Antiquity of influenza traced by historians over 2300 years
Medical historians trace influenza back to 412 BC with Hippocrates and Livy notes and cite Italy as the origin of the term influenza. The disease appeared sporadically through the Middle Ages and surged in Europe by 1510, with major global pandemics in 1889 90 and waves through 1890s.
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Woman with 22 children found in Bethea township
Frank Watkins reports a Bethea township woman mother of 22 children from two marriages. She had one child by the first husband and 21 by the second. The Dillon County Herald notes the case worse than a New York record of 18. The mother remains strong and active. Also advertised are Hall's Catarrh Medicine and Hall's Family Pills claiming cures with $100 reward for failures.
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Bethea
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Dillion County
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Dillon Herald
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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