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Show !G0 TD BED , IE . IE! ATTACKED I YOli I I BY ILH Perhaps a great many people will realize the seriousness of the doctor's orders to go to bed when they begin to suffer from the "flu" if they reflect upon this well accredited fact of medlcal science. The "flu" germ is a little brother of tho "pneumonia" germ and his function in activity Is to pave the way for his big brother's entrance. Many people being, attacked with "flu" remark, "It's only cold," and neglect to take the matter seriously. If they would but recognize that to go to bed at once is the highest wisdom there wonld be very few, or no serious cases to report. The following instructions from a U. S. government pamphlet on the trouble give clearly enough the indications of the beginning of this disease: "In most cases a person taken sick with influenza feels sick rather suddenly. He feels weak, has pains in the eyes, ears, head or back, and may be sore all over. Many patients feel dizzy, some vomit. Most of the patients com-plaih of feeling chilly, and with this comes a fever in which the temperature rises to 100 to 104. In most case? the pulse remains relatively slow. MIn appearance one Is struck by the fact that the patient looks sick. His eyes and the inner side of his eyelids may be slightly "blood -shot," or "con-gested," as the doctors say. There may be running from the nose, or there may be some cough. These signs of a cold may not be marked; nevertheless the patient looks and feels very sick, "In addition to the appearance and the symptoms as already described, examination of the patient's blood may in recognizing aid the physician "Spanish influenza," for it has been found that in tills disease the num-ber of white corpuscles shows little or no increase above the normal. It is possible that the laboratory investiga-tions now being made through the Na-tlonal Research council and tho United States hygienic laboratory will furnish a more certain way in which Individ-ual cases of this disease can be recog- jH iH jH jH .H lfl jH jfl ' lmmm ! IH iH H .IH |
