The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-27
By ]. II. DUCkWORTH.
\. +. A. staff Correspondent

Boston, Sept. 27.-Spanlsh influenza,
rapidly spreading throughout the
country and whose focus of infection
is in Boston, where some 10000 cases
have occurred, is germ disease
It is a patriotic duty to keep well.
All sick persons add to the country's
burdens. Everybody should be on
guard against Flu" and become famil-
lar with symptoms and precautionary
measures.
known also as Spanish fever and
as grippe, Spanish inflenza rayaged
France in the fourteenth century and
has frequently laid England low. 1t
is even referred to in works OF an
Gent physicians.
After talking with Health Commits
sioner Woodward, the faculty at Har-
ward medical school and physicians at
City hospital, where hundreds OF VIC
tins are treated, can give an au-
thoritative description of the cause
and effects of this dread disease and
ways to avoid it.
= Nature Of Germ.
Spanish influenza has nothing to do
with a bad cold. Being highly infec-
tious disease caused by particularly
energetic germ, it is a parasitic dis
s snre,d;rs m.lai,ios becausa If the ran
81 ;nn,,to+;o, ~ no oorn, Tho MI
nute disc.like bacillus is found in lit
tle 'o eronns or in nairs Under the mi
c c,1 Up T. u is seen that each bacillms
is sta;ped at fhe noles. a clear band
re,na;,,ina ~ the. middle In this 10
snact # resemhles Tho Ma eue bacillus.
It.is ,no,,nd IN the HOOD though here
- .,is 1comnarat;velv inactive and in
anormous nnmhers in the bronchial
mncns whence # is coughed nm to re-
now ;ts nernic;o1s work This germ
forms toy;ns a. nelson's which con-
t;nme on tho .ramnaae, long after an
10 rant 1recoverv II exerts such a.
general devitaiizing effect on the it's
snas that ntherl3 dangerous micro-or-
aan;sms wh;ch nrIin 3 r;lv are hold in,
eha he. u ~, ~ mn aid catarrh. pneumoJ
n;a ,ard Observation-Disclosures develon. It
no 6 ir,;;la IN af III Sc I. snver- worked and
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and" lmnps d For this reason. rest. mi
triton Va rrmth and gtonics are imnort-
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