| Show LEEP DEATH STRIKES DOWN I OUNG UNG AND WHAT AGED IS IT flOW iU AFTER AffE ll I Ii EN NIA ZA Vt lin in Former Epidemic Victims May Get It It t i E. E C. C Rodgers Deta Detailed led to Inver- Inver the the Lethargic Encephalitis j m c A III March In oun r hospital five persons person lie Ie AI t the brink ot of death Doc Doc- d ell could do little but buth h patients out of It a trancelike n I snout administer medicines and amI amIo o neither of which patients know now the they were taking v o o. o victims of lei lethargic ena In- In 10 a he new disease which has d t widely scattered portions ted fed States first in Chicago to hundreds of physicians are areg areg g cry II person for signs or of to III een sleep l hit Dill Robertson Chicago r has haf begun a evs- evs n to find out what h ew e And how best It i mated t fed I PATIENTS RECOVER i a he both children have been j l e. e Other r patients have reme remo re- re mo me after remaining In n. n or or ays j ha tie tle attacks both young and gr and white rich and poor and the underfed ll into the th sleep which Isn't sl contagious some doc doc- iet I while others say there Is c for of contagion won were ware In that deathlike I Il l the Cook Coole county hospital physician permitted n. n Salt sl gram photographer to takee take e of one woman patient with consent because na as ho he night help to fInd the solution cur cure lie Jle thought Iver everybody body le learn about this new disease not be unduly fright fright- Jt t hoUld strIke within their teat Ic patient had been to In ev oral days She lay still as ase e l breathing scarcely face was waIf I have es from flom which life had tied fled or of them fiS as i ithe li the nurse waken the patient r ss to give I e medicine e. e feral X minutes she Rhe shook the taking to her tho while She answer eyes opened she but said ord A twitching muscle was wall wallIe le Ie That hat ended when the nurse h h Ick woman to la lay back her herm hern m n ho he pillow and resume her herno no given sen her the doctor Inne Inns In- In ns ne was bitter but the pAtient It t to trickle down her throat have havo so much tasteless It HI vas as the same with food ee explained evIdently tho 11 ryes are silenced VS INFLUENZA had last fall faU the lid aid This followed S 8 this new disease doctor td see eo Dr Peter Bassoe he Dr Bassoe knows more than any other American t I has written n. n book on and mental diseases In which ease Is exactly defined soe saOe Is III professor of nervous diseases at Hush Medical s i Dr Ba Bassoe soe told me 1 disease It affects t tc cs c all ages I el and colors It i Is s Continued en page pago 2 J Jr p r r is wy M. M I 4 j. j 4 A b i N ENCEPHALITIS patient in Cook county hospital Chicago in 1 coma from which she was aroused to be given medicine Inserted I above is a picture of Dr J. J D D. D Robertson heath health commissioner of Chicago leading the city's campaign to find out how the disease may be headed off before it becomes epidemic I SLEEP DEATH HITS YOUNG AND OLD WHAT IS IT Strange Malady After Recovery From T Influenza r Symptoms of the Sleep of Death Apathy lethargy drowsiness stupor absence of initiative or spontaneity Delusions and hallucinations Slowly rising temperature increasing increasing in- in creasing progressively but ir- ir regularly Stiff neck pains n n the neck Not always noted WHAT TO CALL DO-CALL A DOCTOR d Continued from page 1 not contagious and is not always ta- ta tal Most cases recover The illness may last a few days and instances are known where patients were In a stupor for two months Dont mistake it for the called so-called sleeping sickness sickness' of Africa It Is not caused bY the bite of the tsetse fly There Is a world of difference Encephalitis follows influenza It ItIs Itis Is a winter and spring disease and will probably affect one in ten thousand persons who had Influenza It may attack those who had light attacks s of Influenza as well as those more seriously seriously seri seri- ill It followed influenza here hoere eighteen years ago but was diagnosed I as a form of meningitis In Europe then It was called mona and therE followed influenza epidemics NAMED IN 1917 the Under the name encephalitis disease has been known only since early In 1917 when it appeared in Vienna and the d Austrian physician Von Economo coined the name encephalitis having been impressed by the prominence of lethargy In the cases A similar epidemic opt opt- demic occurred In England and FrancE Francein in the following year year starting in mIdwinter midwinter mId mId- winter and ending in late spring The death rate was highest In England 35 per cent and lowest in Austria less than 5 per dying There Is no reason for American people to be frightened I doubt it if the I spread ot of the disease will be wIde I |
