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Show oo WHAT !S THE SOURCE OF GRIP? Grip, la grippe, influenza.' Three termrfof a very annoying disease -wnich) ever'one seems to experience. In Ogden the youngsters have measles meas-les and the grown-ups the grip, and those "who have been overlooked by both afflictions must have occupied very obacure positions when the germs were being passed around. Pneumonia has followed In the wake of the grip with distressing results. The first great wave of influenza in this country to hold attention, was in 1883, when the disease was traced to Russia. Then in 1889, la grippe reappeared re-appeared as an epidemic. One of our leading medical men suggests that the grip may be spread by horses, and says: "That grip Is catching Is well established, es-tablished, but there is some question about how it is catching. Last winter win-ter the shut-ins almost escaped the disease. The Inmates of prisons and other closed institutions escaped. I was in a hospital while It was raging. We who were patients escaped. The doctors and others who come to attend us did not. This lack of evidence that the unusual prevalence of grip was due to spreading by human beings caused Mathers to study an epidemic of influenza influ-enza In horses which prevailed at the Chicago stock yards last winter. He found that the sickness in horses ran about the same course as in human beings. be-ings. The cocus found In human influenza in-fluenza and that in horse influenza seemed to be the same. Dr. Capps thinks horse influenza the most promising prom-ising fiold in which to search for the cause qf grip. In 1693 Mollneaux wrote: "It was remarkable that both in England and In Dublin shortly before be-fore the outbreak of the influenza there vras a disease prevalent among the horses not a severe type, but general, gen-eral, which manifested Itself in a discharge dis-charge from the nostrils of the animals." ani-mals." In 1782 Gibson described a re- -v I markable epizootic among the horses in London and several other parts of the no ways mortal, yet was so catching catch-ing that when any horse was seized with it I observed that those that stood on each hand of him were infected in-fected as soon as he began to run at the nose." In 17G7 Mumsen described an epidemic called the horse cold, which also occurred among men." Hlrsch referred to a long list of horse epidemics, many of which were coincident co-incident with epidemics of influenza in human being." on |