The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-22
Ia GRIPPE CONSIDERED.
What the Doctors Have to Say of This
Singular Malady.
Especial Correspondence.]

Il
! Especial Correspondence
| NEW YORK, Jan. lin Christmas week
of 1889 l started out one morning not feel
ing very well, but by no means counting
myself Ill. Before the afternoon had passed,
however, was suffering severely with a
cold in the head, a pain in the chest and an
aching of the bones which reminded me of
my experience with break bone fever in
New Orleans several years before. In the
office | was told by my friends that l had
the new epidemic which had played sad
havoc in Europe and had just made its APP
pearance on this side of the ocean. | went
home and sent for my doctor When he
came / said:
Doctor. | have the grip"
Indeed, replied he, with smile near
ly akin to asncer, so has my grandfather's
great grandmother
He evidently did not believe in the grip.
and said that ouly had bad cold and an
influenza. 1t may be that that was all,
but it was the most inconvenicnt and trou-
biesorae bad cold in my experience. But
pulled through IN few days. During he
following year. lucky man that l was L
did not need 20 see my doctor at ali. In
JANUARY, however. Of 1897, WAS attacked
precisely as ! had been the year before.
Again seat for nv doctor and again | in
formed him that ! had the grip. This time
he did not sHeer aud talk TO me about any OF
his grandmCthers, but put me through
course Of treatment and acknowledged
that it was .he prevailing epidemic that
had seized upon ne. / MERTON this eX-
perience, because in the first year Of the
appearance OF IA grippe a gEeer many con-
seryatlye medical men we've skepticaI about
the PREVAILING disease being in any wise
different from tie ordinary colds which
abound ever y inter. But oil OF them
have been Glige8 to abandon sCch ideas
and 20 sc'z-oa edge thas la grippe IS pre-
ciseiy gLzt Sic European doctors saIi It
was wl4e-, It ,sgpt.rc3 n Russia in NoveU1-
Der CT 1889 alc rapidly spread over Europe
and America als,.
La grippe : rv rc .n7ars a new disease,
but it APPEARS az IlateEvats =. long that the
great majority OF ttose Ntc ave during
ore OF its Tz.EcGs i. Hct ss,sy re II another
arrives. l. sNc- rgca-d inst this cIse~ sc
Gtts.k4d re II MAN army during the
peioPoIErs.an S.r. 4Er, Years bore TIC
Christian - AlC ccr. re III is
time every l-v az a-1ir :, B7s -r--'ed.
I, I5+, Jue c:ses 2 orji;ne-sd "a ~,
spread o-cc i.sIope aed ans 80 % 20
Spanish coioEies in AIueiisz f. lSfi --ssc
was anothes 80 a&Istx - Il l. EcEg-a ~-s
ills tire h e .1re to Che SrsYr q IL,
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VICES 10 nov va - .ttscr re - IA 81
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ald The ccccs>.c-, 30 c-si-c q ~ ne sTesi-
dent, John Tyler l.'Iea Il WAS c..Ii-1i tie
'''Iyler --riD, o5st q compliment . tAs
president. whose course was wosTg7-lss his
parry associates as mach rs The cfscSse
troubled the people 81 large IhcR Is aE-
pCsrc3 :-Csin n December, 1889, cane back
lest winter and rcapTs1red this present
season It VIII De gratifying 70 know tiiaS
TIE p-Cri01s epi,le-TEICs usually ran t-letr
coarse IN three ycaxs and disappeared.
though = hzs lasted - lo1- rs FIVE y-esaE-s-
30 many persons nave bad tae disease
thai II vCu'G b waste OF SPACE 70 DC
scTi5e che svEaTsora q the ula,aay. ProE-
ably there j. -. g family in tie 4 -lfea
States soE1e TneuI'@- @ winch has n7F
beea q " s-.9,. Therefore. il every .iss'-se-
bold 4. .,rt-s..e l. known v5is.l i .l.1ae-svs-
IS 20 i-< r-s-sse there Las oseeE -sglcl. IseIi-
lS,I5a. Ia= p7-1.sp siE-- cas.ss - The
disease arr t.s-~sLI-sFy. -i-hE ess-1i1t.o
coup.el Nvith pes s..af s.-41gsalse-3@ sf.s1es
TIE exciting g.suSs.- v.tlc-gl G1Ja-- =
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SIMPSONS tisat cssars.sSrrsss. the Ca@sase
Dr Cyrus Esi~ca. the ehsef Inspector a ne
heaitR departures: oi New 1orE city Las