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People have used and still use stoves to bake bread and use dryers for plums and other fruit. Such a tradition constitute the base of a "chamber with dry, hot air". Before the onset of the typhoid fever epidemic at the beginning of 1915, there were no effective tactical tools against large-scale epidemics, either in Serbia or abroad. As an anti epidemic measure, depediculation was effectuated by the use chambers. These had to have a sufficient capacity and to be easily handled. The application of dry hot air in the Niš "disinfection station" makes the phase sequence of tactical depediculation solutions different from that promoted in 1956. Dry hot air had to be in the first place due to the following: 1) it was the first tactical tool for the purpose; and b) it was most efficient in the destruction of parasites and by the number of clothing and bedding items processed. This tactical solution was the biggest success of Serbian war medicine in the Great War, and an important scientific contribution of Serbia to the world medicine. In the next world war, medicine had thus already had a valid, proven means to fight typhoid fever. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The occurrence of typhus in Serbia, during the gathering of soldiers in barracks between 1836 and 1864, made us search its appearance in the Serbian wars. In the Second Serbian-Turkish War, doctors' reports showed that a lot of them had noticed massive appearance of typhus. That is contrary to the opinions of Djordjevic, Stanojevic and other doctors who denied the existence of typhus in that war. Collected data from informational material, books, magazines, newspapers, were analyzed. We had an insight into the archive material from 1879. The following facts were our arguments: identification of disease, clinical signs and symptoms of typhus, its complications, epidemiologic characteristics and others, which all together indicated that there was a possibility for diagnosing the "war typhus". The established diagnosis was at the level of "nonentity". Epidemic in Serbia is associated with the period of the Ottoman rule as the disease appeared in the areas liberated from the Turks. The first year after the war, in 1879, the "war typhus" spread among soldiers, but also among civilians who caught the disease from soldiers on leave. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]