| Show the grip the following by an oden ogden physician will doubty ss prove of interest this peculiar epidemic before which the medical science stands almost helpless is by no means a new as ever everybody y b 0 dy thought when it appeared in S sweden w e d n it was observed as early aa as in the a sixteenth century it appeared several times during the eighteenth century most severely in 1781 82 when it started in louesia and from there extended its ravages almost over the whole world in the nineteenth cent century u ry it has shown itself more pronounced and more extensively 1809 1831 and 1836 1826 less eo so in in 1851 1857 and 1873 74 a very palpable reason why the physicians of our genera elon eion thought they had to deal wilh with a brand new disease when they mot met it a couple of years ago in RR very severest form for this country the symptoms of in inna duenzL enz are at least at the start so little apprehensive that most people even the have made very little ot of it but bat experience has taught na ua differently it ia Is accompanied bv by a host of complications which k kill ill thousands and thousands ape specially bally frail onea ones now we know k 0 w that it is contagious most remark remarkable able is it that it attacks those who have outdoor work statistics chow show that the per is greater in III the country 65 per cent than in the city 53 68 per cent child ren and old people who mostly live indoors escape it generally gracent di discoveries 1 I co veries veries have revealed tho the bacteria peculiar to this epidemic and by a and d by we mil will have me means in our possession by which these b bacteria ac teria will ba be ly overcome we hava encouraging proofs tor for this ebeo theory ry we take for example smallpox rabies and cholera they willston will soon ba be extinct when met with now they are easily checkmated check mated A few decades ago they clayed dayed havoc limitless at heir their own pleasure |
