To Avoid La Grippe.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 26 June 1914, Page 2

To Avoid La Grippe.

A great specialist! says : "We really know little more about la grippe (influenza) to-day than we did when it first made its appearance. There is no doubt that it tea distinct disease and should be treated as such, but it has this peculiarity—that it masquerades as any one of a dozen other diseases. It searches out and attacks whatever organ is weakest or most susceptible. A person with a delicate throat will have it in the form of laryngitis or tonsilitis. One with delicate lungs may have it as pneumonia, bronchitis or pleurisy. In other persons it is the kidneys, the stomach or the liver that is attacked. There is one bacillus, the streptococcus, that is always found in la grippe. It is an active bacillus and easily communicated from one person to another. This is why la grippe is so contagious. But, fortunately, the streptococcus perishes quickly v outside the body, and that is why the contagion is easy to avoid. PerBOI3S with la grippe should sleep alone, with open windows ; they should not kiss others, nor should they go into closed apartments where there are crowds. The throat should be gargled and the mouth rinsed with some such wash as this : Four teaspoonfuls of water mixed, with one teaspoonful each of listerine and peroxide of hydrogen."