Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-17
DIE GRIPPE HAS COME.
The European Sneexe Makes It's Appear
ance In New York.


The New York board of health was notified
yesterday morning that there were three cases
Of influenza in the city. Th%, are the FIRST
cases Of the threatened epidjmic from across
the water which hs,v peen reported in New
York. 1t is stated that eight cases have been
reported to the health board, and they are all
| In one family. The first victim, young lady,
was taken down ON Thursday last. It is sup
posed that she contracted the disease from a
family who returned from Europe about ten
| days ago. Her first symptom vas vertigo,
speedily followed by headache and chills. Then
she became deathly sick with pains in her
limbs and muscles. This was succeeded by
bronchial catsrrh, soreness of the throat and
coughing, followed by high fever and an ex-
cee dinghy rapid pulse, which at times reached
l2O to the minute. Since then seven other
members Of the family have been attacked by
the disease. In all the cases the symptoms are
said to be identical The health officers say
they are not surprised at its appearance here.
1t is not dangerous, but II it tends to become
epidemic all cases will be quarantined. The
treatment is the spraying of the affected men,
brane freely and frequently with q solution of
qulnine and the internal administration OF
quinine, belladonna and camphor.
THE VICTIMS IN EUROPE.
The new disease is epidemic In Paris. It has
attacked all classes and conditions. Nothing
since the Eiffel tower has so absorbed public
attention rs this mysterious malady that has
swooped down upon the gay capital from Russia
and today holds not less than one hundred thou
sand Parisians in its annoying but happily
harmless clutches. In Berlin quarter of a
million people are afflicted, and Prof. Won
Ley den thinks the situation not unattended by
danger, as advices from Charkow declare the
epidemic of typhus fever there followed close
f1vNnr, ia, 81. Al
Academic de Medicin, expressed himself as fol-
lows: This disease is known as influenza, or
more commonly in France as la grippe. Five
days ago had my first case, and since then
have treated at least twenty patients. Unques-
tionably the epidemic will continue to spread
How Tar 1t is impossible to say, hut there is
NO OCCASION FOR SERIOUS ALARM.
Gan ordinary case Of influenza is not to be
dreaded more than a severe cold Its symp-
toms are unmistakable. They are headache.
pains in the eyes, soreness all over the body.
as II one had been beaten loss OF appetite q
feverish condition and general sense Of Iassi-
tude and discomfort. These general symptoms
are apt to be followed by various local troubles,
such as bronchial attack cold in the head,
sore throat, diarrhea, sometimes by pleurisy
or pneumonia. The only real danger is pre-
sented In the last two cases, which can usually
be guarded against by proper care.
AN UNDISCOVERED MIcRoBE DOES IT.
As to the cause of the disease medical science
is practically at sea. We can, to be sure tell
the public that it is due to the ravages of an
undiscovered microbe, but why the epidemic
should sweep across Europe one year and then
remain unknown for o decade is beyond our
power to explain
"The theory has been advanced that influ-
enza is the forerunner of cholera, but l regard
that as pure nonsense. 1t is true that several
times In the present century an influenza cpl
demic has been closely followed by a visitation
OF cholera. 1t is also true that several times in
the same century there has been an epidemic
OF influenza with no cholera following It, Just
as there have been epidemics of cholera with
no influenza preceding. In fact, the two dis
eases are so utterly dissimilar as to make
any such sequence all but impossible, and any
such occasional instances of their simultaneous
appearance must be regarded as mere coinci-
dences with no deeper significance.
THE REMEDY
SIN the matter Of treatment the classic reme-
dies are sulphate of quinine or bromo -hyd rate
OF quinine, but recently physician of Bacca-
rat has strongly urged the use of tannin Per-
sonally would recommend prescription con-
tanning sulphate of quinne tannin and opium,
the latter being most valuable in relieving the
pans which are felt all over the body"