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1626 influenza pandemic
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In 1626 an influenza pandemic spread from Asia to Europe, Africa, North America,https://books.google.com/books?id=2M_nAAAAMAAJ&q=1626+influenza+pandemic Annals of Medical History 1933 P.B. Hoeber. 537 en and South America during the first such pandemic of the seventeenth century.
Asia
Pandemic influenza yet again spread from Anatolia to Europe and Africa through the bustling, international ports of Constantinople.July 2022
Europe
In Europe it started in the southern part of the continent,Sen Rajendra Kumar https://books.google.com/books?id=MdUSAQAAMAAJ&q=influenza+of+1627 A Treatise on Influenza: With Special Reference to the Pandemic of 1918 1923 7 en beginning in Italyhttps://books.google.com/books?id=WJe0AAAAIAAJ&q=1626+influenza Glasgow Medical Journal 1919 9 en and nations bordering the Ottoman Empire.
Sicily and Italian States
European chronicler surnamed Donius, possibly J. B. Donius, described the outbreak in Italy: "The year 1626 is recent in memory, for which winter began with a greatest influence not only in Rome but all of Italy affected together. This was strongly due to the Borcæ wind that followed the southern winds, which stirred up dangerous and corrupt illnesses that were ridiculously called Castrone."Finkler Ditmar 1898 Influenza https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=wWy2ZRmVmY8C&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA17 Twentieth Century Practice - an International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical Practice 15 17 Google Books Donius, like many physicians before the discovery of pathogens, attributed the cause of the generalized outbreaks of respiratory illness to climate.
Influenza diffused throughout Italy. An epidemic hit the Spanish galleys stationed at the port of Genoa.BLANC Abbé Thomas https://books.google.com/books?id=-rFfAAAAcAAJ&q=L'epidemie+de+1626&pg=PA383 Vie de St Camille de Lellis ... composée d'après les documents authentiques, les nombreuses biographies du saint ... et précédée d'une préface de M. l'abbé Mullois 1860 383 fr
England and Ireland
Physicians in England were by then aware that "Colds" occurred in varying degrees, attributing most sudden respiratory illnesses to "humors" affecting the lungs.Anderson Robert https://books.google.com/books?id=LfIKAAAAYAAJ&q=1580+to+1623+the+poore+mans+talentt+the+Cough+pectorals&pg=PA28 The Complete Works of Thomas Lodge 1580-1623? Now First Collected...: Wits, miserie, and the worlds madnesse, 1596. A looking glasse, for London and Englande, 1598. A treatise of the plague, 1603. The poore mans talentt 1623? Miscellaneous pieces. Glossary 1883 The poore Mans Talentt Thomas Lodge Glasgow London 1623 24–26 en
North and South America
By 1627 the flu had reached epidemic levels in North America.https://books.google.com/books?id=1rhCAQAAMAAJ&q=1580+influenza+North+America&pg=PA93 Medical Times 1919 Romaine Pierson Pub. 93 en Flu then spread to the West Indies and South America.
Medicine and treatment
Patients who were bled suffered far higher mortality rates than patients who weren't. In The Poore Mans Talent (c. 1623), a then-popular book by Thomas Lodge dispensing home remedies for common ailments, treatments include lozenges, broths, and oily, vaporous ointments for "Colds" that arises with a "general alteration and hott fevour..."
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