Sisley on Epidemic Influenza
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existence of atmospheric contamination and aerial currents and waves. The main object of Dr. Sisley's book is to " demonstrate the contagious nature of influenza, and urge the propriety of its being included among the diseases of which notification is compulsory." In support of his opinion that influenza is contagious, and that it is chiefly, if not entirely, spread by contagion he advances evidence to prove : ? "(1) That influenza spreads from the sick to the sound by contagion. (2) That isolated cases of influenza precede
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