Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on Nostr: Flu? "At Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights, Dr Albert Lamb ...
Flu?
"At Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights, Dr Albert Lamb recognized the fact that he was dealing with an unprecedented new disease, describing his incoming patients in graphic terms: ‘They’re blue as huckleberries and spitting blood.’37 The by-now familiar stigmata of Spanish flu were adding a note of horror to the familiar symptoms of influenza: torrential nosebleeds, explosive haemorrhaging, air-hunger and cyanosis. Every hospital ward was a vision of hell."
"At Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights, Dr Albert Lamb recognized the fact that he was dealing with an unprecedented new disease, describing his incoming patients in graphic terms: ‘They’re blue as huckleberries and spitting blood.’37 The by-now familiar stigmata of Spanish flu were adding a note of horror to the familiar symptoms of influenza: torrential nosebleeds, explosive haemorrhaging, air-hunger and cyanosis. Every hospital ward was a vision of hell."