The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-01-02
RETURN OF LA GRIPPE
Victims of Former Y ears Who Feel the
SYMPTOMS Again


During the changeable, chilly and damp
weather experienced recently there have
been great many people who have felt
the return Of the Russian affection, la
grippe, or grip, which became fashion
able couple Of years ago. The weather,
it cannot be doubted has been very favor
able to grip wave, and great many
people have felt it, but it is very doubtful
whether it has yet certainly arrived. On
this point Globe Democrat reporter, who
had had two severe attacks of the disease,
one lasting five weeks and the second one
nine, sought information yesterday. He
had caught all the dampness and chill
ness of Yelled Prophets night and had
had similar experience on big Thursday
at the fair grounds. Again he had, while
feeling miserable, suffered the rain and
penetrating dampness of last Tuesday,
during the night having all of the grip
symptoms and feelings.
Somewhat alarmed at the prospect of q
third attack of the once fashionable but
now dreaded disease, the physician was
called. Biliousness and a cold was
ascribed as the cause of illness, and medi-
cine was prescribed for this. 1t was of
continued, the pains and aches becoming
even more intense. A night of torment
followed, with all of the back and muscu-
lar aches imaginable, and Thursday the
patient was satisfied it was the grip and
nothing but the grip. Again the physi-
clan insisted that it was biliousness and a
cold, and the treatment was continued.
There was day of suffering, aches and
pains, and, it seemed, double measure
of the dependency which accompanies
the grip. The first part of the night was
about the same, pains and sleeplessness.
Then came more quiet feeling and rest.
but with the arising in the morning there
was all the tired-outedness, languor and
laZiness that follows through the grin
convalescence. The patient could move
around, but feeling like sinking down
into chair at every opportunity. The
weakness that demands rest when there
has been no physical or mental exertion
that would even hint of suggestion of
rest. Then the physician, who is one of
large practice, and who, as well as hav-
ing had large number of grip patients,
has had the disease himself, explained:
You may rest assured, +" he said, that
we are going to have the grip. This
weather has given it a start, and it can
hardly disappear this season, but there is
one thing you must remember: A person
who has had the grip once will, with al
most any ordinary or temporary illness,
feel almost all, if not all, of the symptoms
and experiences of the grip, just as in
your case. 1 have had number of pa
tients who have tried to convince me thew
had the grip. They are satisfied they had;
they have had all the feelings, and they
have gone over the symptoms and ex-
periences as only physician can go over
them, even after having had it a year ago.
for people soon forget these things unless
their profession demands study of them.
But. notwithstanding this, have not had
case of the grip, pure and simple. I
expect many of them, but they have not
commenced, and people do not appreciate
this because of the recurrence of the grip
symptoms and experiences with other
ailments
a number of other physicians of ex-
perience were questioned yesterday, and
while they all generally indorse these
views they also as generally express the
opinion that the grip will again this win
ter give the doctors and the druggists an
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