WHAT CAUSED LA GRIPPE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2046, 15 May 1890, Page 3

WHAT CAUSED LA GRIPPE.

To begin with, I will say I did not have la grippe, which, in its orthodox course began with headache, aud went on with pains in all toe bones, fever, and great loss of strength. However, I saw hundreds of cases like this. I saw a strong German waiter, who was sober and well conducted, fall down behind tbe chairs at breakfast, overcome with the first symptom, which was weakness of the legs. I saw two young people, just arrived from England, struck down with headache which almost made them delirisus m an hour. And all these got well in a week, after being frightfully ill. In my case the liver was the organ attacked, and a long, serious, three weeks' illness it was, but I believe it was the same poison in the air. I have a theory which I wish to air, as we all wish to air our theories (I do not know that I have a monopoly of it,) which is that this poison, which has gone all over the world, was hatched here in Paris, at the great exposition. The crowd, the contact, the ignoring of the first principles of ventilation and of drainage, which everyone observed in Paris, I believe, originated these fatal microbes, which were carried away by the millions who left Paris for their h«mes. They had time to work in Russia, in Greece, in America, and in Australia, whence we heard of the disease all about the same time. I believe that it has been more universal, and more fatal in Paris than anywhere else, and that the air here is still heavily charged with it. It attacks every organ of the body. It is difficult to shake it off. People are leaving for Nice in shoals, where it is said that they recover. What illustrious victims it has chosen everywhere, and, oh ! > the sufferings of the poor. Who can measure them?— Paris correspondent Boston Traveller.