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WHAT IS THE INFLUENZA?The remarkable tiling about tins Influenza scourge is that irn one knows anything about it. Whether it is a germ, a seriesof germs or .just spontaneous combustion no one can tell.At anv rati*, people are getting it that have never been ex-a nies to anvNearly every fall, about this time, just when the last days of summer begin to meander into the cold chilly days of fall and winter, along comes Mr. Germ either of measles, diphtheria, small pox, scarlet fever or influenza, and begins to gather in thevictims one bv one.The astute members of the A. M. A. (members e a I Association) get out th e i rjr 1 j h 111, i • 11 11 it 11 11 n I 1' **r red or vc, serums and other nos-* contagion flag is evervone is searedr out, wit to a frazzle.This year we have the Spanish Influenza with us, making familiar overtures to our families, with the result that pretty nearly every one has the disease, no matter whether it’* influenza, small-pox, measles, nettle-rash, hives, heaves, hiccoughs or anything else.The deductions raised by men liters of have been somewhat a. in using:. A medical practitioner, Dr. Hutchinson, not in harmony with the medical profession in general, comes out with the statement that pratically no knownmedicine will cure the disease, and that the onlv method is its»curtailment is the use of the mask as means of prevention. Or in other words there is no specific for the disease. Then along comes the learned fraternity of the Rockefeller Institute, an institution t is not out for the purpose of making doll firs and cents hut the alleviation of the suffering of mankind that states that v have at last discovered the elusive germ, but that the little devil will get through ten thicknesses of gauze, and this leads us to say that gauze masks are a fizzle and a fake.Coming down to good old common sense, is it not possible that we ourselves are responsible for the condition prevailing. We fail to heed the warnings of the weather man and we
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Davenport Fountain Head News
Davenport, Iowa, US
Sun, Nov 02, 1919
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