks, putting dry socks on and putting your feet somewhere not in the water. The other disease is pyrexia, you're running on an origin. It means you've got fever, but they don't know what caused it. Perhaps we should talk about sanitation. This is something we've had questions about as well. People asking, were there any methods put in place to keep trenches? Hygienic is probably the wrong word, but sanitation is probably the right way to go with that. I think... Very good point to move on to, actually.
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