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Show a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a A A A A A A A A A A A A A A .. A A A A A a A , . . . A 7. Influenza Plague Once Held Fashionable Cold The word "influenza" came into vogue In English-speaking countries in 1S00. The disease had been epidemic epi-demic in St. Petersburg in 1SS9, and it spread over Europe and to England Eng-land and the United States. In the following spring it was severe In India In-dia and Australia. In most of these countries it was known as "l'iiiflu-enza," "l'iiiflu-enza," or "influenza," though in Taris "la grippe," a term used in the middle mid-dle of the last century, was revived. The word "influenza" was given In Italy toward the middle of the Eighteenth Eight-eenth century to an epidemic of febrile feb-rile catarrh. It was In use In England Eng-land as early as 1702. In that year Mrs. Montague, the "blue stocking." wrote: "Mr. Montacrue ... returned re-turned to London quite well, thouch lie has been much pulled down by the fashionable cold called rinflucnza." A general epidemic of influenza took .-.ince toward the close of the World war, passing over western countries In three waves, the first appearing very suddenly In May and June, 1018, the second In September and October, declining in December and the third in March, lint), lis origin was attributed at-tributed by France to Spain, whence came its most frequently used designation desig-nation of "Spanish influenza." Spain, in turn, attributed the outbreak to France, and this continent thought 't started in eastern Europe. Virtually ail the western nations were heavy sufferers. It was most virulent in (he second wave. Montreal Family Herald. |