The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-10-17
SPANISH "FLUE. +"
Some Facts Relating 10 the Disease
Now Sweeping Entire Country.


With schools churches. places Of
amusement. etc. en- closed tight in
Fulton county ou account on the cpl
iemic of Spanish Influenza. and with
hundreds 0f oar citizens -sick-a bed"
the subject o. naturally one Df more
fiau passing Interest
As many know. This disease rp-eui-
lles very contagious kind 81 cold"
hy fever. pains in the
head. eyes. ears back and other parts
of the body and feeling Of severe
sickness In most of fhe eases the
SYMPTOMS disappear after three Of four
DAYS. thc patient then rapidly recov- /.
erine. come Of fhe patients however.
develop pneumonia or Inflammation
nf the ear Oh meningitis. and many -
These cnmulicuted cases die. Whether
this so-ralied spanish influenza is
Identical with thc epidemic of iuiiu-
enza 81 EARLIER years d. not known
Endemic of influenza have visited
this country since 1871 DO Is inter
csfiug to know chat thr FIRST epidemic
was brought here from Valencia
spain Since that time there have
been numerous euidemirs of the dis
ease. IN ISSg and 1850 an epidemic 4
of influenza starting somewhere in
the Orient. spread first to Russia. aud I
lied world Three years later there /
was another hare-up of the disease.
Both times the epidemic spread widely /
over the United States.
Although tine present epidemic f.
called Spanish influenza" there d. mol
reason to believe That it originated Ia
spain. Some writers who have studied
the question believe That the epidemic
came from the Orient and they cal
mains mention thc disease as occurring
along rIe eastern front .u the summer
of 1917
There Is as yct uo certain way in
which single case uf spanish im-
nueuza" can he recognized, on the
other hand recognition is easy whore
there o. group Df cu~cs Ia contrast
o. fhe outbreaks Of ordinary coughs
and colds. which usually occur in the
cold months epidemic~ of influeuza
may oecur at amy season Of the year.
thus fle present epidemic ragged most
intensely in Europe Ore May. June and
july Moreover. in the case 81 ordi-
marry colds THE general symptoms tfs.-
ver uaiu depression are hy no means
as severe or as sudden in their oufscr
as they are in influenza. Finally. or
dinlrv colds do not spread through
the community So rapidly or 30 exc
fenSivelv as does Influenza.
I'm most cI~e~ "a person tkcn sick
with influenza feels sick rafher sud-
denly Tie feels weak las pains in
The ewes. ears. head nr back and may
be- sore an over Many patients feel
dizzy. SOME Vomit. Most Of thc PSI
ffenf~ cauirinfn ~ feeling chilis aud
with This cune~ fever iu whici NJ
femrerafure rises fn lpu % lof Do
most csi~c~ the pulse remains r,la-
|fifeiy slow.
On auuenrancc ONO IS struck by fife
facf chat fhe patient lOns~ sick. HIS
ewes aud thc inner side uf HI eyehas
I MAY De- slightly ~hIuul shot 1T -cifu-
es.~r,d.- u~ fhc doctors say. There may
ih. running from The nose. or there
mas pee some cough These signs 81 %
cold may he marked; nevertheless the
patieuf looks and feels very sick.
lu addition to the appearance ar.i
] fIa symptoms as already described.
: examination 81 The patients blood
mnv ail fle physician Coz recognizing
[ spanish influenza for u has b,'ti'
found thuf in this disease the number
uf white corpu-cies shows little on no
inrrea~,. above the normal
What il the course 81 the disease.
Do people die Of its
ordinarily the fever lrSfs FROM
three to four days and the patient re-
IrnvcrS bur while the proportion ui
deaths in the present epidemic has
! generally been low. Ia some places Oh,
outbreak has been severe and deaths
l.. numerous. when death OCCURS il J.
be- usually thc result Of complication.
D.. Bactcrioiugi~ls who have studied
"a influenza epidemicS in the past have
b, found in many Of the eases very
-.nall rod shaped germ called. after
itS discuverer. Pfeifcr's bacillus. Ia
/ other eases If apparently tine SAINT
. Kind 81 disease there were found pneu
T.. rioeucci the germs Of lObar pneumo
:, mia. Sfim others have been caused Pig
strrpfococci. and rs other germs wild
ilug names.
va matter what particular kind 81
germ cgu~e~ tho epidemic. II j. nov
ir believed that influenza is alway'
Do spread from person to person. tli'
ir germ being carried with the air alon.
Is with the very small dropiets Of mucu
p expelled by coughing or sneezing. force
a. fh talking and the like. hy one who al
ready Inns the germs of the diSca -
They may also be carried about in th'
air iu the form Of Gust coming iron
dried muciI~. from coughing and sneez
- ing. or from cIrclcSs people who spt
CA the noor or On the sidewalk. a
ia most other catching diseases. per
son who has only a mild attack Of ti'
disease himself may give "A very seri
Gus attack 10 others
II l. very important that every per
I son who becomes sick with iniluenzs
/ should 90 home AT once and 20 Go bed
4 This viii help TO keep away dangerous
4 complications and VIII at the same
time. keep the patient from scattering
the disease far and wide. IL l. highly
I desirable that no one be allowed @
sleep IN the same room with the pa
tient. In fact. no one but the nurs'
should IT, allowed IN the room.
l III there Is cough and Spuium 81
running of the eyes and nose. care
should be taken that all such dis
4 mr. no ar ion