THE EPIDEMIC.—DID I HAVE IT?

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 596, 23 August 1913, Page 5

THE EPIDEMIC.—DID I HAVE IT?

The Editor. Sir.—About a fortnight ago I had iusines3 to do in Te Awamutu, and went there and back to Te Kuiti in a dirty smoking carriage. A day or two afterwards I began to feel seedy, and then my head began to ache and I felt a bit sick. About the eighth day a few itchy spots came oat on my head and neck. I thought I had got it, and intended tc make tracks out to the doctor in the morning. However, that night I read Dr Hurst's opinion in the Auckland Weekly of tha epidemic, so I took some salts and a few drops of eucalyptus. In the morning the spois had gone, but by night they had corns out all over my shoulders and body, so I took more salts arid eucalyptus. In the morning there wa; no sign of them, but they returned ir. full force tha next night from head _'oot—red lumps with white .ie_ I took more of the same medicine. I got up intending to go to the doctor, but there was not a sign'of a pimple so I went to work instead, and have not found an itch since. Did I have it?—l am, etc., PUZZLED. (Some people have had even worse attacks than that described by our cor- j respondent, after a visit to Te Awamutu. The question usually asked is not "Did I have ifI"—Ed. l "—Ed. K.C.C.)