A severe influenza cold weakened her much; and a second attack she seemed never to recover.

This propensity exhibited itself ludicrously enough on one occasion, when a violent influenza prevailed in Dublin.

If we were threatened with any other direful visitation influenza, say, or the seventeen-year locust,I should naturally read up on the subject in order to know what to expect.

Thence I took a conveyance for Mr. W.H. Shearman's, at Vernon, where I arrived at ten o'clock A.M. Capt. Douglass, who had preceded me, wrote from West Point Military Academy, on the 27th, that in the sudden change of habits he had been affected with a dreadful influenza.

The "vile influenza" proved to be or became a pleurisy.