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Excerpt from The Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine, Vol. 3 of 4: Comprising Treatises on the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Medical Jurisprudence, Etc., Etc.; Influenza-Rape
The in¿uenza of last year though generally mild in its character, was almost uni versal; for it would seem to have prevailed in both hemispheres in the same year. Accounts have been received of its appearance in India as well as in the United States of America. (ameri can Journ. Of Science, &c. Vol. Xxi. No. 44, p. In many places it has been the precursor of the epidemic cholera. About a month before the latter disease broke out in Warsaw, it pre vailed in that city. (brierre de Boismont sur la Cholera, p. It also swept over great part of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in the spring and autumn, and preceded the milder visitation of epidemic cholera which many parts of Great Britain experienced the same year. Late in the autumn it attacked Paris, the south of Spain, Gibraltar, and Italy, with more severity than it did the British islands. At Rome it was said to occasion great alarm. It has certainly skipped over many countries of Europe in its march from Poland to France through England, so far as we can judge negatively from the want of official re ports; but, with this exception, it has pursued a. Course not widely different from that of similar former epidemics, and has proved to be a true herald of the epidemic cholera in many places.
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