Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apparently the Government gave Prince Friedrich Wilhelm permission to return for Christmas only, but rumor has it that once the Prince returns to his Fatherland his exile will be at an end. At the time of receiving permission to return he was ill in bed with influenza. Nothing was known as to the date of his departure...
Experiments in applying various types of poison gases used in the war to the treatment of respiratory diseases; have multiplied. The use of chlorine as a preventive of influenza at the University of Arkansas has been described (TIME, April...
...experts of the Chemical Warfare Service, experimenting at Edgewood Arsenal, near Baltimore, have had striking results with chlorine in very dilute quantities as a preventive of influenza, pneumonia and common colds. By accident it was discovered that workers in departments where chlorine was made were immune to these diseases, although elsewhere 10 to 20% of the arsenal workers were infected. A slight leakage of the gas was believed to be the cause of the discovery...
Chlorine was found to be a preventative for pneumonia and influenza when it was noticed that men working in the army laboratory where there was a trace of chlorine in the air seemed immune from the prevalent epidemic of those diseases. Lewisite has been used in direct experiment with good results upon persons inflicted with locomotor ataxia. The much abused guinea pig was cured of a severe attack of tuberculosis by inhaling a very small quantity of the burning mustard...
...Logan, Ohio, after having influenza, a woman talked continuously for six days and then was removed to a sanitarium...