THE SPANISH INFLUENZA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 46, 19 September 1918, Page 8

THE SPANISH INFLUENZA.

SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT. BED AND QUININE. Doctors assert that the current influenza epidemic in Sydney is not the Spanish imxwrtaiion, but something different. •To the victim it probably seems a little worse, though the raed'icine man who hasn't contracted it yet is inclined to think it isn't. According to a recent number of the London "Times," the malady spread through Spain with surprising rapidity. Then it reached London. In 1889-90 it w'a s the Russian influenza. In this year it is the same complaint, though in 1889-90 it took a more violent form. Three mares between sleeping and waking leaves the patient a stone lighter in weight and utterly incapable of mental or physical exertion. A month passes before life seems really worth living again. a

It is ..suggested that the epidemic in London has been shorn of, its terrors by the sufferer going at once to bed with a hot-water bottle. "The Times" adds that bed and quinine make the best and most' expeditious cure, The attempt to fight even the mildest form of the epidemic will prove disastrous in the end, especially for those on the slippery descent of middle-age. Quinine is probably the best preventive, but some physicians are of opinion that the avoidance of crowded places is the only sure means of avoiding infection.