The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-01-21
GRIP AND ITS MICROBE.
Something About the Dreadful DIseas

The prevailing epidemic, grip, which
;: is causing much misgiviug and alarm il
10 the North, has made its appearance il
= the South, though what is here is o.
e such mild type as not to cause any grea
9 alarm.
l. The fact remains, however, that when
lt the disease appeared in New York and
q Philadelphia, it was of the same mild
form, and no great attention was paid to
It it. Now in New York it has been de.
i clared epidemic and the Philadelphia
: physicians are alarmed at the large
It number of cases which are develop
ing.
8 A physician, speaking of the grip last
4 week, said:
: "About the only difference between
grip and influenza is that the former is
an epidemic disease and is independent
of climate conditions 1t is as likely to
attack in pleasant weather as in incle-
n1ent weather. I don't think the dis
ease will be very severe here this sea.
son. The history Of the grip shows that
it has always been severe the first sea-
son, less severe the second, and still
less the third season. As this is the
third season, the.disease..is not likely to
be severe.
"It is climate disease" he said, "and
cold spell may precipitate num-
Der of cases."
The grip is net as severe here as it is
in the North. On account of the climate
it is never very severe here, and fatal
cases are few. The difference between
the grip and influenza is the after af-
fects, extreme nervousness and q de.
bilitated condition following the grip.
Death seldom results from the grip it.
self, but from the after effects of the
disease.
DR.. Robert l.. Watkins, leading
physician ofNew York, has at last sue
ceeded in obtaining an excellent micro
flashing negative of the grip after it
had been absorbed into the blood through
the mucus membrane of the nasal or.
gans. Dr.. Watkins, who, although not
a member of the medical profession, re-
cognized the Importance of the results
he has obtained and desires to impart
the fact to the public in general.
According to the statements made by
this public benefactor, the grip germ
was photographed by the power Of mag
nifying lenses of 1000 magnitude, the
fash light having the brilliaucy ofthe
ordinary incandescent light. The color
of the germ as seen through the lens
was white. It's sides and fibrous surface
was covered with fine hairs-so that they
could hardly be observed in the origi-
nal micro-photograph. The germ
body seemed to be undergoing constant
changes, and in the meantime to rotate
rapidly, having for an axis the adjacent
healthy blood corpuscles. a germ was
subsequently taken, instead of from the
blood, from the catarrhal discharge of
patient under the treatment of DR.. Wat. {
kins, and the same conditions as stated
above were noticed. He had been atflict.
ed four days with the grip.
The successful examination OF the i
germ under the microscope, aided by I
the flash light, proves conclusively, it is f
said, that the germ attacks rather the t
blood than the mucous membrane, as
in infuenzs, and that the pain expert Y
enced in the various stages of the dis. c
ease is caused by the wonderful activity r
of its minute body. b
DR.. Maggie, another New York phy.
sician, says: =
'There is no mistaking the grip when p
it comes. Many cases of ordinary P
colds, which would pass away in few
days, are exaggerated by persons who s.
think they have the grip and take all a
sorts of nostrums to cure themselves. II
When the grip strikes a person it comes Il
like an avalanche, and something seems
to be the matter with every part of the &
body and each part feels worse than l
the other. Chilly sensations chase each u
other up and down the back, there is n
often distressing dizziness, very severe r
headache in the frontal region, terrible
muscular pains and pains in the joints u
and bones, and great prostration. The II
patient is hardly able to move, and the q
mental depression is 80 great that the y"
patient looses courage and does not care 81
whether he lives or dies. The tempera. i.
ture goes up with wonderful rapidity, s.
and the thermometer often reaches 105 a
degrees and often goes higher. In other
diseases this would be considered an
almost fatal temperature, but patients :,
rally from the grip under proper treat - =,
ment in few days, although the de. - -
preston may last for months" =
Persons who have any symptoms of
the grip are very foolish to try remedies J.,
and should consult q physician at :. -
once. -
"The Telegraph would be doing the r
public a favor" said Macon physician r r
yesterday, "if you would put the people r. r.
On notice concerning the grip.
As in cases Of yellow fever, the great d.
;rouble is before and after When q "
nan is particularly attacked by the grip e
be has the symptoms in more or less -"
marked degree, but persists to himself
hat it is only a cold and that he will th
get over it without leaving his business. "
Here is where he makes his mistake. ce
Penny wise and pound foolish is very Ia
Ipt and applicable saying in this case, to
or when he does get laid on his back re
le will stay there all the longer because
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