The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-10-18
SPANISH INFLUENzA"-" THREE
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What is Spanish influenza? Is it new? Does it come from Spain?
 The disease now occurring in this country and called Spanish Infiuen- ga" resembles a very contagious kind of ''cold" accompanied by fever, pains in the head, eyes, ears, back or otherparts of the body, and feel ing of severe sickness. In most of the cases the symptoms disappear after three or four days, the patient then rapidly recovering; some of the patients, however, develop pneumonia or inflammation of the ear, or menin- gitis, and man for these complicated cases die. Whether this so-called Spanish influenza is identical with the epidemics of influenza of earlier years is not yet known.
 Epidemics of influenza have visited this country since 1647. It is inter- esting to know that this first epidemic was brought here from Valencia, Spain. Since that time there have been numerous epidemics of the disease. In 1889 and 1890 an epidemic of influenza, starting somewhere in the Orient, spread first to Russia, and thence over practically the entire civilized world. Three years later there was another f1are-up of the dis ease. Both times the epidemic spread widely over the United States
 Although the present epidemic is called Spanish influenza there is no reason to believe that it originated in Spain. Some writers who have studied the question believe that the epidemic came from the Orient and they call attention to the fact that the Germans mention the disease as occurring along the eastern front in the summer and fall of 1917.
 How Can Spanish InfIenza be Rec ognized?
 There is as yet no certain way in which single case of Spanish in fuenza" can be recognized; on the other hand, recognition is easy where there is a group of cases. In con- trast to the outbreaks of ordinary coughs and colds, which usually oc- cur in the cold months, epidemics of influenza may occur at any season of the year, thus the present epidemic ragged most intensely in Europe in May. June and July. Moreover, in the case of ordinary colds, the gener- al symptoms fever, pain, depressiOnl are by no means as severe or as sud den in their onset as they are in in- fluenza. Finally, ordinary colds do not spread through the community so rapidly or so extensively as does in- f1uenZa.
 In most cases a person taken sick with influenza feels sick rather sud- denly. He feels weak, has pains in the eyes, ears, head or back, and may be sore all over. Many patients feel dizzy, some vomit. Most of the pa tients complain of feeling chilly, and with this comes fever in which the temperature rises to 100 to 104. In most cases the pulse remains rela- lively slow.
 In appearance one is struck by the fact that the patient looks sick. His eyes and the inner side of his eyelids
 
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 In addition to the appearance and the symptoms as already described, examination of the patients blood may aid the physician in recognizing Spanish influenza" for it has been found that in this disease the num- Der of white corpuscles shows little or no increase above the normal. II is possible that the laboratory inses tigations now being made through the National Research Council and the United States Hygienic Labora tory will furnish a more certain way in which individual cases of this dis ease can be recognized.
 What is the course of the disease