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Show i 'TU.'-'l fri'.'U COl'..'i!i: I;';, ap'l found an-l si.or'cn.?-! the cotir.-e ot the uieas-j. Lrj. J. J. K.-cyan and M . J. K-jSMiau report i i: ' 1 : equally clicoi;ra;i!ii:. Harvard's medica! !: ;.--:i:s to be I the first of tl.c b: univrraitivs to send i j the couuTy a Le;u".e:i;.'i'' word, jtl'.ubt tho ot!;r r.;at iuri:u::on, all j of which have Wu p'lrsuiii research j worl: wi'h a view to waging war on tl.i inf hi'iiiza, will have discovered some-! some-! tiling of prom i-,e. The people await' tlieir reports with the earnest hope that their news will te -;ood news. INFLUENZA SERUMS. The medical profession throughout the United States appears to be fairly well in accord on the view that there will be a recurrence of the Spanish influenza in-fluenza during the coming fall and winter. There is a current of opinion that the disease, in pandemic form, will be less fatal than it was last year; but that, in epidemic form, it will again take a heavy toll of life in localities where the outbreaks are the more severe. se-vere. The people of the nation have, since the subsidence of the scourge last spring-, lived in the hope that the doctors doc-tors would discover an efficacious cure as well as a preventive remedy. The death rate from the influenza will depend de-pend upon the progress medical science has made in' the perfection of a serum with which to fight the disease. "Experts of the big medical schools hold out hope that a means of combating combat-ing the "flu" has probably been found.. The uncertainty as to tho nature na-ture of the- infection, the varied character char-acter of the effects found in the lungs of- different patients and the multiplicity multi-plicity of the various complicating organisms or-ganisms which invade the lungs when weakened by the influenza have combined com-bined to make exceedingly difficult the task of finding a serum. Prominent members of the staff of tho Harvard medical school, however, report that, as a result of a long series of experiments, science will face the return of the disease dis-ease with greater chance of success than before. Seven experts of the Harvard staff, who served in the medical corps of the navy, report that what appears to them to be an efficient serum has been developed de-veloped from convalescent patients, a thing which was practically unknown at the time of last year's spread. One of tlse, Dr. F. H. Kapoport, conducted experiments ex-periments with 313 serums, finding 54 per cent "positive." In a joint report for the navy department, de-partment, Drs. E. W. Goodpasture and F. L. Burnett have made noteworthy contributions to tho understanding of the various .tiiis which follow the influenza in-fluenza and which so often have proved fatal to the weakened patient. Prs. L. YV. McGuire aud V. K. Lcd.len ex- |