L'influenza nelle ondate epidemiche del XIX secolo [The Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Waves of Influenza]

The retrospective analysis undertaken by our working group as part of infectious diseases, with particular emphasis on epidemics of the nineteenth century, regards the influence, which according to the scholar WI Beveridge, was defined as "one of the greatest enemies of man". The work is divided into three parts: the influence and its names in the story, which describes the behavior of 1500 to reach the 1800 century that characterized recurrent epidemic waves in the world's population. This part is followed by the cares and remedial actions in the nineteenth century, the third, deals with death attributed to influenza and its complications observed in the town of Ferrara in the years when outbreaks occurred, affecting the majority of the populations: 1830- 1833, 1836-1837, 1847-1848, 1857-1858, 1873-1875, 1889-1892, the latter known as the great pandemic.