3-075-010 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The influenza - and various other influences, 1890. 1. 'The man who can't go to business. 2. The children who mustn't go to school. 3. One determined to Keep up his strength. 4. One obliged to buy something warmer than last year's fashion. 5. One who finds this an unfailing remedy. 6. One who feels poorly, but was at a City dinner the night before. 7. One who says, Influenza or no Influenza, she is not going to miss her dance. The startling, sudden rapidity with which this strange visitation of disease has spread over Europe...having apparently originated in Siberia or Northern China...has much affected the public mind...the opinion most generally entertained is that of a specific poison, very possibly a microbe, or some invisible germ of parasitic organism, being inhaled...the influenza seems more especially to be attracted by large establishments, such as barracks, public offices, factories, schools, and great workshops, in which numbers of people are collected together...there is some risk of an accidental chill, after the influenza, resulting in pulmonary congestion, which has been fatal to hundreds of persons...drugs will he found to be of little value...Field-Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala [has] fallen victim to the epidemic'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.