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Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1918, Page 3

KECORDS QV PREVIOUS PANDEMICS. A medical correspondent supplies the following to the Dominion: Influenza may be followd into tho remotest periods from -which we have any epidemiological .records at all, and pandemics have been observed in various parts of the gloho from tho twelfth century onwards. X'.imcror.s pandemics appear to have occurred in the 18th century, and three at least stj.nd out prominently in the 19th—-the 1837-38, the IM7-48, and the 1881)1895 respectively. A pandemic is generally succeeded by epidemics, and by endemic prevalence in some areas. The disease is said to be endemic in Cliiua. The RegistrarGeneral estimates <that during the years 1890-93 influenza v/r>.<i accountable for 125.000 deaths in England. There was evidence of abatement in 1594, but in 1895 the deaths were in marked ex«ess; the two following years again Bkowed diminution. More than one quarter of the onnulation. of London suffered during the pandemic of 1847-48. In Paris the proportion was nearly one-half. There are the (1) respiratory type, (2) gastric type, (3) nervous type, (4) febrile type. The remedy that is most deserving of confidence in tbe treatment of influenza is quinine. It seems to be really an antitoxin in this disease. Mos.se has diown that the bacillus of influenza is onaMe to live in an organism in which quinine circulate?. Babbits were protected by suheutanetf-is injections of quinine against the I '--' of influenza patients, as -well as\«-ainst prone cultunc «f FfeiSert tawaUw.