Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1890-02-20
The Grippe.

FACTS GOING TO SHOW THAT 1T is NOT
CONTAGIOUS AND THAT PEOPLE NEED
HAVE no FEAR OF MINGLING WITH orH-
ERs WHERE IT PREVAILS.
New York Times
There has been discussion in a French h
medical society as TO whether the recently
prevailing. but now happily waning dis
order should he called the grippe or the
dengue. But the French word grippe"
and the Italian ''iniuenza" are now too
strongly intrenched il. the popular favor
or di>favor 10 be in danger from any
rival. The disease is now perfectly well
known to be but a repetition of very an-
cent epidemic. The joke of one Of the
medical papers is that the first man who
had the grippe" was A.rppa, 1t has
been variously known under different >cien-
tifc designations which it is unnecessary
to enumerate here
The New York Medical Journal publish
es an account by DIR. Henry Macdonald of
cpidemcs of influenza from 1910 10 1880.
Statements about disease in former ayes
are usually looked on with suspicion. and
where these statements attempt to convey
statistical Information the suspicion is
ju-titiable But people who suffered from
the epidemic of 1910 were nearly As able to
describe their symptoms as the sufferers
Of the present day. There is great simi-
larity in the descriptions Of the epidemics
Of 1910, 1857. 1850 1910, and Of the many
that followed during the | st and the pres
ent century The medical accounts of the
valuable, since these outbreaks were bet
ter observed and reported than the earlier
ones. The account given by Fnrrv Of the
prevailing catarrhal fever Of ls43 is par
ticularlv interesting and shows the slrni-
larity Of that epidemic to that from whic b
We have just suffered 1t i here" saws
Furrv. lin the city of New York, as ci,irs
always abound in the exciting causes of
epidemcs that The disease seems to have
its stronghold. The population appears,
indeed to have experienced ali almost uni
yer>al attack. neither age. sex. nor any
condition in life being exempt from i;s in
,a>iuu 70 the airy hahifatiun> Of com.
fort and atiluence and to the novels of
wrrtChtine~s its yi-tatiunS are equally
made
The fact that the disease in l-43 visited
ships in midoC"an showed that il was cvi-
dvmlC IN character. The fact that il pre-.
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rquable temperature. CatarrhS are little
known, showed that II could not have been
due 10 ordinary atmospheric vici>>itudc-.
but was peculiar affection. propagatrd
under certain laws. This conclusion was
further >uh-tautiatrd by the TWO fact, that
the malady attacked iuoisidui i without
any prrdi~po>itiou To catarrhal affections.
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