ï~~OMEOPATHY NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HOMEOPATHY 927 'Virtually, its essence is but How so learned a man as e to understand. Osteopathy which is in reality the least o the conception of the great e ever made the least investiord of such eminent teachers no further investigation. I been a patient of mine two.n my chest never came back evere pain in the upper part the heart. It had been very ny remedies had failed to do ept that it was a pain, often neuralgic or rheumatic. One 3s not returned. No rubbing, vertebra. I don't like to call 3rd in this relation; but that ieir nomenclature, so we have ' But what is the differenceo he work. moving," a ''clicking'' or a oise just like the cracking of e temporary separation of the osteopaths sometimes claim. just so it does what we want, relieves a pressure which has the nerve. The rubbing and [t feels good, and is good for way. Besides, it flushes the congestion and inflammation e osteopathy did what neither 'red severely for a year or so f the four doctors who had of them had recommended an mneer of the stomach and for t were accompanied quite confound her at her home, naugave her no medicine, no rub'' I ''moved" the fifth, sixth said she felt better. The next I gave her a few more treatall that was necessary to cure.ing with extreme jaundice of vomit on an average of every ly, not to return, by the first skill had failed to help he. if V. DIETETICS, HYGIENE, SANITATION, CLIMATOLOGY, ACUTE INFECTIOUS DISEASES, STATE MEDICINE. The weekly government report of the influenza epidemic throughout the United States gives the mortality in the principal cities. We give a record of the mortality in seven of the larger cities: Deaths from Influenza During Week Ending Sept. 14, 21, 28. Oct. 5, 12. Baltimore.................. 30 192 Boston..............19 172 600 991 850 Chicago................ 17 171 571 New York................. 299 979 Philadelphia..................399 1,697 Deaths from Pneumonia (all forms) During Week Ending Sept. 14, 21, 28. Oct. 5, 12. 7 6 19 87 371 27 93 175 225 177 15 24 74 246 476 74 98 145 434 1,642 20 32 76 307 938 St. Louis..................... 40 12 13 20 25 46 Washington, D. C........ 12 116 387 10... 17 57 101 "SPANISH INFLUENZA" -"THREE DAY FEVER"- "THE FLU" What is Spanish Influenza? Is it something new? Does it come from Spain? United States Public Health Service in Supplement No. 34 to the Public Health Reports, dated Sept. 28, 1918, answers this and other questions under the general caption alone: The disease now occurring in this country and called ''Spanish Influenza" resembles a very contagious kind of "cold" accompanied by fever, pains in the head, eyes, ears, back or other parts of the body, and a feeling of severe sickness. In most of the cases the symptoms disappear after three or four days, the patient then rapidly recovering; some of the patients, however, develop pneumonia, or inflammation of the ear, or meningitis, and many of these complicated cases die. Whether this so-called ''Spanish'' influenza is identical with the epidemics of influenza of earlier years is not yet known. Epidemics of influenza have visited this country since 1647. It is interesting to know that this first epidemic was brought here from Valencia, Spain. Since that time there have been numerous epidemics of the disease. In 1889 and 1890 an epidemic of influenza, starting somewhere in the Orient, spread first to Russia, and thence over practically the entire civilized world. Three years later there was another flare-up of the disease. Both times the epidemic spread widely over the United States. Although the present epidemic is called ''Spanish influenza," there is no reason to believe that it originated in Spain. Some writers who have studied the question believe that the epidemic came from the Orient and they call attention to the fact that the Germans mention the disease as occurring along the eastern front in the summer and fall of 1917. How can "Spanish influenza" be recognized? There is as yet no certain way in which a single case of "Spanish influenza' can be recognized; on the other hand, recognition is easy where there is a group of cases. In contrast to the outbreaks of ordinary coughs and colds, which usually occur in the cold months, epidemics of influenza may occur at any season of the year, thus the present epidemic raged most intensely in Europe in May, June and July. Moreover, in the case of ordinary colds, the general symptoms (fever, pain, depression) are by no means as severe or as sudden in their onset as they are in influenza. Finally, ordinary colds do not spread through the community so rapidly or so extensively as does influenza. 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 complain of feeling chilly, and with this comes a fever in which the temperature rises to 100 to 104. In most cases the pulse remains relatively slow. r-.: FfF6'( # # S' ws