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The Successful Treatment of Influenza
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The Health Bulletin, Volume 34, Issue 10, October 1919
The entire issue is devoted to pandemic influenza.

Interview with Sadie Ollison McGlone, 23 April 2007 (U-0342) [audio clip]
McGlone recalls that her older sister was born while her father was stationed in Kentucky. The sister died from influenza before her father could get home to see her.

Interview with Robert McKinney Martin, 28 October 1996 and 14 November 1996 (J-0043) [audio clip]
Judge Martin describes his memories about the 1918 flu pandemic.

Interview with Gladys and Glenn Hollar, 26 February 1980 (H-0128) [audio clips]
In these two audio clips, Glenn Hollar describes his memories about the 1918 flu pandemic.

Interview with Dorcas Elizabeth Carter, 25 June 1999 (K-0235) [audio clip]
Carter describes her memories of the influenza pandemic in 1919. She used to want to be a nurse, perhaps because of the pandemic. Her uncle told her she shouldn't be a nurse because there's too much drudgery.

Interview with James and Nannie Pharis, 8 January 1979 (H-0039) [audio clip]
In this audio clip, James and Nannie Pharis describe their memories about the 1918 influenza epidemic.

Interview with Naomi Sizemore Trammell, 25 March 1980 (H-0258) [audio clip]
Trammell speaks about the medical care she received during the influenza pandemic.

Flu-fall in proportion to resident population in individual districts
Map showing the prevalence of influenza in eleven districts of the Canton of Aargau (Switzerland).

Kanton Aargau [graph]
Graph showing weekly statistics pertaining to the influenza epidemic in Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, July 1918-May 1919. The graph shows the number of people who contracted influenza versus the number of people who died from the illness.

Transcript of the interview with Gladys and Glenn Hollar, 26 February 1980 (H-0128)
Gladys Irene Moser Hollar and her husband, Glenn Hollar, describe their childhood in rural North Carolina and their working lives in the glove industry and elsewhere. The Hollars grew up in large families in which everyone had to contribute to eke…

Ferula asafoetida
Ferula asafoetida was one of the many remedies used to avoid catching influenza. The only proven way to avoid catching influenza was to stay away from other people carrying the influenza virus.

Interview with the Robert McKinney Martin, 28 October 1996 and 14 November 1996 (J-0043)
One of a series of interviews conducted by students of the University of North Carolina School of Law, with North Carolina lawyers and judges, some of whom are also politicians. Topics include interviewees' personal and professional lives; thoughts…

Transcript of the interview with Sadie Ollison McGlone, 23 April 2007 (U-0342)
McGlone was born on October 12, 1924 in Mesic, North Carolina; eldest of eight children growing up on family farm; childhood in Mesic; struggle to maintain family land, especially land on water, from white developers; primary education in segregated…
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