![]() ![]() By some estimates, two million people perished during the ten-year pandemic. Sunspot activities became more violent until they peaked in1738 when physicians reported flu in both man and animals, including dogs, horses and birds, especially sparrows. Sunspot activity then increased, reaching a high in 1727, and in 1728, influenza appeared in waves on every continent. ![]() The years 1645-1715 was a period that astronomers call the Maunder minimum, when the sun was very quiet astronomers observed no sunspots during the time span and the northern lights were nonexistent then in 1715, sunspots reappeared, as did the northern lights. ![]() Now that we know about the electrical nature of the sun, we can make some interesting observations. He repeated the then-common belief that the accumulation of electricity in the body causes the symptoms of influenza and that outbreaks were due to atmospheric “influences”-hence the name influenza. ![]() In 1836, Heinrich Schweich, author of a book on influenza, noted that all physiological processes produce electricity and offered the theory that an electrical disturbance of the atmosphere may prevent the body from discharging it. As early as 1799, researchers puzzled over the cause of influenza, which appeared suddenly, often in diverse places at the same time, and could not be explained by any theory of contagion. ![]()
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