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Show Tub evolution of new diseases is something that tho medical faculty have never fully explained. Somewhat Some-what more than thirty years ago, peo- . pie, old and young, were attacked by an unfamiliar and dread malady which 1 sent them to their graves in appalling ' numbers. Nobody knew what to call I it nor how to treat it Experiments were tried and learned discussions had, i but the destroyer stalked across the country leaving grief and desolation i behind him. Since that time this dis- J ease has always been with us in more ' or less malignant form, and we now know it as 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 typo of cold. But after the epidemic had I passed, we heard of scores of cases of ' insanity, consumption and other ail- ments, mental and physical, that were directly attributed to the visitation. I 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 the result. It is no laughing matter. nd we can only hope that it has not lome to stay as did diphtheria. |