Mike Serpa
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Water at Boil
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Did soldiers boil water? Did they know about the germ theory of disease? I understand the germ theory wasn't known until after the Civil War. Why boil water if they didn't about the germ theory?
If they had to use a somewhat dirty source of water such as a pond would they somehow filter it to make it cleaner?
Pretty sure if I was dying of thirst I would drink from any source no matter it's cleanliness.
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