The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-25
NrICRoBE OF THE GRIP.
A Traveller without Legs or Wings.
A Dangerous, Deadhead and Stow
away.
From the New York Sun.

a"ays
From the New York Sun.
DR.. Albert Prieur and DR.. L. Gaze in
the Revue des Revues give some details
in regard to the whims of influences and
the pecuIiarities of it's microbe. Here is
what DR.. Prieur says:
influenza, that queer and ugly word
with which the grip clothed itself in 1902,
when 1t was raging in Italy, was first and,
unfortunately, brought into the medical
vocabulary by Prof. Huxham. 1t is true
that he was never very proud of his in
vention, and up to a comparatively recent
date doctors and patients continued to
employ the good old word, grip invented
in the last century by Sauvages de Mont
pellier doubtless to depict the peculiar
expression of countenance Whlch belongs
to those who are unlucky enough to con
tract the disease.
without going into the details of
pathological chapter on the subject, IL may
be necessary to call attention to the fact
that the word grippe or influenza is too
often carelessly and enormously employed.
OF course for doctor the grip, strictly
speaking is difficult to diagnose at us
commencement, and ii often happens that
the medical man cannot tell whether ne
is dealing with a ca tarrhal or hay fever,
or with a serious Infection, like angina,
SMALLPOX or typhoid. But, nevertheless,
the grip has an appearance peculiar 70
itself, which, at a given moment, OUTSIDE
of all meteorological examination, at oest'
vague in the beginning, facilitates us
dia gnoSis.
'sBut to attempt to describe the various
and capricious symptoms of the grip out
side of medical literature, properly speak
ing would be 20 attempt the Impossible
Sometimes 1t starts with furious az
tack and some times IL begins with HI
tie indispositions that last three or Iour
days. But there are three forms Whlch
are noteworthy: First, the nervous FORM
with its terrible headaches, neuralgia,
Iumbago and alternatives of physical ana
mental depression, followed by excite
ment that later reaches denrium; second
ly the respiratory form which aocahzeS
itself in one or several of the organs the
nose, the pharynx, the larynx, tho
trachea, the bronchial tubes ana the LUNGS
Indeed, it may spread itself through them
alb; thirdly, the digestive form, some
times accessory, but more frequent anu
more tenacious than people commons W
lieve it to be, and reaching from slinPre
gastric trouble to the most intense gas'io-
intestinal manifestations.
Now. although the delimitation OF these
three forms is somewhat theoretical, the
forms themselves belong to three paitiC-
ular states: The cardiac symptoms winch
may follow pulmonary troubles, OF eAh
by themselves in an organ already preul9
posed: urinal, sensorial ana cutdneUus
troubles, accompanied by fever tnd'
may manifest all sorts of caprlces. Ineie
fore, 1t is easy to see that the grip o.
ing all the recesses of che organism at Us
disposal, may be mild in one case anI
dangerous in another. 1t attacks ever!
organ and presents itself In all sortS vi
forms. Nevertheless, it has its own peGu,
liar mark, its own seal which ehapieS
the medical man to recognize 1t in spi'e
of all it's fantastic DISCUSSES. Like an iii'
fections, it goes straight for the preuis-
posed organ. Moreover, the grip - ~
sentially epidemic and contagious ou1 :"
most cases 1t is not very serious ulseasS,
if the patient is prudent and the oool0'
vigilant." =.
DR.. l.. Gaze introduces us to the mlc :, ~,
of the grip. THE grip, or intuenZa' Nv
saws. "is due to a wandering mlcrope'
which like that of the cholera, traVels III
land and sea. In November last tllS ~
EQUITABLE insect was in Turkey "H' :,
it's presence was noted scientncaily
travelled along the great lines oil CON
merce' and arrived at several points OF lne
Old and New World. 1t was Prof. hoDVse
Pfeffer of Berlin, who discovered W.
bacillus in 1892, and since then 1t is KEEP :"
reserve in laboratory cultures, like It's ~
atives of tuberculosis, typhus, malaIla
hydrophobia and yellow fever Inc W..
crobe enters the human system throusn
the nose and mouth. The germ IN Ioin"
looks little like an egg, and 1t Is GOV
cred by a shell. The interior is coHPUs"
of cellular white mass, like the WIN
of an egg. and in the center OF ems
the protoplasm. which can be compare
TO the yolk of an egg. Once in the NUM- ei
body, the bacillus settles down to pusl,
ness and spreads abroad the LIQUID poisVn
which causes influenza. 1t is not tao
germ which produces the malady, put '"'
toxic matter which emanates from IL.
THE bacillus of the influenza hos neltnt.
legs nor wings, and, although II eau
move along of les own accord, 1t Is cor
stantly travelling. How does 1t traVel' ~
attaches itself to moving bodies OF az
kinds. Certainly the germ may SOM
times be carried along in the WIND, pu.
in most cases It reaches the human pouS
by contagion. Once installed there "
increases and multiplies enormously au'
in a very short time"
Rev. DR.. Orello Cone. well known for