influenza

(in-flé-en’zii), n. [= F. influenza, It. influenza, influenza, lit. influence: see injiuence.} 1. An epidemic ecatarrh of an aggravated kind, attended with serious febrile symptoms and rapid prostration. It attacks all ages and conditions of life, but is not frequently fatal except to the aged, or the very young, or to those suffering from other diseases. So called because supposed to be due to some peculiar atmospheric influence. In all cases of injlwenza all depre ing treatment should be avoided. Quain, Med. Dict. The year [1837] began with the influenza. Everybody had it. The offices of the various departments of the Civil Service were deserted because all the clerks had injluenza. Busine of all kinds was stopped because merchants, clerks, bankers, and brokers all had injlwenza; at Woolwich fifty men of the Royal Artillery and Engineers were taken into hospital daily, with influenza. The epidemic seems to have broken out suddenly, and suddenly to have departed. W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 19. 2+. A prevailing influence; an epidemic. The learned Michael is has taken notice of this fatal attachment, and speaks of it as a strange illusion; he says that it is the reigning in/luenza, to which all are liable who make the Hebrew their principal study. J. Bryant, New System (1774), I. 199. influingt, ». [ influx 3088 5. The place or point at which one stream flows Thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee. Deut, xvii. 10. into another or into the sea: as, at the influx of Prince e, my Muse thought not amys the brook.— Physical influx or influence, in metaph., To enforme your noble mynde of this. the proce of producing effects of sensation upon the mind Putten ham, Par then i a des, xiii. by a causal action through the brain. The doctrine is that matter can act immediately upon mind, and be acted upon | That you are poor and miserable men by it, by direct causation. My eyes inform me. influxion (in-fluk’shon), ». [= F. injfluaion,