Those of us living now have important lessons to learn from these people of 1918. They had
no effective treatment for the severe form of the disease caused by the influenza" bacillus" …

This article describes the sustained effort by American researchers between the mid-1930s
and the mid-1950s to develop an effective influenza vaccine. From almost the beginning of …

Abstract Eighteenth-Century American Medicine surveys the types of illnesses from which
the colonials suffered, the constitution of the medical profession, and the medicines and …

HE population of California in the early part of Jlthe last century has been variously
estimated. It consisted of the dwellers in and about the chain of missions and presidios …

410 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 12 organized to carry the benefits of
vaccination to the New World. It was to proceed not only to Mexico, but also along the …

CHAPTER 20. The War 1915-1919 1915 SAN FRANCISCO Late in 1914, as one of its many
exposés of" patent" medicines, The Journal of the American Medical Associationpublished a …

THE general historian is no stranger to the source book as a valuable adjunct to his teaching
tools. Although he may know most of the texts commonly used for giving his students some …

Shattuck Lectures have always been timely. One can trace the history of modern medicine
reasonably well by reviewing the titles of the lectures. The lectures have been primarily …

On July 14, 1883, the first issue ofThe Journal of the American Medical Associationwas
published in Chicago under the founding editorship of Nathan S. Davis, MD, whose portrait …

TX l he authors of this book, with the help of a number of contributors, have done a yeoman's
job of compiling a vast amount of historical information into one book and have made it an …