title: La guerra de la triple alianza y el destino del soldado. “Mueres en la guerra o mueres por la enfermedad”
abstract: This article deals with a little known antecedent in the history of oriental military health. In the game of hegemonic interests in the South American region, four nations confronted each other in the "Paraguayan War" or "of the Triple Alliance" (1865 - 1869). There was a prologue: the invasion of the eastern territory, the siege, bombardment and capture of Paysandú, not a confrontation of eastern political parties but the forced consequence of regional imperialist interests. And with the fall o
journal: SALUD MILITAR