id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_lhh6qtcak5ezrjonn7id6hatfq E. Thomas Ewing Look Out for 'La Grippe': Using Digital Humanities Tools to Interpret Information Dissemination during the Russian Flu, 1889–90 2015 3 .pdf application/pdf 1867 146 43 Look Out for 'La Grippe': Using Digital Humanities Tools to Interpret Information the American journal Medical News published a lengthy article by Dr Roberts Bartholow 1 Roberts Bartholow, 'The Causes and Treatment of Influenza', Medical News, 55, 26 (1889), 710–4. Although close reading of an illustrative text, such as Bartholow's editorial, allows historians to understand how a medical expert explained a disease outbreak, new tools revealing analysis.2 This article explores a digital humanities approach to medical history In terms of a digital humanities approach to medical history, the real significance of appeared on 28 December 1889, the publication date of the Medical News article. interpretation of Bartholow's article appeared in a Missouri newspaper, the Sedalia Weekly a single text for close analysis offers medical historians a tool to explore tensions between requires the skills of close reading, yet it was the digital humanities tools of word searching ./cache/work_lhh6qtcak5ezrjonn7id6hatfq.pdf ./txt/work_lhh6qtcak5ezrjonn7id6hatfq.txt