Excerpt from The Journal-Lancet, 1920, Vol. 40: A Semimonthly Medical Journal In this country there have been epidemics in the following years: 1627, 1729, 1759, 1761, 1815, 1826, 1843, 1867, 1873, 1890, and We have had about one epidemic in a genera tion., Now, in spite of the terrible experiences through which civilized and uncivilized men have gone, during these terrible experiences we have never learned anything from any Of them, except perhaps those of 1890 and 1918. I submit that we shall never learn to prevent inuenza, and never learn to cure the disease unless we con tinne to Study it after the epidemic has ended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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