'Take one in time' Between January 1918 to December 1920 the influenza pandemic killed millions of mainly young healthy adults. The night is cold and foggy they have just left the hot vitiated atmosphere of crowded threatre, and are taking Evans' Pastilles as the most effective way of preventing a chill. The germ of influenza, catarrh Pheaumonia and all diseases of the throat and lungs enter the system by the mouth and throat.