Under the name of “Spanish Influenza” an epidemic is sweeping over the North American
Continent... with an alarming morbidity and mortality. It is a rapidly spreading and very …

Since earliest times, man has been visited by various plagues whil have swept through
countries leaving death in their wake. Although modern man has conquered many of the …

accident is only the result probably of our ignorance of all the factors and of their relative
intensity), all deductions derived from instituting a parallel between the past and the present …

The term" Influenza" is Italian in origin and literally translated means influence. It must be
confessed that all the influencesgoverning this disease are not yet definitely known. The …

Spanish influenza had nothing'Spanish'about it. The name refers to the reputed origin of the
pandemic of 1918-19 and is totally unjustified. There is no evidence whatsoever that the …

BY H. HAROLD SCOrr, MD, FRCP (Lond.), DPH, DTM and H.(Camb.), FRSE, with a Preface
by Professor W. WV. Jameson. Edwin Arnold & Co. 1934. Price 12/6 net. During the last …

In 1918-19 the so-called spanish influenza pandemic killed about 20 to 40 millions people
all over the world. In France the loss of life was reckoned between 125,000 and 250,000 …

A Knowledge of the histories and laws of epidemic diseases constitutes one of the most
interesting and important branches in the science of medicine. You cannot, gentlemen …

Itook over charge of Grey's Hospital in January. 1918, and admitted cases of influenza every
month from that time onward. In the majority of cases the malady was uncomplicated, but in …

Gentlemen,? I thank you most heartily for having raised me to the presidency of this Society,
and I must ever con-sider it as a high honour to have been deemed worthy, through your …