Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-29

careful as to diet, to husband their strength,
to clothe warmly and avoid every occasion
for taking cold, to avoid strong emotional
excitement, TO preserve even temperatures
In their houses and Offices, and to keep
their systems in regular habit and their
stomachs in good order. Indeed, the best
preventive against epidemic disease is reg
ularity of habit, avoidance of high diet,
and the care to which we have already
referred. This visitation of influenza is
not the first the country has experienced.
In 1882, says DIR. Warren in his work, it
extended to nearly the whole civilized
world. 1t has been several times even
more malignant than the present manifes-
tations indicate. 1t is also true that the
disease has always been more severe in
Europe than in America.
In St. Petersburg the Consul-General
of the United States reports the symp-
toms were of a typhoid character, with
fever, pains in the head, back and limbs,
and affection of the lungs later. In Paris
the report is that these symptoms are pres
ent and also more or less catarrhal affec-
ton, and in many cases the premonitions
that indicate pneumonia In Russia the
illness has not been excessively severe and
under care recovery has been rapid. 1t
there, however, and in Paris, left the pa
tient respondent in mind and with sense
of impending i'll.
In Paris those feeling the symptoms
were advised by the chemists and apothe-
caries-who are forbidden to write pre-
scriptions-to use quinine with a small
quantity of aconite. Chlorodyne was also
advised, but it was there, as it ought to be
everywhere, also added that not even
these remedies should be used, except I'M
der direction of physician. Another dis
patch speaks of quinine, antipyrine and
elderodyne being freely used. The Paris
ian chemists agree that the physicians all
give quinine freely in treatment of the
disease, and quinine and antipyrine at the
same time are favorites also, that aconite
syrup and wine of cocoa, syrup of codeine
and the salicylate of sodium are used,
while those having the disease mildly are
treated with hypophosphite of quinine in
small doses 1t is added that the treat
ment is that of purgation and that the
doctors appear to be anxious to clear the
digestive organs and give the patient a
''free stomach" One Of the Partisan
chemists is reported as saying that a much
given medicine in the catarrhal period OF
the affection is solution of benzoate OF
soda.
The homoepathists treat the disease in
Paris with aconite or baptisia tincture in
the outset. If cerebral symptoms appear,
belladonna is given, and when erratic
pains become stationary pulsatilla is pre-
scribed In convalesence rhus toxicoden.
don Is a favorite. Whether Directeur NJ.
Leon Kim is an enthusiast or not, he is
evidently courageous for his school, since
he tells the reporters who visit the
Pharmacie Centrale d Homeopathic that
the treatment described "inyariable leads
to recovery" 1t is in the interview with
this chemist that "a chip as an early
stage of the disease is first spoken of.
When that appears the homoepathist at
once administers aconite.
1t is noted in Paris that children most
easily escape the disease, that women suf-
fer most with it, and that the virulence of
the attack increases with the age of the
patient. All that we have had regarding
treatment thus far, of this disease, is what
the dispatches from Paris have given US,
and these must, of course, be taken with
allowance, since the physician is seldom
communicative to reporters concerning his
prescriptions, and apothecaries can only
speak of the remedies generally and with
out knowledge of the circumstance under
which applied in each case.
The only safe course for the people who
do not wish to have incompetents for
doctors, is to consult physicians in whom
they have confidence, to exercise care, as
we have said, of their bodies and habit, to
preserve their mental equilibrium, and to
be determined to get the under grip of La
Grippe, for the will power of the patient is
the best friend of the healer.