PARIS

A Contribution to the Epidemiology of Influenza  The Société médicale des hôpitaux de Paris was entertained recently with an elaborate paper by Prof. Fernand Bezançon and his co-workers Chevalley, Pollet and Célice on the widely different characteristics of the more recent epidemics of influenza. The clinical characteristics observed in connection with the epidemic last winter, during the months of January, February and March, were quite different from those observed during the years 1889 and 1918, when influenza raged throughout the world. During the recent epidemic, the nerve manifestations, so characteristic of the type of influenza that prevailed in 1889 and 1918, were much less prominent. The same is true of the hemorrhagic phenomena, although it is true that these were observed to a certain extent. The dominating characteristics were the phenomena of catarrh of the upper respiratory passages and the grave bronchopulmonary manifestations. These manifestations, except for their frequency and