, 1890-01-05
DOCTORS TALK OF IT.
Local Physi clans Dissertate on
the Prevailing Ailment.
Some Say il is Influenza and Others
Scout This Idea.
Interesting Group of Interviews on
The Topic of the Hour.
AN INVESTIGATION PLANNED.

There having lately arisen a question
as to the nature of the ailment now so
prominent in this city a LEADER young
man yesterday determined to retire all
doubt by collecting a symposium of ex-
pert opinions on the engrosslng topic. A
disease of no serious character has been
general here for two weeks and in sup
port of the statement that the community
is now in the firm grasp of the visitation
may be cited the fact that every Chey-
enne Doctor is on the go night and day
and that hundreds of citizens are i'll, con.
valescing or fighting off a threatenened at
tack of the plague. But let the experts
testify.
A Ill TYPE.
DIR. j. j.. Marston, a suave, genteel
young practitioner of rare imperturbability
and ideal military bearing, was the first
person sought out by the interviewer.
I'VE have here" said he, looking up
from a prescription blank on which he
was writing, "a mild type of influenza
that seems to be no respector of persons or
conditions. Its presence is due, | think,
to the extraordinary weather. 1t is
amenable to treatment and is nothing seri-
Gus, though extremely unpleasant while
it remains, which is from three to five
DAYS The influenza alone could not
cause death"
NO LA GRIPPE.
Gruff DIR. Grimes, that blg-hearted
veteran who is called everybody's friend.
was next hunted down. There is no la
grippe here" he remarked. THE malaria
is entirely absent. There is a remarkable
prevalence of severe colds. with vari-
Gus Accomplishments, but the sneezlng
and eye affectation of the pure Russian in
1uenza' are not present. The large
amount of sickness here now is caused by
the tenacious continuance of summer
skies and temperature. The annual gem
eral attack usually comes in February and
is milder than this. but is practically the
same thing as l have encountered year
after year in practice here"
RUSSIAN INA.
The reporter was now thoroughly eu
rapport with his assignment and hasten
ing to the Office of DR.. Stevens, the I'm
Ion Pacific surgeon, found the athlete
and clubman, who bad just finished a pro-
fessional cali. He thus discoursed on the
question of the hour: The local cpl
demic is the famed Russian influenza or
la grippe, which is travelling around the
world Just nov. 1t seemed to start in the
cars domain, journey across the CONT
nent, jump from France to England ana
then leap to Boston, marching rapidly to
New York and rushing westward.
Its marvellous spread in a short time is
an interesting feature. 1t is an cpl
demic of severe cold in the lead with
acute catarrhal inflammation of the nose
and secondarily of the throat and chest,
all ushered in with chill, sneezing and
fever. There is a depression of the vital
forces which is most marked and damag-
ing in the extremes of life. Adults suf-
fer but little and unless colncident with
severe Affections the influenza is not at
all dangerous. 1t seems to be about the
same thing everywhere. The newspapers
are mistaken in ascribing increased
mortality to la grippe. 1t can be
fatal only when followed by pneumonia,
or when the victim is aged and decrepit.
A few weak infants may succunb. There
is a malarial element in the ailment and 1t
is favorably influenced by quinine.
"A new type of fever seems quite
prevalent here. The attack is of short
duration and while severe not harmful.
Pulse when fever is at its height is from
40 to leo and temperature about lO4
and pains rack the muscles. The patient
first feels ~listless, thinks he would rather
lie down than work. No name has been
given this fever, which seems to occur
mostly in the mountains, being quite com.
mon in Colorado. It causes are eli
matte.
ONLY REsPITORY TROUBLE.
DR.. Barkw who is accre dited with
being the most studlous of the local gull
OF healers and who is voluble in tech
nique, but withal a very pleasant gentle
man, says: Il haze seen no in fuenza
here. A stubborn respitory trouble is