Paul Lewis
Books
- The Parade Philadelphia, the Liberty Loan Parade, and the Deadliest Week in American History · Liszt Think
On September 28, 1918, two hundred thousand Philadelphians gathered for a Liberty Loan parade as influenza silently spread through the Navy Yard.
- The Shadow in the Ranks…language of official communication. The Navy’s telegrams did not require immediate action. They requested cognizance, not intervention. Dr. Paul Lewis received his first samples from the Navy Yard on September 15. Lewis occupied a position at the intersection of Philadelphia’s scientific a…
- The Protocol of Normalcy (Mid‑September 1918)The finding was definitive in scientific terms. On that morning, it was also irrelevant to public policy. Wilmer Krusen read Paul Lewis’s laboratory report without lifting his pen from the day’s correspondence. The filterable nature of the causative agent—Lewis’s careful phr…
- The Rules on Wilmer Krusen’s Desk…de into subscription pledges. Krusen had also received, by registered mail on September 26, the definitive laboratory confirmation from Dr. Paul Lewis at the University of Pennsylvania’s Phipps Institute. Lewis had examined samples from Navy Yard patients. His findings were unequivocal: th…