| Show INFLUENZA CONQUERED news A contributor to the medical record ot of february 23 claims that a remedy lias has now been found for the grip and that consequently those who feel it coming on ought to hasten to con consult stilt a physician and r get cured tho the specific referred to Is gel to tile tincture of the fresh root the fresh plant tincture only I 1 is endowed with medicinal virtue tho the ordinary ordin als fluid preparations of the dry root being quite quito valueless in cases of influenza As the plant is highly poisonous and the disease requires careful dosage any attempt at self administration of the drug would be folly the importance of this announcement if correct Is in the tact fact that tho the epidemic Is no longer beyond tho the reach of medical science the affliction Is known in almost every land in russia they call it chinese catarrh call it the russian pest and in france it Is known as ane italian fever and ae the spanish catarrh cata irh the name influenza comes from italy the arabians wo ive may add used to call it abu au the father of the knees because of its weakening effects upon the tile lower extremities it Is claimed that immunity to patients who have previously suffered farm repeated attacks of influenza Is given by a cautious treatment with arsenic as a prophylactic sometimes the doage of this powerful agent must ho be suspended at intervals for not a few patients become more sen to its action than to the disease but it rarely falls and it conquers the ml int aam we 6 iro are told in more than 94 per cent of cases |
