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Show Plagues Not Related. H. Do Brim (Bulletin de l'Acade-mie l'Acade-mie de Medicine), having had several years' experience in Syria with plague, including an epidemic of pneumonic plague, protests against the view that pneumonia following influenza maybe related to the eastern disease. In pneumonic plague the cough is characterized charac-terized by a quiet, spasmodic expiration, expira-tion, repeated continuously for long periods every ten to thirty seconds, nnd might be termed a "whispering cough." Instead of the optimism frequently manifested on the day before death in influenza there Is a distressing consciousness con-sciousness of impending death in the pneumonic plague patient. Nearly all cases of the latter plague end fatally. ; i |