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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1918-12-19, Page 4lIPMPPIler 4-1 11118DAV, D ISM hI� alba THE .SIGNAL MIA .41a•. GODERIOH, ONT. EXPLAINING THE "FLU" MEDICAL MF:N Altai VERS' BUSY MAKING Gt'F:seEs. One Alarming Sugae tk.n 1. 10 the Effect That the Spanish Influenza May Be Nothing Lees Than the Malign:le• Pneumonic Plague Which Has Ravaged china Inter. mlttently In Recent fears. IN an article in the Medical Re- cord, of Nev. York. Dr. Joienh King, now a captain in the C. S. Medical Corps. makes the alarm- ing suggestion that the epidemic which we call the Spanish influenza may be nothing less than the mane - 'ant pneunronlr plaeue which hits vaged China Intermittently foraev- eral years pass. This theory h is been discussed by medical sten, and we a glad to say that the con- sensus pears to be against it. That it is no ing but the grippe Is the verdict of Director Blue of the U. S. Medical Service. but his view Is not wholly satlalactory to doctors who have been used for years past to treating grippe patients, but not used to find them develop pneumonia and die In a few hours. The Russian in- fluenza of some 20 years ago was as widespread as the present epidemic, hut, if memory serves, It did not ac- count for anything like a proportion- ate number of deaths. We have had reports that the species gertu has been isolated. but no authoritative statement as to the exact character of It. and In this condition of doubt 11 is only natural that various theo- ries Jhould be put forward. Dr.‘King says that his attention was called to the similarity- of the "flu" epiderr!e and the pneumonic plague by an authority upon Chinese affairs, and that further t•xantination disclosed aumrient points of resem- blance to warrant him in making the suggestion that the diaeai.ea are traceable to the same source. In 1910. the pneumonic plague'appeered in Harbin. Manchuria, which was the original hotbed of the disease. Earlier in the year 1t had appeared In Rus- sia, but the Russians. alive to its menace. took immediate action and stamped it 0111. It reached Harbin. It is supposed. through the agency of Chinese laborers' and fur.dealers returning to their homes to celebrate their New t'ear's day. and owing ;n the crowded condition of the city it snrend with great rapidity. From Harbin It reached out In all direc- tions, uanally following the railroads and other routee of travel. It went as far south as Chefoo, a seaport town, prebabl- having been carried there by Chinese coolies. By- Jan. 24, 1911 no fewer than 1,1.00 Chinere and 27 Europeans, two of them medi- cal men and one an. : latent, hall died of it. Ur King said that the mortality was a;:eoat 100 per cent. Since that time China has not been wholly free from It, although it han not raged so furiously as on las ap- pearance. and he believes that it is from China, and through the medium of the 200.000 or more Chinese la- borers who have been doing work on the western front that it has reached Europe and America. Many of these laborers went by way- of the Medi- terranean, and others through Can-, ada and the I'nited States. At This ; point there appears a slight hiatus In Dr. Klu;'a theory. it Is not on ' record that there was any Infinenra In either Canada or the United States when the Chinese coolies were pass- ing through or immediately after. Nor have we beard of it breaking out among the Allied anldiers behind whose lines the Chinese were work - Ing. The disease first appeared, POI far as we know, in the German army, and the theary is that it was con- veyed by the coolies. some of whom , are assumed to have been captured i by the Germane in their great spring • drive. "Hence," nays the writer, "the outbreak of it In the German army and Its rapid spread in Spain." The "hence" does not explain how Chi- nese coolies, the prisoners of the Germans. -communicated the disease to Spain, although undoubtedly this present epidemic first attracted gen- eral attention In Spain. as its name proves. Dr. King compares the two dis- eases, both clinically and from a bacteriological standpoint. In the Chinese epidemic there are few defi- nite symptoms at the outset except the general malaise. prostration and Toss of appetite, soon to be followed by the pneumonic process and death. In the present epidemic there are Indefinite symptoms which generally correspond to the aforementioned, but whereas In China, according to Dr. King. nearly all the sufferers died, there has been no such percent- age of deaths attending the "flu," although, as he says, It la more ron- tagmue, Is followed more frequently by pneumonia, and is attended by a higher mortality than In any pre- y/Iona influenza epidenile. In the pneumonic plague the bacillus pestle was found almost constantly associat- ed with pneumococcus and the strep- tococcus. In the present epidemic -the Influenza bacillus has been found as- sociated with the four grouts of pnl•umncoeel, the etreptocorcus keine,- Omaniand the microeoeeur catarrh-. all:: and other bad germs. Dr. King says that the Influent barl'lu■ and the bacillus pestis• In typical forms may simulate each other, for organisms may assume dlf. felent forme and leave dlflerent cul - tut d characteristics in different cnn- dltinns. His theory, mistiming that the two epidemics are the name. Is ths.t'the hadn't* pestle may have been pr./tent in a non -virulent state In the Chinenr eohlles and assumed new vl,.ar, v irulenre and a somewhat dif- ferent form when transplanted Into vlrgib soli. Thea he explains the epl- demfra that have so frequently fol- lowed great wars. 'If a nation or tribe ran nurvive any disease long enorbth It will acquire Immunity to the disease. FREEDOM ON WIIEI!T.B. Fascinating Story of Belgian News. paper That Can't 11e Suppressed. Ransack the whole record of the "clandestine press" trying to serve liberty In an atmosphere of despot- ism, and you will find no better ex- ample of Its elusiveness and vitality than tete little sheet which, despite all efforts to suppress It, Is s11 hold - Ing its own in war -devastate tyrant- eursed Belgium. Free speech, whe- ther of voice or pen, that country has never had since the coming of the usurper. Many of its newspapers have been suppressed outright; the rest, harassed by fines and prison sentences. live on to -day in a eon- dltlon of unmitigated vassalage. But the people continue to find their "Ir- regular" organ of opinion In the Libre Belgique. even though 1t is as much as the citizen's liberty 1s worth •for him to be found reading a copy of that production. Founded about three years ago. Free Belgium has already played an Important part in keeping the home fires of patriotism aglow and In send- . Ing abroad news which the Hun cen- sor has made taboo—the secret pro- eeedings of the Germanized courts. • eases of tyranny within prison walls and many poignant details of shoot- ings and executions. Belgians gather privately all through the occupied territory to read the latest issue; the very officers, who scour the country to discover tit! culprits, receive the prohibited sheet; the German gover- noetgeneral himself Is honored regu- larly with free copies. Where Is the Libre Belgique pub- lished. how and where is It printed. who are the business manager, the editor and the contributors' The combined science, method, ingenuity and skill of the whole German forces of occupation have thus far failed to answer any one of these questions, and nothing better illustrates the fu- tility of their campaign against the paper than the attempt which has Just been made to strike terror into all who have written or are likely to write for It. Three•men were arrested on an information charging one with heing the manager of Libre Belgique. fhe other two with having supplied him with articles for publi- cation. It took the military court three months to make up Its mind.and the decision has committed all three accused to a German prison for long terms. A Hague newspaper asserts that the punishment *as meted 011 "on sit epiclon" only, there being no evt- denee to justify a conviction. The trial brought out a mase of other sn1•piclons, but the judges gained no new information as to the Libre Bel- gique's printing once and had to fall back on "the popular belief that the newspaper is printed on an automo- bile, which moves from plare to place." D was thus made evident that even in Belgium. under German rule, "the resources of civilization are not yet exhausted."—Boston Herald. The Novel In Ancient Egypt. The novel has existed In one shape or another. from the earliest perlol of which history has preserved the record. By the novel I menn ficti- tious narrative In prose or verse; and when the art of writing was still un- known, the spoken took the place of the written. Bard.. rhapsodists. scalds. troubadours, ballad singers, lmprovlsatorl have at different times ministered, and, In part, do yet wile - biter. to thle innate craving for lie - 'Non among the classes which are never reached by literature In the strictest sense. Whether there have been found cuneiform novels on the sun -baked bricks of Babylon and Nin- eveh I do net know; but the frag- ments of mythological poems which Ware been discovered suffice to show that the cuneiform equivalent for a novelist was not wanting. As for ,the Egyptians, their Ingeniously ela- rate style of writing must have been a sad restraint upon the hlero- glephic novelist, when he was inclin- ed to be prolific; and that may be one of the reasons why no hiero- glyphic novels have been unearthed in temples of pyramids. The king had apparently (If we may Judge by the extravagant fictions concerning himself and his deeds whit h he In- scribed upon the public monuments). a monopoly on novel writing, as nn everything else that was pleasant and profitable. The priests worked out his plots In prose and verse, and sup- plied heroic embellishments ad Ilbi- tum.—H. H. Boyesen. Regina'a City Farm. oer Regina pated a city form thea year on which 5,190 bunhets of wheat awl 1,600 bushels of mete sen reiand- 44z4 YFirst Airplane Accident. The first man to lose his life In an Irplane accident was Lieut. T. H. r'lleltrldge, of the United States slgnai corps, who was killed In Septetnber, 1901. while flying as a passenger with Orville Wright at Ft. Myer, Va. The !next fatal airplane accident occurred a year later In F -ranee, when Eugene Lefebvre was enrolled AS one of the martyrs to the conquest of the air. Since the outbreak of the war, of course. brave flyers without number have given their lives lo their re- spective countries, and a list of them would fill pages. The first wornan to ' he killed in an airplane ncrident was Mine. D. Mooro, who lost her life al Etanips, France. In 1911. Was Trill) Modern. Willie, the office boy, who Is get- ting five a week, and in convinced that he 1. within the category of "employes essential to the success of the enterprise," caked the boas last weak to raise his stipend to seven - fifty. "Why, Willie," the potentate Mmewhat pompously replied, un- blushingly tieing the old stuff once More, "when 1 was your age 1 work- ed for half what you're getting now." "As, come on hugs," rnuntered Wil- lie. "All l want la the faint.; I ain't 100ttmn' for no Lesson In early hie- •" i.Ikely Explanation. A ' nung titan recently rams to a doctor and has complaint was a rath- er extraordinary one. He had seen a Nitwit. The doctor asked him where he had [teen It and whnt it was Ilke. "1 eaw It," said he, "the other night when 1 was pasnlag a graveyard; It had a Mg mouth and long ears like a donkey." "Go home," said the doc- tor, and say nothing about it; It was your own shadow you saw." ) VA o' / r\r"r< ('t-1 1 1i 1♦ 11MI S TWO STORES 1•fflf/�■ Chrtstruns Gtft. 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