Studies of influenza in hospitals of the British armies in France, 1918.

Date:
1919
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Credit: Studies of influenza in hospitals of the British armies in France, 1918. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    work done up to that point, however, of which a preliminary account was given in the British Medical Journal of December 14, — 1918, are here presented by Major Gibson’s colleagues. As is well known, similar results as to the experimental transmission of the disease in animals by a filter-passing virus were being obtained quite independently at the same time by workers in another Army laboratory at Etaples, and these have been recently published.t It is plainly of the first importance that both sets of imquiries should be repeated by other hands, and that confirmation of their findings should be sought in every direction. 1 Bradford, Wilson, and Bashford, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1919, 12, 259. MerpicaL RESEARCH COMMITTEE, 15 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. 2. June 30, 1919.