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FROM the behaviour of influenza as an epidemic, it seems not unreasonable to suppose that it may have as its cause a living and multiplying organism; and when influenza reappeared, after an interval of many years, in the latter part of 1889, and more especially since, its communicability from person to person, formerly disputed, has come to be generally admitted, the public mind, medical and lay, has been in expectation of the announcement that a specific microbe had been discovered as the cause of the disease.
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P., H. The Alleged Discovery of a Bacillus in Influenza.. Nature 45, 250–251 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045250c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/045250c0