Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-06
GRIP GERM
lvsks Tuesday IsfHlrg ia a Badly
Frost BIlt,n Con1ltisr,
Bat is still Lively About Town AFordina
Business and Care for the Doctors
and Druggists.

Nearly everyocs n sill familiar With tie
grip 10 81 the cEla!5s thss be Is = germ,
though ,hs,s has been 10 generally rscog-
n.z ID discovery 0, him.
MsnJ, however. have discovered bis
presence. sna TO ssy tsas be is getting IN
pieassaty aEmsraus in ard sbcu: Aagas,s,
10 nsssn srssxsrs.ion. In the PISS; few
days be has been masing bis presence
widely xnosn by some vigorous work.
There are nov, 50 said ore drugsis. YET
tsYdsy, twenty I've cases Of is grippe on
South Grove s.rsst.
A. all tina I'D ~ dug stores they
gay that the prescription tusine.s has
doomed Of late. "Yoad be surprised re
marked one CT them TO The JoUksAL yester-
day, Ito ksew 0! the large number Of cafes
there are Ia The city. cares that pass for the
grip And most likely are ciose kin to the
troublesome fellow. Oas day We worked
all dag sI.hoas stop putting up pretc'ip
lions Nearly all tbs druggists talk in .
similar strata. II sdti1ou there are many
cases Of sonsilitis, gate = Egmber Of pneu.
monis and c1!ds Am,ss w.thou. end.
" 'Tisn's IS bad as :wo years ago. though,
sadsd one pill maker.
While the leading medical journals in
thslr latest editions considsr the gfip
germ I. aadscovsrsd, DR.. Robert l.
Watkins, = lead!f physiti,n Of New YORK.
10 sail 90 have at las, succseied In OBJ tain
ing an excel!eH; mero G.shlizht negative
Of the gtip germ after IL had sfen absorbed
into the blood througa the Mucous mem
orans Of the nsssl ofgiBs. The srip germ
vas photographed unier thc power Of mag
niiJins lenses Of 1900 mssnilGtss. the
hashlisht hsTif z ths hritlisncy Of The ofal-
nary incandesc ut light The cclGv Of
he germ A. seen through the lens was
.bi'e. Is sides ard f5rtui surface
we're covered With white hsi,s-so ane
tina, they could hardly b. ob,esgei in
the orisinsl micro Photograph The
germ btiy seemed 10 be undergoing COZ
stan. changes and 10 the meantime to ro-
tate rapidly. having for an SKIS the adjs-
cent healthy corpu.cIes. A germ was sub-
s'Gusrtly isksn, Instead Of from the blood
from the css'fhs' discharge Of . pstisn.
uader the treAtfns az Of DE-. Watkins, and
the same eordi ions as stated above were
noticed, BE bad brsu ~ cted f5u, days
With the st2. The an csisflIex,uinati,u
OF the germ urder the micrJsc)pe, silsd
by the atshiight, pr-vss conclasiveiy, Il Is
said, that The germ attacks rather he blood
ihsn the mucCu' membrane IS 10 irlasnz,,
and that the pain tH2erlencsd in the various
stages Of the disease i. e.H.ed By the won
dsrful activity Of is ml6u'e body
But If that stlp germ reslit7 hi, ears
must have been ssvtrely trJst b.:ten Tues
day Fao-oigg This c1ii xps,h risAmost
excellent shtrg to have in sr;esliog the
nTsses u h.s t.scss," said a Ihysician
Ysstsidsr.
may be vel % add :hNthe grip - not
fsshtooshie. tepfIs TO tho contrary, nos-
-lhstsndiug, sl,o Via; persons by constant
wor'y and fear of hiv n; lhe disease may
get ID, m elves tnil eord'i3n resembling
the grip il rot worse. For those Who are
Ar Aions to know when they have the al,
ease or when it is lime to cali in the doctor |
vi ary degree Of suecess. the folio wing |
symptoms whieh 1t is sail yoaUg woman, !
-ho has been studying W grip symptoms, |