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    The Flu: History of Spanish Influenza Pandemic: How the World Reacted to the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic in USA and Europe
    The Flu: History of Spanish Influenza Pandemic: How the World Reacted to the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic in USA and Europe
    The Flu: History of Spanish Influenza Pandemic: How the World Reacted to the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic in USA and Europe
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    The Flu: History of Spanish Influenza Pandemic: How the World Reacted to the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic in USA and Europe

    By Arthur Albert St. Mouritz

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    This book has been written and compiled for the use of anyone who seeks concise and clear information on the history of Influenza. Brief and salient facts are set forth relating to the "Spanish Flu" epidemics and pandemics: other collateral features have also been discussed, connected with or bearing upon this subject.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publishere-artnow
    Release dateApr 24, 2020
    ISBN4064066058425
    The Flu: History of Spanish Influenza Pandemic: How the World Reacted to the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic in USA and Europe

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      The Flu - Arthur Albert St. Mouritz

      PREFACE

      Table of Contents

      This Booklet has been written and compiled for the use of any student or layman who seeks concise and clear information on the history of Influenza. Brief and salient facts are set forth relating to Flu epidemics and pandemics: other collateral features have also been discussed, connected with or bearing upon this subject.

      A. M.

      Author and Compiler.

      Honolulu, Hawaii, U. S. A., 1921.

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER I.

      Table of Contents

      What is Influenza? Discovery of the Bacillus. Alleged causes. Names given to the disease and their translation. Explanation of medical words.

      INFLUENZA.

      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 fascinated whilst pursuing their investigations and studying the disease in its various phases, to wit: spread, incubation, differences of type, and the exact micro-organism which invades the system of man, and if there is more than one that enters together or separately.

      Discovery of the Bacillus. In the year 1892, Dr. Richard Pfeiffer, of the University of Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, discovered the specific microbe of Influenza, a Bacillus, which is generally accepted as being the cause of the disease; however, there are some physicians who dissent.

      It was found to be present in the lungs, bronchial mucous membrane, sputum and nasal discharge. It is one of the smallest of the known bacilli; measures about one micron long and a one-half micron in breadth. A micron is equal to 1

      25,000 of an inch. The bacillus is found singly and in pairs, is non-motile. Domestic animals are not subject to the Flu, but monkeys and rabbits can be infected.

      Alleged Causes of the Flu. It has been attributed to numerous and varied agencies in the past. Philosophers, physicians and the people believed the disease to be due to supernatural phenomena.

      Some of the causes given were in the main fanciful, freakish and imaginary, the delusions of minds filled with wonder or fear, and illusions of the senses, such as:

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