The Pathology and Prevention of Influenza (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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I purpose to show in this paper that the symptoms of influenza are owing to the action in the system of a special poison secreted by a pathogenous bacillus that this poison has a special affinity to a definite centre of the nervous system, which is irritated and depressed by it; that an antidote which is able to neutralise the effects of the poison is formed in the blood of the patient, and tends to effect a spontaneous cure of the disease and that the nearest approach to this antidote which we at present possess appears to be animal vaccine lymph, which should therefore be used as a preventive of influenza, in case another epidemic of that distemper should break out in the country.

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