Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tests made during the recent influenza epidemic on 300 students and faculty members of the University of Arkansas indicate that air containing minute quantities of chlorine breathed for five minutes a day tends to prevent the development of the flu. The case rate in the entire University population was 133 per 1,000, while in those taking the treatment it was 44 per 1,000. Eliminating those who were already ill or who did not complete the treatment, it was only 13 per 1,000, or one-tenth of the rate among those not " gassed." The experiments were conducted...
...tournament at Nice. Earlier in the play the French girl buried Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory under her irresistible attack, 6-0, 6-0. Mrs. Mallory has been defeated three times in recent European tournaments. Though far from the top of her game, owing to a recent attack of influenza, she has dodged no opportunity for competition...
...recent announcement of the discovery of the influenza germ at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, broadcasted by radio from the New York State Department of Health and given wide newspaper publicity, has on second thought, like so many other much-heralded scientific events, turned out to be less exciting than was at first supposed. The Journal of the American Medical Association, official organ of the medical profession in the United States, carries an editorial stating the residue of facts in the case, on the authority of Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Institute...
...discovery" is simply the summarizing of scientific papers published during the past three years by Drs. Frederick L. Gates and Peter K. Olitsky, of the Institute staff. A new microorganism, bacterium pneumosintes, has been isolated from the noses and throats of several patients with influenza, has been independently cultivated, and has produced influenza-like symptoms when injected into rabbits. Numerous other varieties of bacteria, such as Pfeiffer's bacillus, are usually present in these puzzling respiratory diseases, and it is not clear that the new organism is the invariable causal agent of influenza, though it is believed that...
...January 1 over 112 deaths from the disease have been reported in Greater New York, the rate having intensified within the past week. This malady should not be confused with African sleeping sickness, which is transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, but is a frequent accompaniment of influenza and other winter diseases. Dr. Frank J. Monaghan, who has just succeeded Senator Copeland as New York's health commissioner, believes that the germ or other cause of the disease can be found, and has put his laboratory men on its trail. Doctors reporting cases are filling out questionnaires...