Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...powder. Dr. Felton since the general influenza epidemic of 1918-19 has been working with a commission organized by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in an attempt to find a remedy for influenza. Although he has not conquered influenza, he has found a serum for the most dreaded concomitant of that disease-the pneumonia which often put a fatal termination to a case of influenza...
Discovery of a new treatment for pneumonia which holds out a definite hope of radically reducing the death rate has been made by Dr. Lloyd D. Felton. Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene in the Harvard Medical School, according to an announcement made yesterday by the Influenza Commission of the Metropolitan Life Insurance...
...predicted that the great strides made in the prevention and cure of diphtheria will be duplicated to a considerable extent in the next decade in the fight on pneumonia, and this latest discovery is the first big progressive step in that direction. Although research by members of the influenza Commission has been going on for five years, Dr. Felton's discovery is the only one that has been made...
Sick King Vittorio Emanuele and his eldest son, Crown Prince Umberto, were confined to their beds with influenza. At Villa Savoya, the home of the Italian Royal Family, which lies just outside the Eternal City...
Except for its epidemic of influenza, a great number of Negro deaths and an appalling homicide figure, 1923 would have been the best health year in U. S. history...