True influenza (the name is Italian, influenza di freddo) is very infectious.
Influenza in pregnancy is more severe than it is in the non-gravid state.
By the laity, and sometimes even by physicians, influenza is confused with la grippe, but there is an influenza vera and an influenza nostras, or la grippe, and this latter is not nearly so serious a disease.
The hemorrhages in abortions from influenza are often alarmingly profuse.
In threatened respiratory or cardiac failure in influenza complicating pregnancy there may be question of therapeutic abortion, but in such an event great care must be taken to avoid exhaustion and shock.
The real influenza is caused by a specific bacillus; it appears in epidemics which have a tendency to become pandemic, and then the disease disappears for a generation.
In severe influenza where there is diffuse capillary bronchitis, pleuropneumonia, or spasmodic cough, abortion is most likely to occur, and such abortion is always dangerous.
Vaccine As a Prophylactic in Influenza To the Editor:--I am chief surgeon for a large steel industry in Canton, and desire to do all in my power to prevent the threatened recurrence of influenza.
One consists solely of killed influenza bacilli; it being extensively used in the East.
Kelly appointed two committees to investigate the value of influenza vaccines as a preventive agent and as a treatment of the disease.
In brief, the conclusion of Rosenow and Sturdivant is: “It appears from all of the facts at hand that by the use of a properly prepared vaccine it is possible to rob influenza of some of its terrors.
Numerous telegrams and other requisitions are being received for influenza vaccine.
Medical journals are replete with reports of remarkable results obtained with the most varied forms of treatment instituted at the time that the “influenza epidemic” had been reached.
To make a conservative statement: The use of vaccine as a prophylactic in influenza is an experiment.
I particularise influenza for its frequency, but the benefit is equally great in many other affections in which the nervous system especially suffers.
Persons who have had a severe attack of influenza would regain their strength more surely in a holiday spent in going and returning from the Cape than in any other way.
Sometimes colds are of the influenza nature, the result of a germ, which may fix itself in the throat in spite of all precautions.
Influenza comes like a bolt from the blue, attacking its victims with disconcerting suddenness.
It is a perfectly true statement, and if the ordinary cold had not been there first, it is more than probable that the influenza germ would not have had a chance of establishing itself.
Yet the influenza bacillus itself finds the greatest ally in any catarrh of the nose or throat.
Sciatica may be the result of a chill, spinal pains of an influenza cold, whilst headache may be due to biliousness, faulty eyesight or a variety of other conditions.
If an epidemic of influenza is prevalent, the neurasthenic will feel certain that he is to be the next victim, and his sensations, purely imaginary it may be, will confirm his forebodings.
Of late there has been a tendency to treat common colds and influenza by means of these baths, but in many cases they only increase the catarrh, instead of relieving it.
There had been a tremendous amount of influenza in the fleet and I was not certain I hadn't got it myself.
On the morrow I was brimful of influenza and chill contracted in the night the dug-out fell in, and was slacking on the bed when a report came from the 82nd Battery R.
This shows how much stronger I am; think of me flitting through a town of influenza patients seemingly unscathed.
After the other seven were almost wholly recovered Henry lay down to influenza on his own account.
Take it for all in all, I suppose this island climate to be by far the healthiest in the world--even the influenza entirely lost its sting.
The truth is, I have never got over the last influenza yet, and am miserably out of heart and out of kilter.
But a sharp second attack of influenza in January lowered his vitality, and from a trip which the family took for the sake of change to Sydney, in the month of February, they returned with health unimproved.
However, you must expect influenza to leave some harm, and my spirits, appetite, peace on earth and goodwill to men are all on a rising market.
The General Conference Postponed Because of the influenza epidemic no meetings were held during the winter and spring of 1919.
No public funeral could be held as the city was under quarantine because an epidemic of influenza was over all the land.
And it is worth noting, perhaps, that immediately after the signing of the armistice these three workrooms were turned into manufactories for production of influenza masks, for which there was a great emergency demand.
It was a wet day: the influenza had barely left me, and I dared not go out to visit Bettesworth.
An influenza attacking myself about the same time prevented me from going out to see how he fared, and for about ten days I know only that he did not come to work.
They seemed afraid of her, as though she was recovering from influenza and they feared to catch it.
And secretly she thought that she had better send for the doctor, and that there must be after all some difference between influenza and a cold.
Ye can call it influenzaif ye like," said Mrs. Machin.
He said when he passed the store that there's a regular outbreak of influenza down below the State Line Road.
While Doctor Elton was trying to get over to the center aisle, Old Man Hawk walked up and began asking him about the influenza ep-i-something-or-other down below State Line Road.
The ravages of the influenzaepidemic of June and July were severe, and casualties from this cause far exceeded those inflicted by the enemy.
In the early days of June the influenza epidemic began to make its ravages, but the Battalion suffered comparatively little.
McMeekin told me," I went on, "that a relapse after influenza is nearly always fatal.
If it's only influenza there's no reason why he shouldn't send me the key of the bag.
Now that he has influenza himself he can't help knowing.
I asked him at once if he were aninfluenza convalescent.
No one who has only just recovered frominfluenza ought to be called upon to face a crisis.
Influenza or no influenza, I shouldn't have sat down under the things that girl was saying about you.
I spent the next hour in hoping vehemently that he would get the influenza himself.
The dregs of the influenza were still hanging about me.
Remember that I've got influenza and if Miss Pettigrew and Miss Battersby come here I'll infect them.
I had not slept at all since I got the influenza and I could not sleep then, but I thought it better to pretend to sleep and I lay as still as I could.
Alas, things are no better there, and if this influenza epidemic comes on, as the doctors predict, he will have a busy spring.
The influenza epidemic of 1918, following the shortage of doctors during the war, revealed the plight of many a rural community without medical service.
It's getting on for a year since I had a letter from you; but I saw in a recent newspaper he'd been down with influenza but was "making good progress.
That fiendish malefactor, the Influenza Bacillus, has been caught at last!
A profuse nasal discharge is generally infectious, in the case of influenza or other "colds," if not of diphtheria.
In like manner, influenzawill slay its hundreds in a tribe of less than a thousand members.
She is not well yet, nor is papa, both are suffering under severe influenza colds.
There has been so much sickness during the last winter, and the influenza especially has been so severe and so generally prevalent, that the sight of suffering around us has frequently suggested fears for absent friends.
She was to have come in June, but then my severe attack of influenza rendered it impossible that I should receive or entertain her.
The ninety thousand fuzzy-headed Fijians who have survived successive epidemics of measles and influenza have given up the savoury heresies of roast long pig and have taken on trousers, education, and wealth.
Lord Scamperdale, adding, 'I'll be bound he's got no more influenza than I have.
It was a long, hot journey, and as I had not quite recovered from my attack of influenza I found it very fatiguing.
