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Medically, 1918 started off like many of the years before.

The New England Journal kicked off the year with a treatise on the differential diagnosis of chronic

cough which they called pulmonary tuberculosis.

From the article quote, someone has said that every cough of two months duration is due to

tuberculosis. This is of course absurd.

Which is amazing and I wish we could write like that now. If only. So it goes on to mention that

cases of what they called chronic influenza rockiectuses were wrongly diagnosed as TB.

Interestingly it's because the sputum from those patients often yielded something called

influenza bacilli. Wait influenza bac bessile? Influenza is a virus, not a bacteria.

Yeah, and that threw me off too. The thing is that this is the age when germ theory is just taking off,

and so the modern understanding of viruses isn't really there.

And it turns out that they were actually talking about the bacteria we now know as

hemophilus influenza which at the time they thought caused influenza, hence the name.

So we reviewed a lot of old journal editions from 1918 to 1919, expecting to find sensationalized headlines about the 1918 flu pandemic.

But we found these instead.

For example, the health benefits of quote

horse flesh as food.

Or articles from World War

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