Logan Republican | 1907-03-23 | Page 7 | "Influenza"

"Influenza." H "Infltie'iz?"' wau. originally an Ital- H lau word for "Influbncc," and, among H other things, for tho "Influence" of the H start! which manifested Itsolf bale- fully In epidemics of dlseaso, Henco B "Influenza dl fchbro scarlatina," for H instance, meant an "epidemic of scar-1 scar-1 let fever." And so, whin eighteenth f century Ittv'y was prostrated by the HV sneezing, snuffling ecourgo and passed flfl it on to England, It was naturally H spoken of as "tho" Influenza "tho" H epidemic; though on tho way through. H Franco It acciulrcd also tho namo "la H grippe," In allusion to its ferocious H way of seizing Its victims.