ï~~ 'icaiSence Newest iscoveries Abou the 5 panish Influenza' How the First Real Epidemic of **,the World War Spread From the - German Trenches'--and Why Sci-? ANV ence Believes It Has Averted All Danger of Catastrophic Pestilences - w Such as Have Followed kMany/of the Great -aWars of the Past Map showing the course taken by the miscalle "Spanish Infusez" from the Trenches to the United States. Originating within the German lines it tst spread throunh Ger many, having been communicated by soldiers on leave or ret rning wounded. Making its v'cy through prisoners into France, it followed, through ca es not yet known, a well marked line into Spain, where it increased in virulency anlained its name. From Spain it returned again to France, from whence it was carri e4by infected persons os ship-. both to England and to A merica. Its transmisaion into he Scandinavian neutral countries, where it has claimed many tires,,seems to have beln by way of'Belgium and Hollard. Great War Festilences of the Past Photographic diagram of the nasal and the laryn geal passages which are the seat of infection. It is everyone's duty to keep these passages clean and disease resistant by some mild and sas'santiseptic. M IRACLLOUS destruction of Sennach arib'e army,f 185,000 men before Jerusalem, dcscr:bed in the Bible, be licved to have been caused by bubonic plague. -. Athens depopulate.! by typhus in 430 B. C. as a se ucl to the Peloponnesian War. lime ravaged by plague from,81 to 90 A. D. after cruel persecution of Christians by Emperor Domitian. During another plague outbreak in Rome 590 A. I). thousands fell dead in mourning procession passing through the strects. 1294 A. D. first g:eat outbreak of "Black Death" or bubonic plague in medinval Europe-brought there from the East. Seventy-five million people killed in Europe by "Black Death" in thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, while "lHundred Years' War" raged.between England and France. Another great outbreak of plague in Eu rope in seventeentl century, after the "Thirty Years' War" endirg with the famous "Grean Plague" of Lopdon of 1863, described by De foe, when the city was nearly deserted by all but ghouls and robbers, when nobles abandon ed their palaces add merchants thefr stores. In 1721 plague depopulated Marseilles, so that there was noone to bury the dead, and 20,000 bodies littered the streets. Plague attacked' Napoleon's army in Pali estine in 1799. r Mgae" isma119 Newest Discoveries About Sp h Influenza THE first really serious epidemic of dis ease produced by the great w:;r is that called "the Spanish influenza," which has caused deplorable.mortali' y. At the outset it should be said that the term "Spanish influenza' is clearly an error, and that the name should be "German influenza," for investigation proves that the distaae originated in the German trenches. It has silce made a tour of the entire civilized world, in the course of which it broke out with especial severity in Spain' owing to certain local conditions. The French, roting its ravages in Spain, and not having suffered very badly themselves, gave it the title "Spanish influenza." That this should be the only epidemic disease produced by the world war is a remarkable proof of the protection afforded to us by modern medicne and hygiene. After nearly all other great wars, as a result of the misery, atarvati-n and enfeeblement of the population, there have been great outbreaks of pestilence, which have depopulated cities and even countries. The disease generally known as "the bubon the great ravages of past war epochs, Its eI plague" is the great plague which cause cost in human lives has not been less than two billions. In addition, outbreaks of smallpox, 'in the neck, in tie spine, and in the smnal of the back are geneally present. Then "that tired feeling," named by doe tors "general malaise," takes charge of the sufferer's anatom, The victim feels wretched all over. Fever listers, those frequent ac companiments of ' eumonia, of meningitis and of tertian mala rIT"break out" oil the sufer cr's lips. The face becorpes fiushed, a thermometer stuck under the sfngne registers 102 to 104 degrees, and the ctim as well as his doctors know he's in fo t badly. Spanish influen a "cures or kills" in Liberty motor speed. W hin four days the worst is usually over. A t the second day the abrupt crisis takes place... On the fourth day the pa tient is either as well as ne ever was, or pneu monia or another complication aserts its dangerous presence. A harsh cough is a frequently encountered symptom. The patient thus hacks end sprays forth lots of the microbes, which spread the infection rapidly unless handled with the greatest precaution. A thick, tenacious sputum of a whitish mu coid character distinguishes this new disease'a front the wgill-known old influenza with its greenish sputum. This also distinguishes Spanish influenza from pneumonia, frith its Masks Se as.uThis Ae....g.We..by..f. ferers iscoC..ps, by a'.sWhe Corns. is eetact witls 'Them., Th w'lay Doing Away with Danger of Camsaui catlseg the lateetie.. which causes this plague was run to earth it a model of the bactieriologieal skill, suprenacy, elame sand pieae of the Esglish a American nmedical stafi.,, It was recegaised that the rapidity with which the contagien spread pretty well pointed to sope microbjor bacterium as the guiltparty. It was also argued that the causative agent must lurk at least a large part of the time in or near the air passages of the victim. The coughs, the sputum, the poenmnia and bronchitis complications, the spray from the nose and thtoat as it came in direct contact with the men or reached them through plates, dishes and linens, seemed to invite bacteriological searches and microscopic studies' Fortunately for all of us on thil side of the ocean, medical science has succeeded in iso lating and identifying the germs in just that way at the 'very beginning of the American epidemic, which is therefore likely to be nippad in the bud'i The new bacillus is not in the blood. i Cultivation of it is impossible from this source. It is lucky that so demoniacal a bug does not penetrate the delicate fluid tissue of m.o Thest natisnam., wnnl nerkana be 1. The English Artist Collier's fames. picture of 'The I ravaged England and almost all of Euro espzulua eare new impossible, modern medical sc ee har with thea. The iagiensa, bad as it is, is a sligh lences that followed wars. solate a bacterium and under the microscope and as t resembles eran when stained blue or other- ravages wise dyed the diploeooct of pneumonia or men- It is sig ingitis-both of whicha also look alike-they many as "put iodine on its tail," as it were. If it has bee "takes" it is thus differentiated into one or two two cen'