Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 in Philadelphia

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What happens when disease strikes a city of two million people, sickening half a million and killing more than 12,000 in just six weeks and 16,000 in two months? During fall 1918, in the last months of World War I, Philadelphia hosted the largest parade in its history. Within days, influenza casualties overwhelmed hospitals. In this illustrated presentation, Robert D. Hicks, Director of the Mütter Museum, discusses the pandemic as a social catastrophe and considers its memorialization today. He shares highlights of the museum’s most ambitious exhibition to date, Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 in Philadelphia, that opens during this for five years. Several relevant artifacts from the Mütter Museum will be on display at the lecture.
Robert D. Hicks, Ph.D., Senior Consulting Scholar, Director, Mütter Museum/Historical Medical Library, William Maul Measey Chair for the History of Medicine of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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@kpacuBua 4 жыл бұрын

Watching this while under quarantine. :/

@dd4138 4 жыл бұрын

Nothing else to do

@hillaroduor112 4 жыл бұрын

Yea kenya

@darthdennis6681 4 жыл бұрын

Watching under strict lockdown...Frankfurt, Germany

@D_M_S_4 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I watched the older uploaded documentaries but now I’m watching the newer uploads which I’m interested in.

@bryanneideffer3969 4 жыл бұрын

On another video people died within 6...6 hours of getting this Flu could you imagine!😨 glad Covid-19 isn't that deadly This virus was monstrous

@heather-mariewashburn4414 2 жыл бұрын

So maybe I’m strange, but at the onset of COVID 19, I become obsessed with learning anything I could about plagues, pandemics, epidemics etc.…it gave me a great deal Of comfort. I suppose It was an effort to demystify what we were all going through. I watched all I could on all kinds of catastrophes. Of course, the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 became something I studied - looking to history and our responses to see the parallels, and hopefully the wisdom we had gained since then. Whelp. Anyway, I became so soothed by this lecture in particular that I still often watch it as I am falling asleep at night. I could probably speak along with it. Now two years after I have stumbled upon this lecture, it is my favorite of everything I studied, read and watched.

@johnsmith5139 4 жыл бұрын

starts at 4:15

@billievillarreal9547 3 жыл бұрын

Doing the Lord's work

@heather-mariewashburn4414 2 жыл бұрын

On another note, I love the humor of Steve Tinney’s introduction, no fooling.

@Moredread25 4 жыл бұрын

Ironic that he praises the huge crowd right off the bat considering the prospects of a crowd in Philadelphia during a pandemic.

@chillg3326 4 жыл бұрын

This was in 2019 and uploaded a month ago. Really? You really think this was done now? Smh. 🤦‍♂️

@edoe19 4 жыл бұрын

Chillκιηg 33 0:13 Title card says March 4, 2020. The novel coronavirus is referenced a few times in the lecture.

@tara1darby 4 жыл бұрын

@@chillg3326 this was actually from March 2020. He literally mentioned the corona virus, Trump and showed a sign that a business posted about not letting Chinese customers in due to Corona. Maybe you missed that part!?

@carcanoM9138 4 жыл бұрын

Moredread25 Did you have to say bat 🦇? Lol

@jpd44 4 жыл бұрын

@@chillg3326 No it wasn't. It was March this year. Watch the video. He speaks about COVID-19 throughout and even jokes about them all trapped in a room together. Apologizes that the lecture was scheduled before the pandemic starting showing up locally.

@sadfaery 4 жыл бұрын

This was really interesting and informative. My great-great grandfather died during the flu epidemic in Nanticoke, PA, when my great-grandmother was 12 years old, and it had a huge impact on their family. I always appreciate learning more about how that epidemic affected society during that time frame.

@dd4138 4 жыл бұрын

B.C. Ummmm, so your grandma was 12 years old and pregnant or already had children?

@sadfaery 4 жыл бұрын

@@dd4138 1) my great grandmother, 2) it had an impact on her mother, her, and her siblings. It was my great-grandmother's father who died when she was 12. Remember, 1918 was not exactly a time when mothers were the breadwinners of their families, and as Catholics, it was not exactly a small family.

@MoreheadFire 4 жыл бұрын

The world has changed already since this was held. 😥

@darthdennis6681 4 жыл бұрын

And 2 days later, we've changed even more. Dont be surprised if we dont witness something MAJOR come tonight say, midnight into tomorrow....MAY-HAY- HAY-JOR!!!!

@Morgonmotionaren 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to 2021... it has canged and will cange again...

@dougfitch3649 4 жыл бұрын

I watched this last night! A really, really great presentation! Learned a lot!

@louiseclav734 4 жыл бұрын

Loved this lecture, could have listened for hours more. So interesting thank you.

@Morgonmotionaren 3 жыл бұрын

Almost a year ago... How accurate, how haunting. What will the future be like? /Written in february of 2021.

@townsendwentz59 2 жыл бұрын

My Grandfather was his 1908 college class Salutatorian, Millersville Normal School ,PA, the largest class to that date. A respected teacher & Principal in Delaware, he was drafted to the huge Hog Island shipyard as a machinist. He was killed mid-Oct by this flu, leaving 4 orphans since his wife had died of hemmhorage 2 wks after my father's birth in Sussex County, Delaware. They might be proud that today a Great grandson was a notable Doctor in Iowa, a Great-great Granddaughter was a doctor recognized for pre-med research at CHOP, & a Grandson-in- Law was an officer responsible for the launch & distribution of one of the most successful vaccines today.

@betenoire77 4 жыл бұрын

That was really interesting, thank you.

@laurenlazarus977 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone else start crying when he talked about the dad sitting with his dead 3 year old daughters dolls because I did 😢

@michellemccann6179 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. How heartbreaking. It breaks people's spirits when a loved one dies.

@annskaggs4475 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@tarmbruster1 4 жыл бұрын

Philadelphia was one of the worst hit in 1918. What the hell are they thinking? Am I just stupid? Maybe attending Xavier taught me something Penn wouldn’t have?

@phak7226 3 жыл бұрын

6 months after this video was first posted and only 58K views but if some "celebrity" or certain politicians make an outrageous statement or video then 1 million plus views in 24 hours. The state of humanity as a whole regardless of nationality or cultural background is lamentable this lack of attention to listening and researching the things that matter to us all will be one of the main reasons why the "hammer" shall eventually come down on us all, perhaps to finally eliminate the Future of our species

@richardkennedy8481 Жыл бұрын

"I assume you all got the shot" I and many millions did not.

@greghanson407 4 жыл бұрын

I believe why there aren't any monuments commemorating the 1918 Flu is that it was looked at just one of those things. In years prior to 1918 and the years after 1918 waves of diseases claimed lives in almost every family. In my family I have about a dozen people who died of Tuberculosis between 1894 and 1930, there was waves of yellow fever, typhoid fever, cholera, you name it, the US and every place else did their best to survive and mourn their dead, but it was all accepted as part of life. Now, everyone recoils at the thought of death, but at the same time we have tens of thousands of people every year killed by the flu, and hundreds of thousands claimed by cancer. The big difference with the coronavirus is that the media has really ramped up their "reporting" on this in what seems like a deliberate attempt to create a panic situation.

@lkeo48845 4 жыл бұрын

Greg Hanson Right. So, us po’ folks should just take it as it comes, keep our heads down & go to work. Who cares if we get sick & die? After all, we all can be easily replaced on our jobs & our families will get used to the grief soon enough.

@whoever6458 4 жыл бұрын

Nobody expects the Spanish flu.

@francesruggeri2336 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a phosgene gas attack rather than a flu.

@maxpower1337 4 жыл бұрын

Thank God at least we know how virus spreads now compared to then but how far have we actually learned in other ways.

@LiberalinOregon 4 жыл бұрын

My question, why did some ppl recover and not have their lungs liquify?

@matthewsmith9064 4 жыл бұрын

Various genetic factors. Presents of certain inherited antibodies Cytokine storms. Poor medical practice/ww1 And finally at the time a lack of knowledge on the matter of Viruses

@matthewsmith9064 4 жыл бұрын

Answers for why and why not

@adrianhughesv8987 4 жыл бұрын

Antibiotics also did not yet exist to deal with secondary infections.

@dyskelia 4 жыл бұрын

Uncanny

@jimmytouchdown7146 4 жыл бұрын

Health Care for all anyone?

@yoyoma131313 4 жыл бұрын

48:30 & this is why no one has masks. You didn't take it seriously.

@yoyoma131313 4 жыл бұрын

Then he goes on to compare discrimination of Chinese to discrimination of Germans. Ffs gtfoh

@meclazine 4 жыл бұрын

This individual takes the utmost pleasure reporting gratuitous details about people's lives and trivialising people's tragic deaths. Very poor quality lecture in terms of relating the story correctly.