The Flu

About this eBook

Author

Mouritz, A. A. St. M. (Arthur Albert St. M.), 1861-1943

Title

"The Flu": a brief history of influenza in U.S. America, Europe, Hawaii

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RC: Medicine: Internal medicine

Subject

Influenza

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 61607

Release Date

March 12, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.“THE FLU” A BRIEF HISTORY OF INFLUENZA IN U. S. AMERICA EUROPE HAWAII
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.BIBLIOGRAPHY
4. 4.CHAPTER I. — INFLUENZA. — NAMES GIVEN TO INFLUENZA: TRANSLATED. — THE PERFECT LANGUAGE. — EXPLANATION OF MEDICAL WORDS.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. — INFLUENZA EPIDEMICS IN U. S. AMERICA. — INFLUENZA EPIDEMICS IN EUROPE AND ASIA. — 1580 — 1647 — 1658 — 1675 — 1688 — 1693 — 1709 — 1712 — 1729–30 — 1732–3 — 1742–3 — 1758 — 1761 — 1762 — 1767 — 1775–6 — 1780–1 — 1781–2. — 1788–9 — 1799–1800 — 1802–3 — 1807 — 1830 — 1833 — 1836–7 — 1847–8 — 1850–1; 1857–8; 1873–4; 1875; 1879. — 1889–90 — 1918–9–1920 — NAMES FOR INFLUENZA.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. — INFLUENZA IN HAWAII. — Contagious Nature of Colds or Catarrhs, so Called. — THE EPIDEMIC OF 1889–90. — EARLIER ARRIVAL OF INFLUENZA. — DENGUE.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. — GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. — INFLUENZA-PNEUMONIA. — LEGACIES OF THE “FLU” TO MAN. — IMMUNITY THE KING PROTECTOR. — INCUBATION. — SALIENT POINTS. — QUARANTINE AND ISOLATION. — CAUSE OF THE FLU. — WHY WERE MICROBES CREATED? — SPORES HAVE GREAT VITALITY. — PREVENTIVES OF INFLUENZA? — SALIENT POINTS.
8. 8.(From the Author’s Booklet, “Historical Hawaii.”) — ADMIRAL ADAM. IVAN. KRUSENSTERN. (1770–1846.) — THE AHULAU OKUU . — A POLYNESIAN COLONY LIVES IN PELE LIILII A. D. 1920. — The Land of our Aryan Ancestors. — Farthest East in Polynesia. — POLYNESIAN VITAL STATISTICS.

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