Show GRIP ABROAD IN THE LAND grip old russian grip is again on a tour of the country carrying backaches headaches and prostration into the homes of our people there s no discriminating the mansions of the wealthy and the cottages of the poor being alike the recipients of attention from new york to san francisco the people are sneezing and coughing in recognition of the visitor and some are to be carried away to the grave because of the wanderer this is not grips llast peregrination of the land the visits having been so frequent and the acquaintance so intimate of late years that the people have americanized the name and no longer accord to the foreigner the dignified title of la grippe yet the overwhelming influence of the dread cera ture has lost no potency be cauce of the difference in title though the people of ogden have escaped with slight attention so tar there Is promise that they are not to be neglected therefore it is well to prepare for the coming of grip so that all will know the intruding foreigner when met the standard reproduces this paragraph from a medical journal among children grip may appear under one of three forms the nervous as in the epidemic of 1889 90 characterized by great depression and severe pains in the head spinal region and muscles the catarrhal form marked by and tendency to congestion the gastric type the one most commonly seen in childhood marked by symptoms of gastric intestinal disturbance these three forms have been observed in the child ren 0 one household under one roof the invasion Is typically sudden often accompanied by vertigo and nausea and sometimes actual vomiting of all ous matter there are pains in the limbs and a general aching all over with nearly always pains in the eye balls and frontal headache some cases present cold others actual delirium with intense bodily weakness the cough is usually worse at night and toward early morning there may be wheezing and bloodstained expectoration pulmonary susceptibility is particularly apparent there are often eruptions that are very puzzling grip in children may appear at first to be pneumonia scarlet fever meningitis or measles an even temperature pera ture during the entire twenty four hours Is recommended and a diet of strong booths broths meat essences milk etc alcoholic stimulants are not thought to be necessary during the first stage of fever but when it subsides the pulse is weak and stimulants may be needed |