@misc{10481/78805,
year = {1985},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78805},
abstract = {In the years 1708 and 1709 an outbreak of respiratory disease afflicted
almost all of western Europe. It was descnbed by the famous Giovanni
Maria Lancisi (1654-1 720), who designated it as epidemia rheumatica, (1) a term
which reflects the Hippocratic and Galenic concept that the disease is a
rheuma or flow of noxious humors which descend from the brain (2). The
outbreak was discussed repeatedly by Lancisi's contemporaries (3) and by
writers of subsequent times. Recently the subject was studied anew by the
senior author of (4) the present essay, who agreed with several previous commentators in characterizing the disease as inJuenza, and by Prof. Guillermo
Olagüe de Ros (5), who used such equivalent Spanish terms as brote pipa1
and gripe. The former of these recent authors injudiciously designated the
outbreak as 'pandemic', while the latter used more conservative term 'epidemic'
and included with his discussion a map, which shows the affected area
to have included almost all of western Europe and part of central Europe,
including Carniola (in what is now Yugoslavia), as well as Bohemia and westem
Poland. Left blank or situated beyond the limits of the map are Great
Britain, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean
islands west of Sicily. (see: Dynamis, vol. 1, page. 72 (1981)).},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada},
title = {The epidemic or Pandemic of Influenza in 1708-1709},
author = {Jarcho, Saul and Richards, Katherine M.},
}