INFLUENZA.
On influenza, as on other subjects, it seems that doctors disagree. In the interesting paper which Professor Biiumler, of Switzerland, has read at tho Vienna Medical Congress he traverses at least one point made by the medical authority who gave forth his views in tho Times tho other day. This is as to the way in which the disease was wafted across the world. In the Times it was remarked that, curious as it might seem, the rapidity with which the disease pursued its course on tho present occasion was not one whit superior to its performance a century ago. Then, in spite of the fact that there did not yet exist the steam communication which now covers Europe with a network over land and sea for the interchange of ideasand diseases —the influenza fiend, according to this authority, spread just as swiftly from land to land. But Professor Baumler's account is that "it can be proved almost mathematically that it has followed the railway lines, its velocity being equal to that of the trains."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8288, 21 June 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)
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