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Show The evolution of new diseases is something that the medical faculty have never fully explained. Somewhat Some-what more than thirty years ago, poo-plo, poo-plo, old and young, wore attacked by an unfamiliar and dread malady which sent them to their graves in appalling numbers. Nobody knew what to call it nor how to treat it . Experiments were tried and learned discussions hud, but the destroyer stalked across the country leaving grief and desolation behind him. Since that time this disease dis-ease has always boen with us in more or less malignant form, and we now know it ad diphtheria. Last year there came something that we called the grip. Those who did not suffer from it laughed in an incredulous fashion, and insinuated that it was nothing more than a particularly severe type of cold. But after the epidemic had passed, we heard of scores of cases of insanity, consumption and other ailments, ail-ments, mental and physical, that were directly attributed to the visitation. This year it came to us again, not so generally, but, if possible, with increased in-creased severity. Many of those who had not yet recovered from the shock of last year's attack were again prostrated, pros-trated, and a terrible death rate was Ihe result. It is no laughing matter, and we can only hope that it has not lome to stay as did diphtheria. i |