What The London Times Says About Influenza.

Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 23

What The London Times Says About Influenza.

At the commencement of this year, when influenza was reaching its height and assuming very serious. proportions in London, The Times had the following .in its. columns. We quote this, as it is written by an authority whose words carry weight, and who gets to the real secret of the prevention of .influenza : — , "Influenza has so far baffled research; we know, however, that it is highly contagious, its onset in sudden, aoad that the besfc thing we can do to c.scape it is to avoid whatever may tend to lower the tone of the system."

This is the root of the matter. Influenza attacks those who, by lack of vigour" and tone in the system, have left a loophole for its entrance. The main thing, then, is to keep in good health whilst this scourge is so prevalent. This can only be done by keeping up the general tone of the system, and so enable the various organs to carry out their respective duties, the tendency to catch coldE and influenza being thereby greatly minimised, i The body is extremely susceptible to chills, and the slightest draught cause 3 a violent attack of coughing or sneezing. • Many socalled cures for influenza fail to get at ths root of the trouble, and only afford temporary relief. A medicine tlia.6 will brace up the system, keep the liver in thorough and regular working order, and the digestion right, will, without doubt, prove the most effective preventive and cure for influenza, and colds. This is what Bile Beans for Biliousness will do, and we maintain that no better remedy can be found for these ailments. Bile Beans have been proved in hundreds of cases to be .the most effective known remedy in dealing with influenza, colds, and all ailments arising from such complaints.

The Rev. Henry J. Fletcher, of the Presbyterian Maori Mission, who is stationed in the Taupo district, says the spread of Christianity "amongst the Maoris in the" interior is slow. Miss E. J. Gardiner, who has been appointed sixth assistant in the George street School, was presented with a handsome gold brooch and a gold watch chain on Friday on severing her connection with the North School, Oamaru!