{"id":73,"date":"2021-02-19T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2021-02-23T18:38:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T18:38:21","slug":"influenza-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/influenza-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowdoin and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-74 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/02\/Cram-excerpt-1024x416.jpg\" alt=\"Excerpt from Cram 1918 Diary\" width=\"1024\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/02\/Cram-excerpt-1024x416.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/02\/Cram-excerpt-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/02\/Cram-excerpt-768x312.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/02\/Cram-excerpt.jpg 1419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marshall Perley Cram (1882-1933) was born in Brunswick and graduated from Bowdoin in 1904 with a B.A. and also earned an M.A. in 1905. He received his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins (1908) while simultaneously teaching Chemistry at Bowdoin (1904-1911) and then served as the Josiah Little Professor of Natural Science until his death (1911-1933). Cram also served on faculty at the Medical School of Maine during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus and lasting from February 1918 to April 1920, this flu infected 500 million people \u2013 about a third of the world&#8217;s population at the time \u2013 in four successive waves.<\/p>\n<p>Cram\u2019s 1918-1919 daily diary offers the most complete record of the toll the 1918 influenza pandemic took on the College. As a backdrop to his entries about the influenza are accounts of local and national events, from a campus fuel shortage to the entry of the U.S. into World War I.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/mss\/M194\/M194C773D51918.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Explore Cram&#8217;s 1918-1919 Diary online!<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/\">Return to exhibit home page<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/hubbard\/\">Explore Dr. John Hubbard&#8217;s Medical Library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall Perley Cram (1882-1933) was born in Brunswick and graduated from Bowdoin in 1904 with a B.A. and also earned an M.A. in 1905. He received his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins (1908) while simultaneously teaching Chemistry at Bowdoin (1904-1911) and then served as the Josiah Little Professor of Natural Science until his death (1911-1933). Cram [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-73","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}