The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-29
DOCTORS DISCUSS GRIP
Baltimore Practitioners Explain
lis Peculiar characteristics.
The Origin of the Disease and How
IL IL Observation-Disclosures and ScnrIe5
orders Fhatt Follow the MaIady-
often the Cause II insanity.

orders Z Ant Follow the NaladE -
Gften The Cause II insanity.
BALTIMORE. Jan. 29.-GIip and things
connected with il were The topics CT dis
cussion last night At tne meeting Of the
Baltimore Medical and Surgical Associa-
ton The most important point brought
ont b The papers read Was the great
weahcl-ing effect of grip and the tendency
resulting jhe-eIrom 10 develop OF increase
the effects of any other disc Sc. the germs
Of which may be ii the system at the time
the victim is seized by tie strip.
Dr.. ". Royal Stokes read the first pa
per. It being on the causes ana disiribu-
ton 81 The disease. He said that The Ia
ciIlUs WAS discovered in 1872 md that It
can be detected in the blood ma breath.
but IS not readily cultivated il iabcrato-
ries. 1t Is killed By a heat Of so degrees
cenJigrsIe. and is also readily killed by
drying. twenty-four hours exposure to
drying being sufficient From the fact
that II IS so readily killed by drying he
Thought little faith is 10 be put ia the
theories that it can be spread over
large section Of Inc country in a short
time ~ the winds as, for Instance. icing
blown from France 10 Engl@ud in twsn-
ty-four hours
Or. Stokes told how experiments had
shown that the bacilu Of tuberculosis or
consumption are projected 10 dis ance Of
one yard from al injected person when he
coughs, and that while any number Of the
dry bacilli may be blown into the GosJrlls
OF an animal and il will not catch the dis
ease. he animal viii be- ONE affected Il il
receives tie baciln IN the form Of moist
spray such as in cough. Reasoning from
this and several other experiments which
were cited it was deduCed that grip is il
fictitious when coughed OUT in the eatarT-
hal form and il IS by such coughing that
il is transmitted. This infectious charac-
ter was urged as being especially imPOT-
tant and the statement Was made thaJ pa
tieurs should be isolated with the same
care as in other infectious diseases
As an Illustration OF this a case WAS
cited Of a ship which sailed with one grip
patient, and before the voyage was OWE
2GI Of the people on board mad caught Il.
On the other hand, in a European mOnas-
terry where the mCnlIS dwelt IN separate
cells only four OF them we're affected IN
a time when there was general cpl femic-
Dr. Stokes then went into the histGry Of
The trouble and said that the first case Of
grip noted was in 412 3. c.. and that tie
first great general epidemic, or pandenic,
was in 1872 and that there had been OUT
breaks OF more or less severity in rouga
periods CT twenty years ever since. These
epidemics seem to start in China and
reach Europe through Siberia and Russia
Dr. S K. Merrick spoke Of the effects
upon the -pharynx. He said that the
popular name grip "as caused Ey the TACT
that one OF the symptoms CT the disease
in many cases was 10 cause a Iightnes5
in the region Of the bridge Of he nose. IS
if someone were gripping II with his
fingers He told of many remarka bic Ie-
suits which had followed a severe attack
of the grip. among them partial or total
loss of the sense OF smell or peculiar al
fectiCns of that sense. Among other in
stances he cited that Of a patient OF his
upon yehCm most OduTifeTOUs objects rad
no effect. and when she could notice hat
there was an oder attached 10 il it Was
always OF a combination OF iCd0form and
onions. Among the few things which he
tried her with and found that she could
smell them was n bunch OF roses and
box Of medicated tablets Both had the
same odor-iodoform and onions. To
most OF the other objects, even strong
chemicals, her nose was utterly indiuer-
ent.
Dr. Charles " Mitchell in discussing
grip as seen in children said that il was
more liable to be caught by the very
young than the ordinary infectious dis
eases. \ point of interest N children
is the apparently antagOnism between
grip and other diseases
1t has been stated recently that the
prevalence of grip had been very beue-
fetal in reducing the number OF scarlet
fever cases Some claim that fresh VacCi-
nation secures immunity but this is a
dpr4lTfYTf 81 he 1ngfrr ghQngnr
and said that as the Baltimore health
commissioners are about 10 begin an active
vaccination campaign there Will be excel
lent opportunities here 10 see how much
there is in the theory. He remarked that
in children there was sometimes a tender
cy toward eruption in conjunction with the
grip. and that the eTUDtiOns TeSembIed
these of scarlet fever, but that those sim
liar TO the measles also occur The ulti-
mate consequences OF the grip in children
are not so severe as in adults, narticU-
larry the mental depression is not so
great.
DR. David STREET. read a paper on the
symptoms and Il eat
ment. He was followed by Dr. A D M
Conachie with paper upon the results
upon the eye and ear. He said there was
no distinctive trouble OF the eye which
could be attributed to grip, but that known
troubles were likely 10 be the after Re
SUITS IN more OF less StIIDus LEEIte5-
the ear complications are also apt to fol
low grip and he IS of the opinion that in
the last four or five years the hospital
records will show that the mastoid opera
lions have increased nearly 100 per cent
DR.. Charles G. Hill. president Of the as
ISOLATION. closed the meeting with an ad-
dress upon the nervous disorders which
are liable to follow grip He said that
such disorders are innumerabI BILE Among
them is one reaching the nerves In the
heart and responsible for some OF the
sudden deaths. 1t has been followed by
almost every form of insanity, especially
InsaniJies caused by grip
are peculiar in their persistency. In the
last ten years about 80 per cent OF the
cases we're cured while the ether 30 per
cent became chronic. Another peculiar
feature OF the grip when il causes lnSani-
~ IS its little liability TO become fatal
The insanit les, especially the meiancho-
las are liable to become dementias. but
not complete dementias. He told the
case OF a man who went insane from the
grip. and while ne had sense enough left
TO walk around the grounds and come in
10 his meals, could never learn to remem-
Der certain people. among them the doe
tor and always spoke to them as pleas
ant strangers whom he was meeting for
the first time
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