The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-26
EuRoPE'S EPIDEMIC.


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"Io e1'
r.aus.s. crosse, the Atlantic ana Gains
! Lodsmsnt In New York-rhe Disease
Not Dangerous hut Decidedly Disagres-
sbls-TAs Symptoms.
NV YoRk. Dec. IA. The influenza
has anchored in New York. The COM
nlaint haa not a vet rot It work in the
Wholesale way in which it has man
ifested itself IN the old world. Besides
the eioht cases IN the Klamroth family.
mentioned in these dis
matches. another case has come to light.
Sunday last B. Wheeler. ! well-known
and wealthy stock broker Of this city
Who lives with his wife at the
Windsor Hotel. was attacked by
sudden dizziness. accompanied by
nausea. M. Wheeler's eyesight WA
also affected, and for I time his suffer-
ings were % intense that, as he after
ward expressed ii, he thought he was
going craxy. In great alarm his wife
sent for her physician, who believes Mr..
Wheeler has led all the other guests at
the Windsor in developing well-de-
fined case of influenza. The Klamroth
family are still sneezing, but are getting
along - comfortably as can be expect
"a. Dr.. Ramon Guiteras, OF the Board
Of Health, made an oficial report on
their case to DR.. Edison Tuesday. His
report showed that the ages Of the
persons attacked ranged from 80
70 =. There was no apparent
cause for the disease, exAept that
certain members Of = the fam
lily had recently received letters
from Europe. The drst case was that
Of Miss Gertrude Klamroth, who stated
that she had received letter from Eu-
rope the day before the attack. Tho
seizures were day apart except the
last four, which developed at the rate
Of two : day December "A and 15 re-
spectively.
Dr.. Guiteras declares that his exam
ination showed the patients TO be about
o i'll Is . person with bad cold. Tho
duration OF the disease seemed to be two
DAYS and upward. The patients
stated that the suffering from the catar-
rhal symptoms WAS nothing In COM
parison with the great feeling Of
prostrstion. DR.. Edison, chief inspector
Of CONTAGIOUS diseases, has NO doubt
that the disease is infectious He does
not believe, however, that It ID dan
eerous.
The influenza in the form n which
IL Il nov makino the circuit 81 tho
rloha 4 rothinr' u a. !. svmrtoma
ana efPect %. Int : had cold II heOins
with watering 81 the eves. running q
the noaa and oeneral irritation ~ tha
muoous memhrana a. the throat
and noatriIs. It IL attended with
the aching bones. hurninr ewes.
dull head and general we.rineaa and
diseust with life that attend : had cold. !.
Il Il iike b.v fever. erc.nt that its
oourse 4 abort and Il does not .nnear =
have the tendencv toward .sthma that
eiyes .dded terror 10 the fever. "a IN
direct efYects unon the natient
Aarard nror the circumst.rce.
4 the .tt.ck and tha tamrera.
ment az the victim. II h.s II manv
cases abroad been followed by the
breaking out Of . rash and other indica-
tions of serious affection, but the doctors
say that the rash is really only IN indi-
cation Of feverish tendency in the pa
tient, heightened by the influenza. It
has also been stated that pneumonia
and pleurisy were natural results
Of the influenza. but here aeain the doc
tors insist that these diseases, where
they have followed the influenza, have
been due to other causes with which the
influenza has slight II any connection.
All doctors OF emincnce here
and abroad seem to agree that
there 10 nothing dangerous about the
Epidemic, and that even its unpleas-