The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-26
La GRIPPE SPREADS.
The Ideas of Some of the Leading
Physicians.
THEY ALL ADVISE GREAT CARR
The Disease is More Dangerous Than is
Popularity Supposed-There is no
Preventive-LoOk Out.

TOpuldrly CuppOSeU-1nere IS no
Preventive-Look Out.
I'm la grippe's grip is very familia
sound at the present time.
Don't you think, doctor, that grea
many people are home i'll who would neve
have been there had they not read so mucl
about the disease and the havoc it is play
ing in the easta''
This was the query put to prominen
Salt Lake physician yesterday, and the fol
lowing was the answer given:
Il have no doubt but that the many
fatal results of thesdIseasein the east have
had tendency to brighten people here, anC
make them more cautious than they would
nave been under other circumstances-tha
IS, II no such epidemic were in existence
And after all, - pausing in the act of writ
ing out prescription for patient who
had symptoms of the disease, sit is better
that 1T should be so. The newspapers il
treating the epidemic as if it were matter
OF no consequence, and in some cases, in 6
humorous vein, have conveyed wrong
impression to the public. There is danger
IN any disease, no matter what. The only
difference is i'll the degree, and
THE GREATEST DANGER
in la grippe is that it is not taken in time
that busy men and women fight it off as
long as nature will allow them to do So
only giving up when they discover they
are unable to longer battle with it.,'
is there any way in which the disease
can be avoided! Is there no preventive2 ''
"Well. to tell you the truth, do not
know. You see, the epidemic-the violent
type, at least, has not reached US yet. and
but few OF the doctors of this city have had
any experience with it. Speaking from my
present knowledge, however, should saw
that everybody is liable to have it, iN "a"
What are the symptoms
just at that moment Doc Faust hove in
SIGHT. He was wrapped in a Canadian
blanket oyercoat and sombre expression
of countenance
ASK the doctor, there, he can tell YOU ,,
and the medicine man turned away to com
plete his prescription
Faust pulled his 23x69 silk handkerchief
away from his nose, and in answer to the
reporters query, Have you had it?n he
replied: Had it for week.
well, what are the symptoms?n
Ones head feels as though he had been
TO ogden on Liberal ratification; ones
breast as though Sullivan had ransagainst
him with his good right hand; ones bones.
as though he had paid visit to Donnv,
brook falr; ones stomach as though he had
swallowed both Jonah and the whale: and
a general idea fits through ones mind to
the effect that he is merely walking around.
or lying around, to sa, e funeral expenses. y
Another physician when asked about the
epidemic, said: 1T is commencing to as
sumo
A VERY SERIOUS ASPECT
L nave number of patients under my care.
and all have the mild form only. AS to the
symptoms, they vary somewhat, although
the disease usually commences with a chill
followed by fever, running at the ewes and
nose and frontal headache. There is great
soreness all over the body, and some sub-
lects explain the pain by saying thew feel
as though they had been badly pounded
The great danger, es oecially in this alti-
tude, think, arises from the likelihood of
the original malady running into pneu-
monla. When death ensues-but there have
been no fatal cases in Salt Lake as vet
IL is because the air passages become
closged with mucous. In other words, the
patient Smothers, in a similar manner as
though he were under water. From nv
observation, weak persons, and those of a
delicate constitution. inclined to lung di
SeaSeS. are more apt to take it than others
know OF no preventive but usually rec
to those who fear the disease
small doses of quinine-a three grain nil
three times day."
AN EASTERN PHYSICIANS OPINION.
An eastern physician, who has had CON
siderable experience in fighting the dis
ease, in recent interview said: suThe
chief thing to do is for the patient to be
tucked away comfortably in bed and rt.-
main very quiet. Get doctor as soon az
the symptoms of the disease are manifest
Early treatment goes a great way. AS a
rule, find that women and children re
cover much sooner than men, This is easily
accounted for by the fact that the children
and women can be controlled aud kept quiet
n bed. Not so with the men. They 90
about their business as long as th.., ii
stand on their feet, and moving around ag-
gravates the disease The disease does not
take on the character of intermittent fever:
but the fever is pretty steady, though gen
orally of short duration. 1t continues some
times twenty-four hours only, and other
cases the fever will hold up four or five
days. This is owing to the physical condi-
ton OF the patient when attacked.
LA grippe seems to be easily complicated
with other diseases. Pneumonia. more
frequently develops after serious case
than any other complication. And when
pneumonia follows, the patient NAV die
within twentyfour hours after it's symp
IONS follow the grip. People, believing
that the grip is not dangerous. 90 about the
streets and expose themsr dives while the
'ymp oms are first shown They NAV take
l G" ere cold by exposure, and bad cold
tight now can easily develop into inf1uenza.
'Ile cause is supposed to be germ, and
yet, II that is so. how is it carried against
'e WIND as easily, apparently. as with the
Nlnd. Yet, the character of the disease
invites the advancement of the germ
-heory. Another peculiar fact is that the
grip mas made some unaccountable Jumps
m two and half years it has travelled from
italy to Germany, thence to Russia. to
England, to France, to Italy and the United
states. During the greater portion of the
time during which it has been travelling
westward from the Atlantic coast, the pre-
vailing winds have been from the west.
and usual y they have blown very
strongly, too. This disease, or one
very similar, followed sailing vessel
from an English port, some time in 1910,
nsease has almost one hundred different
names. La grippe comes from the Polish
word 'chrypka,' meaning to sieze. The
french adopted the term, and call it la
grippe while the Swiss say sagrippi,'
which means the same thing. Tao 1rot)
s German, and 'horion' "a blow is French.
So is la dando' (the dandy. In some
parts of Germany they call it 'schafft-
lusten' (sheep cough; in others they say
biz catarrh' Sudden catarrh), also
schafft -krankheit' (sheep sickness); but
he real name for it in this country is cpl
lemic catarrhal fever.
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