Arizona weekly republican., 1893-01-19

ot 1t. The grip is not simple common catarrh, slight cold in the head as many are inclined to think,
 It IS strictly speaking an epidemic catarrhal .ever. it is specific affection
 not inirequently attended with much | iebrile action, general constitutional i of disturbance, many complications
 and prolonged prostration, Occasionally it has spread over wide districts and had all of the characteristics oi an epi- demic. As to how the dlsease may
 arise in different sections of this or any other country there is divergence oi opinion among those best informed upon the subject. Sometimes it seems
 to originate spontaneously and other | times 1t is traceable to it's source and | there is link within link as it were
 in its connection, Though epidemic. in
 It's character 1t frequently passes by a section 1t would be eXpec ed to visit. | Some who believe in the contagious
 ness ot the affection claim that it is' carried by those affected from one | part to aGother. Ii thls were so It will l be readily seen how easy it's spread
 might occur in this country where the | tendency of the people is to travel con | siderably by reason oi greater railroad | development as well as the desire to | soIOurn from place to place. 1t is not uncommon Tor the disease to suddenly
 manifest itself in parts removed to q
 considerable distance from the section
 where it prevails. Whole cities and states are thus affected when it is least expected.
 | Not only is the human family thus affected, but at the same time the low. CT animals may suffer in the same way. ! The so called epizoOtic that has oc- casionally prevailed, among horses is | quite similar in many of it's character Istics to the Grip and like it has seemed 1 to take as it were a circuit in it's yislta. tiOn over the whole habitab ble globe. In turn the disease finds itself evcrv- where and no climate or soil serves to eliminate it. It is rot generally con sidered as contagious in the strictest sense of the word. Undoubtedly it is due to certain atmospheric condi- tions. It has been claimed to result from minute organism found in the air and thus taken into the system. | The rapid spread of the disease would seem to indicate its transmission through | the atmOS Dhere.
 Its appearance is not confined to certain seasoLs of the year as is gener- ally supposed, on the contrary it may appear at any time and find entrance and development in the system. In some cases it is slow in developing lyiTg dormant and gradually asserting itself
 In the majority of cases it is sudden in | utfapk a tnnG utlypt in l robust health.
 | In some diseases a single attack is ! sufficient preventive to avoid subse- | quent one, not so with the grip. It is not uncommon to see one attack fol- | lowed at a brief interval with another, | the liability of repetition being in- creased rather than decreased. It has | been asserted by some authors that ! there is connection between the grip
 and other diseases, with regard to such
 relation the evidence to date is not satisfactory or conclusive. Statistics upon thls point are limited and not au- thoritalive. We do not believe that 1t | as been proven that the grip is pre- ceded by cholera or that scarlet fever disappears with its prevalence.
 There does not seem to be any direct connection between the prevalence of measels and the grip, nor is there any ! less of acute affections like rheumatism, i pneumonia and the like when the grIp | prevails. If it be allowed that this | disease be conveyed by specific agent 1 connected with the atmosphere as an exciting cause the germ theory is cer-
 tainly very reasonable and It is not at ! all improbable that this affection like
 many others has it's specific germ of an organic nature, microscopic Tn minnte-
 ness and produced in a way in which
 we are at present unable to fully de- | termine.
 ] This affection, as has been stated, is
 common to the whole human family
 and in all parts of the world. Men,
 women and children are all subject to it, those advanced in lie are more Be-
 verelv affected, and old people are es-
 pecially apt to be carried off by it. In
 middle and early life the mortality is
 very much less, though at all times
 there is liability of compl cations like
 bronchitis and pneumonia. Unques-
 tionably, persons who are in unfavOr-
 able hygienic surroundings, in low,
 damp situations, with houses poorly
 ventilated, are more readily attacked
 by the grip and when once taken with
 the disease if is much severer. There.
 fore great care should always be had to
 have the patient as favorably situated
 as possible. Notwithstanding favor
 able hygienic conditions, the grip some
 times proves fatal to many, though as a
 rule if person exercises proper
 care and employs right treatment, the
 disease will run mild course. By
 reason of the complications liable tc
 follow the affection those whC
 are weakly in constitution, those
 at the extremes of life, whether
 children or the aged, all who
 are feeble and readily affected by
 depressing and facilitating influences
 sould always be on their guard, since
 too great care cannot be exercised, fOl
 the simple reason that mild attack o
 the grip may be the beginning of other
 complaints of the most serious charac'
 ter.
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