"The Flu": a brief history of influenza in U.S. America, Europe, Hawaii

by A. A. St. M. Mouritz

1788–9

Widespread epidemic in the U. S. A. “Statement of Webster.”

“Influenza is not spread by Infection; sailors on board ships 100 miles from land, and insulated as to infection were attacked.”

**(Influenza is spread by infection, the explanation and defense is the same as just made above.) (Author.)

1799–1800

North Eastern Europe. Epidemic.

1802–3

PANDEMIC V.

1807

PANDEMIC VI.