Show I MORE l i ABOUT OUT INFLUENZA Spanish influenza is a very old complaint It is epidemic catarrh characterized by acute inflammation Uon of the mucous membrane of the air- air passages attended by severe constitutional constitutional constitutional disturbances followed by great debility sometimes continuing for several months It is moderately moderate moderate- ly infectious and is caused by the Bacillus and has been known as a catarrhal disease since 1323 In Andrew Jacksons Jackson's time 1829 It was known known as Jacksons itch When Tyler was in the political arena his opponents called a a name of which the latter word has survived for tor years and Is still in use uso in our own time This word grippe one isone is one of the French names for tor influenza To the Russians it is known as the Chinese catarrh The Germans were wont to call It the Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian pest The The Italians appropriately call it the German disease for tor it It reached them through Teutonic sources and the French called it also the Italian fever nr ne doubt associatIng associating associating ing it with the Roman fever and Spanish catarrh but to them them belongs belongs belongs be be- be- be longs the credit of at introducing the term influenza as a generic name This they are said to have done in tn inthe inthe the seventeenth century when they attributed the disease to certain astronomical astronomical astronomical as as- influences Literary Di DI- DI gest |