| Show A FATAL DISEASE some of tile tiie california papers have accounts of a prevalent and fatal disease at deer Creek Tehama county in that late state bate which has baffled the physicians ceans and spread terror among tile the residents lesi lesl dents the disease it is represented d commences with a chill which is succeeded by a fever after which follow spasms and convulsions which throw the tile patient into a stupor from which lie never recovers one paper states that tile the disease is only a malignant type of chills and fever and tid rid that it is no mystery to competent physicians 11 sic BIC however a jiember of deaths are reported from it ibs its attacks the san francisco chronicle states that dr of red bed bluff thinks the disease is as meningitis is the tile offspring of mia miasma sina and is confined to the tile low miasmatic portion of deer creek and that persons sub sud ering cring from chills and fever and those generally in a low state of health are predisposed to meningitis itis children generally are affected y it few lew adults being attacked tile the symptoms are first chills succeeded by fever accompanied by rigor rigor of extremities and turning i back of head but there is no facial contortion and the tiie abdominal i muscles in no case have been iiii implicated Str idius of glottis and thorax occurs generally with the first appe appt appearance arance of or convulsion lynip |
