Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another report said he was suffering from "bronchial catarrh after a sharp attack of influenza." It was stated that he would return to work "sooner than expected...
...population. This is an increase of 0.2 over the 1921 rate of 11.6, but is still considerably below the 1920 rate of 13.1. The general deathrate during the present century has declined from 17.6 in 1900 and the reduction has been fairly regular with the exception of the influenza year (1918), when the rate ballooned...
Last week Senator La Follette was reported ill with influenza. He is 68 and his health no longer what it was once. It is even possible that considerations of health may keep him out of the Presidential race next year. If influenza should keep him from the opening of Congress, he will be there, represented in spirit by his two lieutenants?Senator Norris of Nebraska and Representative John M. Nelson of Wisconsin...
...small that it cannot be seen through the most powerful magnification (about 1,500 times), or the right cultures for its food requirements were not found. Germs which will pass through an earthenware filter are called " filterable viruses." Dr. Olitsky previously collaborated in the discovery of the supposed influenza bacterium (TIME, March 17). It is wholly distinct the germ of the common cold...
...patient. Areas of dullness are distinguished for Catholics, Methodists, Seventh Day Adventists, Theosophists, Protestants and Jews! The diagnoses seem to be restricted in number, but include several serious microbic diseases ? tuberculosis, typhoid, acquired or congenital "diminished resistance" (euphemistic for syphilis), carcinoma (cancer), sarcoma (tumor), gonorrhea, malaria, influenza, colon septicaemia, streptococcus and staphylococcus infections. Most patients have traces of several of these, and the majority are found to have some form of syphilis. Autographs of Samuel Johnson, Poe, Longfellow, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Pepys and Bret Harte have been tested by Dr. Abrams, revealing that all of them suffered from various...