The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-01-21
The Grippe

Anything to relieve the prippe
must be publicly beneficial, ana the
following extracts taken from an ar
ticle in the Country Gentleman, by
DR.. Chas II. Lerrigo, will be of inter-
est. DIR. Lerrigo says
Grippe is deadly antagonist,
whether you know it as grippe, inhu-
enza, lightning catarrh, or 'lay grip
py". 1t has been made sport of by
writers, lecturers, and humoristS; but
no one makes sport of diphtheria.
"Yet In their character of poison
Gus influence, diphtheria and influ-
enza have many points of similarity;
the extreme depression, slowness of
recovery, and susceptibility of nervous
tissue make them much alike; so also
the influence of their poisonS upon
the heart-slow ana irregular pulse
which are long maintained, and syme-
times never quite restored.
"Gripp, is not a modern disease.
Epidemirs are recorded as far back as
412 B. Q. There was an epidemic in
! 1S4s, and virulent attack in 1889
1890 which shook the entire world,
stirring the medical fraternity to
seek its cause, and how it was trans
mitted. In 1892 Pfeitfer fastened the
guilt upon very small microhe. A
favorlte idea was that it was trans
mitted 10y the wind, but the investi-
gallon showed it penetrated only
where the wheels of commerce went,
and that it was transmitted from
person to person by contagion. 1t is
highly C ntagious.
"Grippe may run through a family
affecting one member in the nasal
passages, one in the tonsils, another
in he bronchial tubes, and another
in every one of these parts. Nearly
all cases show catarrhal symptoms,
and the Extreme prostration is out of
all proportion to the visible signs of
damage. There is distress in the
noSe-but surely running nose
Should not exhaust vitality Your
throat is sore-but why should sore
trrcat destroy all your ambitionP
You ache like to0thache, but you
fancy a grown person ought not to
want to 60 to bed because OF an ache,
even though he be first hot, then cold.
then hot and cold together. You
don't realize tnat the action of the
germ generates poison which de-
press the great nerve centers that
control respiration, circulation, and
digestion, and that these poisons may
be so virulent as to create depression
from which no recovery is possible.
In early infancy and old age, the dis
ease is often fatal.
There may be very little or no evil
dence of the ordinary accep'e ed symp-
toms of caIarrh OF the nose, throat
and chest, but the fatal ending is be-
cause the nervous system is over
whelmed by the poison.
"The BODY has its own defensive
sgents-the white blood corpuscles
which create an anti-grippe toxin,
and II these are general ed in sufficient
quantities to conquer the poison, the
pulse regains normal, the fever sub
sides, and at this stage usually not
more than Two or three days, we say,
the fever is broken.
WHAT NOT TO DO
''Medicinql agents may help, but
they are as many and varying as the
sympto ms. You Should get the fact
that your own body develops its own
anti-toxin, and your efforts should be
directed to helping it all you can.
Don't take mess Of quinine to
"break it up'' There is no evidence
that quinine has any specific power
over the poison of the grip bacillus;
so, unless your doctor sees some lDdi-
cation for quinine, leave it alone.
Don't use drastic cathartics. Helpful
as may be the possession OF clean