24-HOUR INFLUENZA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12707, 9 March 1912, Page 7 (Supplement)

24-HOUR INFLUENZA.

WOMEN MOST LIABLE

What might be described as a 'twenty* four hour type of influenza is now interesting the doctors in -and about London. Among the ordinary cases which constitute the present mild influenza epidemic in London, numbers of . attacks have been noted, which, starting with all the "classic 1 ' symptoms, have suddenly abated within' twenty-four or thirty-six houvJ. ■••". :

; A' 'Kensington physician who, in the pasb fortnight'; 'has-- had several of these cases, attributes -them to the earlier and. more drastic treatment ths disease now, commonly receives instead of the. waiting treatment formerly' Adopted." ' "It may Be also," he said, "that the' germ is 'really 'losing '• its virulence. 'A curious point' about ' my twenty-four hour cases** is that tluey have all been women. The secret of the speedy cure, Almost before the attack was fully developed, la.y, I think, in my being able to begin treatment within the first few: hours' of the' ! onsetjjVTw r (5 'o| my. ,;natie,nts' weHo wives of Gity. men- wl}'6bTo\vght the disease hortie frtmj** their ) o'fnce'Sj. "While visiting"' the husband ?>I ;wd6 asked in both' cases "to I '])res l c'riJbe %l - jt h&a'tlache pWdey W, the A^ife. 'yltefcognisiing "the nremoin'tbry' symptoms of itjljs year's in-flueiiKa'i-hbadache,' /slight J d|iilly /Heeling, and '•■ -vague Harris ]f} : ; xlie li^fabs — I pre\ scribed teasppotiJulsld'F'hniinoniaMd tinc- . tiiro of, quinme*"eveVir two hoih^,. until ringing" hi the I 'e^irs 1 began. In both .these cases*' and in- sevefriUothers in<v£wlu*ch early* symptoms might have Heeii'' 4 . put down simply' to aViVon^coming cold', had' influenza not* alrealdv been in the house, the patient has' been 'well by the 1 -next; day.". ..: --. ;: „' -.'.^ ( " x '