Category: History - Other
An infectious and contagious disease; most startling in its methods of sudden appearance and disappearance; its widely diffused and rapid spread is seen in no other disease; it has excited universal and general attention; physicians and scientists have been stimulated and fasc...
_Effect of Influenza on Man._ When the Influenza Bacillus or Microbe has gained access to the system of man, it speedily produces an acute infectious toxaemia or blood poisoning...
2. CHAPTER II.1781–82. Pandemic IV. Very severe, widespread, appeared in the spring. Began in the east, China, thence to India, Russia, western Europe. Named the “Russian Catarrh.” Appeared i...
3. CHAPTER III.Previous to the year 1889 Hawaii had been tolerably free from the “Flu.” Such cases which had appeared in former years were of a mild character, as were also those which prevail...
1. CHAPTER I.An infectious and contagious disease; most startling in its methods of sudden appearance and disappearance; its widely diffused and rapid spread is seen in no other disease; it...