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Credit: Influenza / by W.T. Gairdner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Reprinted from the “ Glasgow Medical Journal” for March, 1890.] INFLUENZA* By W. T. GAIRDNER, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow. Gentlemen,—When your local Secretaries did me the honour to request that I would make some remarks to-day upon the topic that is in every one’s mouth—this being, in their opinion, a proper way oI occupying (say) half an hour of your time at this meeting—I at once said to them that I could not engage to discuss the whole vast subject of epidemic influenza, but only to advert to some, mainly local, aspects of it, and in doing so to make myself the mouthpiece of others rather than to proclaim any new doctrines or views of my own. Presuming, then, on your being, in a general way, well informed already as to those characters of influenza as an epidemic (or, as Hirsch -f- well calls it, 'pandemic) disease, which have been gathered with such care and fulness into his important chapter on the subject, and which are further accessible to all of you in the work of the late Sir Thomas Watson, or in the admirable article by Dr. Parkes, in Reynolds’ System of Medicine, I will confine these observations within such limits as may assist you in determining, if possible, the true signifi- * An Address delivered at the Annual Meeting in Gkisgow, on the 23rd January, 1890, of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Branch, British Medical Association, with numerous added documents, in evidence. t Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology, by Dr. August Hirsch, New Sydenham Society, vol. i, p. 7. A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21914503_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
