Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-10
MARGERY DAW

Devotes Much Attention TO the Prevail
ing Epidemic She Believes She nA'
scarsd a Fortune Teller Out OF Town
As vet grip has not taken an alarming
form here, said prominent pny slcian
Yesterday. OF course, II Is very pI9 ,,,
lent, but usually Of mild type. Inc
danger is in the complications whlch
NAV arise from it. l. is likely to go haru-
er with people who have tendency 10
heart or lung weakness, and these cases
REQUIRE careful watching.
The symptoms this year are ol1fer-
ent from last. There is great
or tendency to bronchial and
pulmonary affections. Naturally with
elderly people the disease IS haruef
TO combat, and it is among them that
the worst cases now prevail. Speaking
generally, it really is useless TO give
much medicine-rest Is the best ala 10
recovery. In cases Of extreme exhans-
ton the use Of stimulant is necessary
The temperature is likely to run high,
and then something is given to reduce
il. but little can be done, for grip must
run its course. We can only direct, not
stop it,"
"Do YOU think there is anything In
the rumor that DR.. Pfeffer has discover
ed the bacillus of Influenza"
s'As to that l can scarcely give an
opinion, he claims to have done 80, and
further says he has reared 1t artitcially
and has inculcated animals with the
pure culture. II his experiment Is the
success he claims IL will be OF great
value TO the profession"
DR.. Garretson, Of Philadelphia, in
recent lecture touched on the prevail
ing epidemic and gave some interest
ing points. "La Grippe is mystery ne
said-what is the dis OF la grippeT
Here medicine is compelled to confess
its ignorance. Certainly there is now
prevalent i dis that is the cause OF in
reference with ease in manner as
general as it is extensively ditfused.
Just what il is nobody has yet found
out. Being epidemic and not endemic
it relates necessarily with some general
condition.
Not knowing what the dis is we are
without a specific antidote, and our
treatment has TO be confined to helping
nature fight her antagonist. IL becomes
then in every instance battle in which
the stronger wins. The condition OF la
grippe being epidemic, its cause is
equally about every person. To take
cold is to favor an attack by lowering
the natural reSistive force. To exhaust
ones self from any couse Is to favor Ia
grippe. 1t is disease of cold or warm
weather, but people are less apt to De
affected in cold dry weather, simply by
reason of kind OF unconscious care
they take of themselves. A warm damp
day favors la grippe for the reason that
on such day people get overheated
and expose themselves.
Not knowing what Ia grippe is, our
treatment is necessarily what we learn
from observation. II is depressing
condition, so we are to do nothing that
adds to the depression. Force is used
up by the simple act Of walking, so we
save this force by ceasing temporarily
to walk. We do nothing in any way
ayoidable that uses force. La grippe Is
disturbance Of the equilibrium. When
there is a disturbance Of the equilib-
rum the weak point Is the danger
point; hence, la grippe is some
thing different to almost every diff
ferent person. A not uncommon weak
point is the heart. The pulse will run
up among the nineties and the tempera-
ture increase from one TO three or four
degrees. Perhaps the lung Is the weak
point, and finds itself unable to antag-
onize an excess Of blood poured into 1t;
hence pneumonia, most formidable
complication.
THE treatment Of la grippe is treat
ment Of symptoms. Treatment OF symp-
toms is one with restoration Of equlil-
brium. 1t is to put right what is found
to be wrong. He alone is doctor suffi-
Gent to the occasion who knows how to
restore equilibrium. Quinine and
strychnine may be the best Of medicine,
they may be the worst. The same is to
be said OF digitaliS and Of aconite. Rest,
absolute rest, is never anything but
good, also alcohol and hand bathing,
where there is hot skin.
"RestlessneSs is most proftably CON-
batted by use of the bromide Of potash
in doses Of fifteen grains, dissolved in a
tablespoonful of water; the dose TO be
repeated every three hours. A strong
lull pulse IS DeSJ pulleu uOnu ny d
moderate purge of EPSON salts, or five
drops OF tincture Of verataum viride
may be taken twice Of thrice aday until
the pulse-force- is reduced. Common
cider vinegar, in tablespoonful doses, Is
always good where there are typhoid
symptoms or dlarrh9a, this dose TO be
repeated four 70 six times day."
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don't set myself up as o reformer,
and yet my little suggestion to the new
Chief of Police has scared one Of the
fortune tellers enough to cause her to
''bow herself out of town." Nor is this
all. l am told on reliable authority
that my squib of last Sunday concern
ing the street car system called forth
the lengthy article in Wednesdays In
teIliqencer, containing the assurance
that the system would be improved.
So, perhaps, in a quiet way, l am, after
all, giving my mite in aid of reform.
MARGERY DAw.
HAwTHoRNE's BET.