On Influenza

Dr David J. Brakenridge? Mr President and Gentlemen,?It has been felt that it would be well not to allow the present epidemic of so-called influenza to pass over without some attempt?not merely to produce one or two papers on the subject, but, as far as possible, to gather up the experience of the profession in Edinburgh regarding it, and to arrive at some definite conclusions as to the clinical features, etiology, pathology, and treatment of the disease. The following remarks are unfortunately not, as I had hoped they would be when I promised to read this paper, based upon carefully taken records of cases observed in the Royal Infirmary; for it is a remarkable fact that, during the whole progress of the epidemic, not one single typical case of the prevailing disease has been admitted into my wards. Certain severe cases of lung disease there certainly have been, which may have originally developed out of some such influence; but these were of little or no value in