Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dogs droop and often die of distemper, a virus disease which affects them very much as influenza affects human beings. For experimental purposes scientists infect monkeys with the virus of distemper, just as they infect them with the virus of infantile paralysis. Last year, at Valhalla, N. Y., Dr. Gilbert Julias Dalldorf and associates* tried to inoculate monkeys with strains of both diseases at the same time and found that monkeys will not catch infantile paralysis while suffering from distemper. Last fortnight the Rockefeller Institute's Journal of Experimental Medicine presented the details of the experiments, as well...
...virus." If he and his associates are correct, they believe that they have discovered "a new immunity mechanism in the virus field." And if they have done so, they may also have discovered the reason for the "seasonal incidence" of certain diseases, why infantile paralysis occurs mainly in summer, influenza in winter...
...fifth of a series of 12 free, public lectures held at the Medical School on Sunday afternoons, Dr. Max-well Finland '22 yesterday addressed a crowded hall on "Colds, Influenza, and Pneumonia," and the symptoms by which they could be detected...
...Memphis last week Rt. Rev. James Matthew Maxon, Episcopal bishop of Tennessee, sat up in the sickbed where he had lain for 18 days ailing of influenza, and for the first time learned some-thing that all the rest of his diocese knew. Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe, dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Memphis, was entering the third week of a fast which he hoped would prove that "the soul is above the need of material life" (TIME...
...Dean Noe, long a popular, liberal-minded Memphis churchman, performed his pastoral tasks last week with vigor which amazed observers, he insisted that his huskiness of voice, his loss of weight from 200 pounds to 100 pounds or less, were the result of a recent attack of influenza. In Chicago, Dr. Morris Fishbein, perennial spokesman for U. S. Medicine, expressed doubt that Dean Noe had lived on oranges for a year, cracked: "The stomach has no religion...