This explanation of the real significance of the symptoms of Influenza should make it sufficiently apparent that its cause is fundamental, widespread and deeply rooted in the organism--a menace not to be lightly and tentatively treated with impunity. That the disease is not one that may be met--with any prospect of success--with febrifuges, drugs, serums and specifics--to say nothing of whisky and the like futilities, to use no harsher term, such as are said to have characterized the prescriptions of a very considerable proportion of the Regular Medical Profession and with such terribly disastrous results. What the liquor statistics show on our side of the line I am at the moment unable to say, but I see it reported in the press of an adjoining province that under nominally strict "Prohibition" the sale of liquor had increased no less than 900 per cent, largely upon doctors orders, and that the sales from the Government stores in one city, during the past month had totaled $50,000--as compared with $6,000 for the corresponding period of the previous year. The Professor's elaborate diagnosis, from a physiologico-chemical point of view seems rather to point to a meaning which he has missed--to indicate a latent, more remote possibility behind the shy bacillus, as the primary cause of the disease. Let us endeavor to read the riddle rightly. On scientific contemplation it at once becomes apparent that the symptoms as defined by Kuhnemann--and indeed all other observers--are confined to the regions traversed by the _Vagus_ (wandering) or _Pneumogastric_ nerve--a nerve of comprehensive scope and bi-functional activity, _physical and psychic_ and in operation, remarkably in accord with the manifestations of Influenza. Concisely stated, the physiological function of the _Vagus nerve_ is to regulate the process of breathing, tasting, swallowing, appetite, digestion, etc.; and the result of its failure to function would create coughing, choking, indigestion--separately or in combination. Its mental functions include the expression of shame, desire, disgust, grief, torture, depression and despair. The following is its academic description: _Vagus_ or Pneumogastric nerve (tenth cranial); function--sensation and motion; originates in the floor of the fourth ventricle (the space which represents the primitive cavity of the hind-brain; it has the pons and oblongata in front, while the cerebellum lies dorsal), and is distributed through the ear, pharynx, larynx, lungs, esophagus, and stomach; possesses the following branches--auricular, pharyngeal, superior and inferior laryngeal, cardiac, pulmonary, esophageal, gastric, hepatic, communicating, meningeal. It is interesting to compare the scope and characteristics of the Vagus, as here defined with the details of Prof. Kuhnemann's diagnosis of Influenza and to draw conclusions.