INFLUENZA. ISN'T COLD. POPULAR FALLACY EXPOSED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2529, 3 September 1902, Page 59

INFLUENZA. ISN'T COLD. POPULAR FALLACY EXPOSED.

It has been a popular idea for a "longj time that influenza, is only anoiher name for a cold. Careful study on the part of the doctors,- however, has made it. olear - that influenza is really an epidemio fever thafc iB caused or rather attended by a cold. The truth of this theory has been shown by n> local case of considerablo interest to physicians.

As far back as seven years ago a certain farmer of Hawke's Bay caught a. very bad cold. There was a touoh of congestion in his lungs, and then influenza attacked him.' in his weakened condition. His symptoms were noted by the local medical men with much interest. There was, of course, the heavy, drowsy feeling, the lose of appetite, the headaches, and the rheumatic pains in the back and limbs. Tho patient was in a, high fever, but was despondent.' He thought; he would never get better. It actually began to look that way, for bronchitis set? in, and then asthma. He had great difficulty in breathing. His hands and feet grew icy cold, and > death-like pallor came over him. Other complications developed quickly, and the case became' exceedingly intresting from a medical point of view.i The usual medical treatment was followed, but instead of improving the man grew worse. Indeed, he remained an invalid until 1 he purified and enriched his blood with the N.Z. form of Dr Williams' pink pills made in Wellington. They struck at tho root jpf his whole trouble, for by building up hi? blood supply they made him strong and well again. It took* over a dozen boxes to restoro him to perfect health, but ho considers the money well spent and the cure a cheap one.

The influenza, bronchitis, and asthma had made him' co thin and weak that many oi his .friends when they saw him about again could hardly believe that tho improvement was due to these pills. There is. however, not tho slightest doubt about it. The words of his family and neighbours in tho Hawke'a Bay district bear out his own statements. Dr Williams' pink pills made in Wellington cured him because they removed from liia blood every trace of impurity. They filled his veins with healthy, rich, red corpuscles. They toned up his nerves, and strengthened his ppine as well. The new blood built up his tissues and muscles, and made every organ in his body do its work properly. This is the reason why Dr Williams' piuk pills, if they are the kind made in Wellington, cure so many different diseases in New Zealand. Nearly all tho diseases eorrimon in these islands arise from impure blood and unstrung nerves — such diseases, for example, as headaches, anasmia, weariness, indigestion, nervousness, neuralgia, rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, paralyei*, decline, skin troubles, and kidney or liver complaints. To women especially these pills are invaluable at all times of life. But you must be sure that you get tho genuine N.Z. form, made from a special formula suited to this climate. It has the full addrefw. Wellington New Zealand, printed in red on the pink outside wrapper. Spanish or American substitutes have never cured «' single case in the whole of this colony. Avoid them, and all pink pills put up in small bottles. Insist on getting the genuinp kind that cured Henry Harrison, of Church road, Hawke» Bay — for that is tlie name of the farmer whose interesting case ha* been reported above. — Advt.

— According to Dr York, offspring alwayt take the complexion from the father. Honee, if the father of a negro baby has any white blood in his veins, the child afl birth will be nearly as white as a Caucasian, On the other hand, the child of a white, mother and a black father will, after a month's time, be nearly as black as th« full-blsoded negro.