Word: influenza
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...Louis physicians knew it was epidemic encephalitis, the brain inflammation popularly called sleeping sickness.* Known in Europe since 1712, it first appeared in the U.S. at the end of 1918. following the world-wide influenza epidemic of that year. But the name and effects of the disease are almost all that is known about it. Scientists think it must be caused by a virus, but they can only guess at what the virus is, how it is spread, how best combated...
...cures of sickness no more signify an infallible remedy than do two swallow's make a summer. Nevertheless physicians were interested last week when Dr. Ronald Hare of London reported in the Lancet two cures of influenza pneumonia with serum prepared from human beings convalescing from influenza...
Died. Gilbert Nelson Haugen, 74, longtime U. S. Republican Congressman from Iowa's 4th District, co-author of the famed McNary-Haugen farm relief bill vetoed in 1927 by President Coolidge; of heart disease brought on last winter by influenza; in Northwood, Iowa. When he was displaced March 4 by Democrat Fred Biermann, he had completed 34 consecutive years in the House, an all-time record...
...Bacon '33, No. 6 in the varsity crew for the past two years will be unable to row against M.I.T. and Princeton in the season's opener on the Charles Saturday, April 29, because of an attack of influenza which necessitated his removal to Stillman Infirmary Tuesday, according to an announcement by head Coach Whiteside yesterday. Bacon will not be able to take part in any other races this year...
Died, Ethel King Wallace, 36, relict of Thriller-Writer Edgar Wallace; of influenza; in London...