CHAPTER II.
PANDEMIC II. Started on the north coast of Africa in Algiers and Morocco, in May, also in the Island of Malta.
Spread to the U. S. A. (Authority, Fonseca of Madrid.)
England ravaged August, September, October, November.
Rome, 9,000 persons died.
Barcelona, Cadiz, Cordova, Seville, Madrid and other Spanish cities are said to have been depopulated.
The Spanish Physicians bled their patients, this venesection is said to have been very fatal; those who were not bled, most lived.
Thomas Short, London, 1587, states on page 9, “All had the Coccoluche; few died except those who were bled or had unsound Viscera.”
Anna, wife of Philip I. of Spain, died of the disease.
Pope Gregory XIII. was given up for death, but recovered.
Epidemics in 1591, 1593, 1597, 1626.
Noah Webster states, “For the first time Influenza is mentioned in the history of U. S. America, but it must not be concluded in the absence of earlier records, that the disease never occurred in the U. S. A.”
Webster also cites from Hubbard, “the disease swept the Southern States and the plantations.”
The West Indies were ravaged and had an extensive morbidity; on each of the Islands of Barbadoes and St. Kitts there were 5,000 to 6,000 cases.
Epidemic in Europe, started the end of April. Thomas Wills, M.D. of Oxford, says, “the cause of the disease was a Blast from the Stars.”
Epidemic, ravaged Germany.
Epidemic, began in May. Europe swept. Great mortality in Britain.
Epidemic. Europe.
Epidemic in Europe. France, Germany and Italy chiefly affected.
Europe, epidemic began in Germany. Fever, cough, sense of dread and oppression, painful eyes and great backache. Rapid spread, great and prolonged exhaustion, morbidity great, nearly everyone attacked, mortality very light.
Origin, Moscow, Russia, April, 1729. Morbidity enormous, lightning-like spread. In London great mortality, barely 1% escaped. In the month of September, 1729, over 1,000 persons died each week. Rome had some 60,000 cases. (Authority, Hahn.)
PANDEMIC III. Raged over the entire earth. Spread to U. S. America October, 1732.
La GRIPPE and INFLUENZA appear as names given to the disease for the first time. Epidemic, great morbidity, few deaths.
1758
The Flu prevailed as an epidemic in France, Scotland and the West Indies.
Present in the U. S. A. in the spring.
Epidemic in Europe.
U. S. America, began in month of May.
Spread from Europe to U. S. A. (Authority, Gluge.)
January, 1780, started in France.
PANDEMIC IV. Very severe, widespread. Began in the autumn of 1781 on the borders of China and India, thence spread to Russia and U. S. A.
In 1782 appeared in western Europe; the name given in this Pandemic was RUSSIAN CATARRH.
The British fleet sailed from the Channel ports, Plymouth and Portsmouth, on May 6, 1782. No further contact was had with the land, yet on the 27th of May the Flu broke out on the fleet.
**(The presence of Flu carriers on the ships, or infected stores, clothes and other fomites and only opened after a week or two at sea; also the Flu being epidemic at the ports of departure, will amply account for this alleged miracle) (Author.)
Widespread epidemic in the U. S. A. “Statement of Webster.”
“Influenza is not spread by Infection; sailors on board ships 100 miles from land, and insulated as to infection were attacked.”
**(Influenza is spread by infection, the explanation and defense is the same as just made above.) (Author.)
North Eastern Europe. Epidemic.
PANDEMIC V.
PANDEMIC VI.
PANDEMIC VII. The seat of the outbreak was Manila, P.I., in September. It spread to the U. S. A.
1833
Epidemic in Northern Asia, Europe, North Africa. In St. Petersburg great morbidity, none escaped.
PANDEMIC VIII. Starting point obscure, but in the Eastern Hemisphere. Morbidity and Mortality large. Pulmonary Influenza or Influenza-Pneumonia cases very common.
In London, for the week ending January 24, 1837, there died 1166 persons; and for the week ending January 31, the death rate reached a total of 1169; these deaths were solely due to Flu.
PANDEMIC IX. Point of origin unknown; center of the focus of the disease the Eastern Hemisphere and Europe especially. More females than males were attacked.
Great mortality; of those affected with the disease, there died
83% of children, babies and infants.104% of those 15 to 60 years.247% of those over 60 years.
83% of children, babies and infants.104% of those 15 to 60 years.247% of those over 60 years.
83% of children, babies and infants.104% of those 15 to 60 years.247% of those over 60 years.
83% of children, babies and infants.
104% of those 15 to 60 years.
247% of those over 60 years.
(Authority, Peacock.)
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(Authority, Peacock.)
In Paris ¼ to ½ of the population were attacked.
In Geneva ⅓ of the population were attacked.
In London 250,000 were said to have been stricken.
U. S. America escaped the disease.
Influenza prevalent in both Hemispheres.
PANDEMIC X. Started at Bukhara, in Russian Turkestan, large province situated to the east of the Caspian sea; March, 1889. Very vicious in its morbidity and spread, acted as never before; ran over the whole globe in a few months.
CONTAGIOUS: which hitherto in doubt, was clearly demonstrated by this Epidemic, which spread from Asia to Russia.
America was infected from both Siberia and Europe. Tropical and temperate countries, mountain and plain, were all swept over alike.
PANDEMIC XI. Origin in south eastern Spain, Barcelona, a seaport; April, 1918, where a German submarine is said to have carried it; originally acquired by this boat at the Baltic port or ports of Danzig or Stettin.
Swept Europe and entered Asiatic Russia, later Japan. U. S. America was infected at its Pacific and Atlantic ports.
The conditions of trade and commerce during the World War were unusually favorable for the carrying of Influenza to the U. S. A.
America the great-souled, as always, acting most generously, putting herself on short rations in order to feed the starving millions of the world, and sending her ships with food and clothing to the Flu-infected ports, carried back the disease to her own people.