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

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1919
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    PAGE 5. REPORT ON THE BACTERIOLOGY AND PaTHoLoGy oF Forty-stx Fata CasEs OF INFLUENZA . 5 ; : : aoe eke, : , . . Major J. W. Patterson, R.A.M.C. No. 5 General Hospital. Dr. E. Marjory Little, M.B., Att. R.A.M.C. Miss S. E. Williams, A.A.N.S. No. 25 Stationary Hospital. : With a Note on the Preparation of Media for the Cultivation and Study of B. Influenzae (Pfeiffer). Dr. E. Marjory Little, M.B., Att. R.A.M.C. Miss 8S. E. Williams, A.AA.N.S. No. 25 Stationary Hospital. . 88 6. REPORT ON THE Morsrp ANATOMY OF icone ; : A : - 96 Captain T. H. G. Shore, M.B. (Cantab.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.). From Central Mortuary, Etaples Base. 7, REPORT ON PNEUMONIA FOLLOWING INFLUENZA . : A ; ; + 406 Captain A. V. Bock, Med. Corps, U.S. Army. Captain J. L. Stoddard, Med. Corps, U.S. Army. From the Laboratory, No. 13 Generai Hospital. 8. On THE AccoLUTINATION OF B. Influenzae (Pfeiffer) By THE SERUM OF PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM INFLUENZA . : : : : - 108 Captain P. Hartley, R.A.M.C., T.F. From the Laboratory, No. 25 Stationary Hospital. INTRODUCTION. By Cotonet 8. L. CUMMINS, C.M.G., A.M.S. On the reappearance of influenza in epidemic form in October 1918, the officers-in-charge of laboratories throughout the British Expeditionary Force in France were encouraged to pay the closest attention to the disease and to report all findings of interest. At the same time a ° Research Team’ was organized at Abbeville im order that bacteriologists, pathologists, and clinicians might co-operate in the investigation of the epidemiv. The bacteriological and pathological work was entrusted to Major H. Graeme Gibson R.A.M.C. (secretary to the Research Team), Major F. B. Gone C.A.M.C., Captain’ A. T. Nankivell, R.A.M.C., and Captain J. T. Connor, A.A.M.C. Captain A. T. Nankivell was moved to another station in December 1918, after which Captain J. I. Connor took sole charge of the work on morbid histology. The clinical work was entrusted to Major C. E. Sundell, R.A.M.C., officer-in-charge of the medical division of No. 2 Stationary Hospital. He was assisted, during some*weeks, by Captain G. E. Beaumont, R.A.M.C. who, however, had to be transferred elsewhere in the course of military duty before the work was completed. The research work on the role of a filtrable virus in influenza was rendered possible by the generous help of the Medical Research Committee. The provision of monkeys was a matter of no small difficulty, but these were promptly obtained and dispatched to France without delay through the kindness of the secretary, Sir Walter Fletcher, K.B.H., F.R.5., who was, at all times, ready to