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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

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by Laura Spinney


  herbal medicine 125

  Hesse, Hermann 262

  Heys, T. Heyward 75

  Hinduism/Hindus 206–7, 258

  Hippocrates/Hippocratic oath 13–14, 20, 27, 28, 62, 123

  Hodge, Private Donald 39

  Hoffman, Dr Rolla E. 115, 116, 117, 119, 120

  Holocene epoch 277

  Holst, Gustav: The Planets 30

  homeopathy 121, 125, 235, 236

  honeybees 89

  Hong Kong 169

  bird flu (1997) 189, 276

  ‘Hong Kong flu’ (1968) 186, 199

  SARS (2003) 62

  Hopei province, China 158, 170

  horse flu 197, 198–9

  Hotovitzky, Father Dimitri (‘Father Hot Whiskey’) 143, 148

  House, Edward 251

  Hultin, Dr Johan 190–91, 196, 232

  ‘humours’, the four 14

  Hundred Years War (1337–1453) 290

  Hungary 45, 202

  hunter-gatherers 15–16, 20

  Hussein, Imam 119

  Hylan, John 111

  Ibarra, Dr Luis 82

  Ice Age, Little 22

  Iceland 93

  Igbo, the 65

  Igyararmuit, Alaska 147–8

  Iijima, Wataru 169–70

  immune system, human 26, 181, 185, 191, 192, 194, 195–6, 206, 208, 217, 278, 281

  immunity 16, 18, 19, 20, 95, 98, 109, 180, 185, 278

  ‘herd immunity’ 280, 281

  Inca Empire 22

  India 7, 43, 215–16, 254, 255–8

  adivasis (‘scheduled tribes’) 258

  Amritsar massacre (1919) 259–60

  Ayurveda 125, 257–8

  and British rule 99–100, 113, 139, 254, 255, 256

  fertility rates post-flu 216

  flu mortality rates 169, 170, 202, 203, 206—7, 270

  Hinduism 206–7

  hospital sweepers 138–9

  independence movement 8, 254–5, 256, 257, 258, 260

  literature 270–71

  plague (1896–1914) 139

  witch doctors 125

  writers 270–71

  see also Bombay; Gandhi, Mohandas

  Indian National Congress party 260

  Industrial Revolution 23

  ‘influenza’ 22–3, 64

  insurance, health 31, 240

  in USA 229, 243

  interferon 192, 208, 209

  International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva 168–9, 245

  International Office of Public Hygiene, Paris 94, 245

  iodine 123

  Iquitos, Peru 45

  Iran see Mashed; Persia; Tehran

  Iraq 19, 250

  Ireland 75

  writers 27, 234, 263, 266

  Islam/Muslims 112, 115, 117, 119, 126, 137, 258

  ‘Israelites, the’ (Christian movement) 225–6

  Italy/Italians 20, 22–3, 38, 43, 102–3, 198

  Black Death 139–40

  literature 262, 266

  olive tree disease 282–3

  World War I deaths 6

  see also New York City; Rome

  Ivanovksy, Dmitri 26–7

  Ivory Coast 236

  Iwaszkiewicz, Jarosław 265—6

  The Maids of Wilko 229

  Jacobs, Dr Maurice 138

  Jamanta see Cordeiro, José Luís

  Japan/Japanese 38, 43, 45, 64, 269

  and China 70, 71, 154, 251

  eugenics 29

  kanpo 125

  and Korea 99, 154. 203, 254

  literature 264

  mask-wearing 1, 97

  Jaroslav (troopship) 41, 204

  Jebb, Eglantyne 246

  Jenner, Edward 98

  Jews/Jewish communities

  and anti-Semitism 128, 245

  ‘black weddings’ 126, 131–2, 133

  and Buber 267

  in New York 126

  in Odessa 126, 127, 128–9, 131–2, 134, 135, 236

  Talmud 5

  and tuberculosis 107

  in Zamora 205

  Johannesburg 204

  Johnson, J. Franklin 203–4

  Johnson, Niall 170–71

  Jolobe, James: ‘Ingqawule’ 224

  Jones, Ernest 266

  Jordan, Edwin 166, 167, 170

  Josephina 225

  Joyce, James: Ulysses 27, 263

  Judaism 137

  see Jews/Jewish communities

  Jung, Carl Gustav 40

  Jünger, Ernst: Storm of Steel 248

  Kaffa (Feodosia, Ukraine) 76

  Kafka, Franz 42, 266–7

  Kansas 163, 165, 189, 197

  see also Camp Funston

  Keegan, John 180

  Kemal, Mustafa (‘Atatürk’) 39–40

  Keynes, John Maynard: The Economic Consequences of the Peace 249–50

  Kheda, India 255, 256, 258

  Kholodnaya, Vera 129–30, 133–5

  Kiev, Ukraine 129, 131, 133

  Kimberley diamond mines, South Africa 77–8, 204, 223

  King, Captain James Joseph 153–4

  Klimt, Gustav 234, 239, 262

  Medicine 234, 239

  Knoll, Max 184

  Koch, Robert 25, 27, 66, 154

  Koo, Wellington 250

  Korea 99, 154, 203, 254

  Künz, Ernst 240–41, 243

  Kurowsky, Agnes von 262

  Lacassagne, Antoine 177–8, 180

  La Guardia, Fiorello 112

  Lancet (journal) 161

  Landauer, Gustav 267

  Lantis, Margaret: ‘The Religion of the Eskimos’ 142

  Last Tango (film) 133

  Lawrence, D. H. 264

  Lady Chatterley’s Lover 264

  Lawrence, T. E. 250

  ‘lazarettos’ 91

  League of Nations 242, 246, 251

  Lebailly, Charles 179, 180

  Léderrey, Ernest 168–9

  Leeuwenhoek, Antony van 25

  Leibniz, Gottfried 29 and n, 262

  Lenin, Vladimir 67, 241, 252

  leprosy 16, 232

  Leviathan, SS 41, 47–8, 104

  Liberal, El (newspaper) 81

  life expectancy 217

  Lima, Peru 44, 45

  Lima Barreto, Afonso Henriques de: Cemetery of the Living 269

  Lincean Academy, Rome 238

  literature

  American 262, 264, 265, 266

  Brazilian 268–9

  British 263, 264, 265

  Chinese 269–70

  German 262–3

  Indian 270–71

  Irish 27, 234, 263, 266

  Italian 262, 266

  Japanese 264

  Odessan 131, 135

  Spanish 267–8

  Livy: History of Rome 20

  Lloyd George, David 132–3, 250

  Loewenstein, Sophie (née Freud) 266

  London 41–2, 44, 103, 264

  cholera 27–8

  Great Plague (1665) 136

  the ‘Great Stink’ 27–8

  Lu Xun 269, 270

  ‘Medicine’ 269–70

  Ludendorff, General Erich 39, 247, 249, 250

  Lust, Benedict 235

  Lynn, Kathleen 75–6

  Lyons, France 77

  McAlmon, Robert 80

  McBride, Theresa: The Domestic Revolution 203

  McGillycuddy, Julia Blanchard 146

  McGillycuddy, Dr Valentine 124, 145–6, 147, 148

  Madrid, Spain 63, 267

  Real Madrid Football Club 236

  Majmundar, Gangabehn 258

  Majorca 28, 209

  malaria 16, 95, 122, 128, 206, 216

  Mamelund, Svenn-Erik 219

  Manchuria 154, 169

  see also Harbin

  Mandela, Nelson 30

  Manila, Philippines 94

  Mann, Thomas: The Magic Mountain 262

  Mansfield, Katherine 262

  Marajó Island, Brazil 44

  Marañón, Gregorio 267–8
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  Marblehead, USS 145–6, 148

  Marquet, Mary 294

  Martinique 41

  Marto, Francisco and Jacinta 78–9

  Mary I, of England 20

  Mashed (Mashhad), Persia 7, 43, 92, 112–20

  American Hospital 115, 119

  the British 114–15, 117

  burials/graves 116, 117, 118, 120

  cholera 115, 116, 117

  Muharram processions 119

  Reza Shrine 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118

  masks, wearing of 1, 97, 103, 205

  Massine, Léonide 41–2

  Mau, the 253

  Maurois, André 29, 177, 262

  Mbeki, Thabo, President of South Africa 283

  measles 16, 17, 142

  Mechnikov, Ilya 26, 128, 154, 175, 179, 235

  medicines 124–5

  see also alternative medicine; antibiotics; drugs

  Medina del Campo, Spain 95

  Mehta, Kalyanji 257, 258, 259

  Mehta, Kunvarji 257, 258, 260

  melancholia, post-flu 218–20, 229, 293

  meningitis 43

  Menninger, Karl 220

  mercury 124, 145–6

  Miami, Florida 197

  ‘miasma’ 14, 27–8, 75, 125

  microbes 14, 16–17, 26

  microscopes 184

  electron microscopes 184, 190, 272–3

  Milan, Italy 43

  Miller, Katherine 141, 146–7, 149

  Miller, William 115–16, 119

  Miner, Dr Loring 163

  Miró, Joan 30

  missionaries 138

  in Africa 224, 237

  American 71, 72, 74, 115, 116, 117, 246, 255

  in China 7, 71, 72, 74, 156, 158, 169

  in India 206–7

  in Mashed, Persia 115, 117, 119

  Modernism 265

  Mole, Arthur 289

  Sincerely Yours, Woodrow Wilson 286–7, 289

  ‘molecular clocks’ 196–7, 198, 199, 280–81

  molecular genetics 31

  monkey pox 62

  Montreal, Canada 75

  Morens, David 199, 275

  Mormons 207–8

  Moscow 4, 43, 67, 127, 129, 134

  Moss, Cynthia 89–90

  Müller, Jürgen 170–71

  Mumbai see Bombay

  mumps 17

  Munch, Edvard 24, 219–20

  The Scream 24, 219

  Murnau, F. W.: Nosferatu (film) 266

  Mushanokōji, Saneatsu 264

  Love and Death 264

  music, post-flu 261, 265–6

  Muslims see Islam

  mustard gas 161, 194

  N see neuraminidase

  N1 antigen 196

  Nairobi, Kenya 44

  ‘Naples Soldier’ 63, 81, 95

  Napoleon, Harold 233

  Yuuyaraq 233

  Napoleonic Army 67

  National Academy of Medicine, US 275

  National Institute for Medical Research, London 181

  National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 193–4

  Native Americans 21

  natural selection 17, 29

  naturopathy 121, 235, 236, 238

  Nava, José 49

  Nazi Party 238–9

  abortions 244

  eugenics 244, 246

  healthcare 243–4

  ‘sterilisation law’ 244

  Necker Hospital for Sick Children, Paris 208

  Nemolovsky, Alexander, Archbishop 148

  Netherlands: horse flu 199

  neuraminidase (N antigen) 184, 185, 186

  New Idria mercury mines, California 124, 145–6

  New Orleans 102

  newspapers 54, 79, 81, 82, 83, 102, 108–11, 203–4, 259, 260

  New York City 41, 43, 44–5, 92, 103–5, 164, 176

  Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan 107

  Calvary Cemetery 110–11

  Church of Our Lady of Pompeii, Greenwich Village 110

  first public housing project 112

  funerals 110–11

  Italian-Americans 7, 105–12, 126, 202, 203, 222, 236

  Jewish ‘black wedding’ 126

  Mount Carmel Hospital 222

  Mount Hebron Cemetery 126

  public health campaigns 105, 109

  schools 104, 108–9

  New York Times 38, 234–5, 236

  New Zealand 93, 94, 205, 253

  Nicolle, Charles 179, 180

  Nigeria: the Igbo 65

  NIH see National Institutes of Health

  Niña, La 276–7

  Niño, El 276–7

  Nirala (poet) 270–71

  ‘Beggar’ 271

  Nkwenkwe, Bungu 223

  Nkwenkwe, Nontetha 221, 222–7, 237

  Nobel Prize winners 26, 30, 95, 136–7, 175, 215, 270

  ‘nocebos’ 125–6

  North China Herald 170

  North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service 242

  Norway/Norwegians 24, 103, 202

  baby boom (1920) 216

  melancholia 219–20

  Nosferatu (film) 266

  Nushagak, Alaska 148

  Odessa, Russia (Ukraine) 7, 38, 126–7, 129, 130–31, 133

  Bacteriological Station 128, 129

  cholera 130, 131, 132

  Jewish ‘black weddings’ 131–2, 133

  Jewish cemeteries 131–2, 135

  Jewish community 126, 127, 128–9, 131–2, 134, 135

  Jewish Hospital 129, 130, 132, 168

  Old City Hospital 167–8

  plague cemeteries 127

  University 129, 135

  see also Kholodnaya, Vera

  olive tree disease 282–3

  O’Neill, Eugene: The Straw 263

  orphans 4, 5, 12, 147, 149, 212–13, 229, 230–31, 232, 283, 294

  Osler, William 45

  Oslo, Norway 202

  osteopathy 121

  Ottoman Empire 113, 250, 267

  Outbreak (film) 275, 282

  Owen, Wilfred 161

  owls 75, 277

  Oxford, John 162, 189

  P, Rolando 221, 222

  Pacific Islands/Islanders 21, 205

  Pakistan 115, 202

  palaeoclimatology 21, 22

  Palestine 267

  Palma, Majorca 28, 209

  Pan American Health Organization 246

  ‘pandemics’ 3, 4, 5–6, 21, 22, 182, 275

  as acts of God 292

  flu 6–9, 182, 185–6, 275, 276, 293

  predicting 276, 277–9

  Paranhos da Beira, Portugal 75

  Parikh, Shankarlal 258

  Paris, France 3, 31, 45, 48, 63, 123–4, 175, 203

  Apollinaire’s funeral 3–4

  flu 250–51, 294

  International Office of Public Hygiene 92, 245

  peace conference 45, 245, 250

  see also Pasteur Institute

  Park, William 176, 177

  Parkinson’s disease 221, 222

  Parral, Chile 68

  Pasteur, Louis 25, 26, 27, 29, 97, 98, 128, 129, 175, 210

  Pasteur Institute, Paris 97, 175, 176, 178, 179, 245

  see also Tehran; Tunis

  Patterson, David 167, 168, 169, 170

  Paula Rodrigues Alves, Francisco, President of Brazil 52, 53

  Paustovksy, Konstantin 129–30, 135

  Pedro II, Emperor Dom 52

  Peking (Beijing) 38, 69, 170

  Union Medical College 245

  penicillin 238

  Perinthus, Greece 13, 14

  Pershing, General John ‘Black Jack’ 37

  Persia (Iran) 30, 116, 119, 202, 245

  and British–Russian ‘Great Game’ 43, 113, 116

  railways 30

  see also Mashed; Tehran

  Peru 22, 44, 45

  Pfeiffer, Richard 27, 38, 176, 180–81

  ‘Pfeiffer’s bacillus’ (Haemophilus influenzae) 27, 38, 66, 97, 98, 176, 177, 180–81, 238


  phagocytosis 26

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 198, 236

  Philippines, the 80, 94, 202

  Picasso, Pablo 3

  pigs 18, 189, 194, 197, 199

  see also ‘swine flu’

  Pirandello, Luigi 262

  Six Characters in Search of an Author 266

  Pizarro, Francisco 22

  placebos 122, 125

  plagues 62, 67, 70, 76, 92, 139, 154, 164, 290

  Black Death 4, 8, 31, 75, 139–40, 228, 290, 291

  bubonic 8, 21, 31, 73, 292, 293

  Great Plague (1665) 136

  Plague of Justinian 21, 290

  pneumonic 8, 72, 73, 153, 155–6, 169, 188, 291–2

  Planck, Max 30

  Plata, La (ship) 49–50

  pneumonia 23, 45, 46, 78, 98, 104, 166, 176, 187–8. 193–4, 217, 239, 242, 265

  pneumonic plague 8, 72, 73, 153, 155–6, 169, 188, 291–2

  Poland 38, 42, 64

  music 265–6

  polio 107, 242; vaccine 183, 243

  Porter, Katherine Anne 264

  Pale Horse, Pale Rider 48, 264, 266

  Portugal/Portuguese 75, 78–9, 94–5

  post-viral depression 24, 218–20, 264, 265, 283

  post-viral fatigue 263, 265

  Pound, Ezra 44

  Prague 42, 267

  Praja Bandhu (newspaper) 259

  pregnant women 47, 76–7, 217, 218

  Premchand, Munshi 270

  The Price of Milk 270

  Price-Smith, Andrew: Contagion and Chaos 249

  Prideaux, Sue 219–20

  Primo de Rivera, General Miguel 252

  ‘prions’ 209

  Progresso Italo-Americano, Il (newspaper) 108, 109–10, 111

  psychiatric symptoms 218, 219, 220

  psychoanalysis 265, 266

  public health/information campaigns 29, 53, 75, 92, 96, 97, 99–103, 104, 105, 109, 117, 205, 281–2

  Puerto Rico 80

  Pune, India 99–100

  purgatives 123

  ‘purulent bronchitis’ 161–2, 221

  Puzo, Mario: The Fortunate Pilgrim 107–8

  Pyle, Gerald 167, 168, 169, 170

  Qavam al-Saltaneh, Ahmad 112, 114, 117–18, 120

  Qing dynasty (China) 69, 73, 125, 154, 156, 157

  quarantine 89, 90–91, 96, 98, 101, 281

  Alaska 143, 144

  Australia 44

  China 74, 155

  Iceland 93

  of Jewish refugees 245

  Mashed 116

  Odessa 127

  Persia 116, 242

  Philippines 94

  Switzerland 40

  Vancouver Island 159

  Venice 90

  quinine 122–3

  rabies vaccine 98, 128

  railways 30, 43, 77, 154, 170, 204, 231

  Rand, Walter Charles 100

  Rand gold mines, South Africa 77, 78, 204, 225

  Ranger, Terence: The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 3, 5, 8

  rats 100

  Ray, Rhoda 146–7

  Recife, Brazil 41, 50

  Red Cross 38, 44, 104

  American 145

  International Committee of the Red Cross 168–9, 245

  Swiss 139

  Reid, Ann 190, 191, 283

  reportable diseases see disease surveillance systems

  Reza, Imam: shrine 112

 

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