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Grippe

noun
1.
An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.  Synonyms: flu, influenza.






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"Grippe" Quotes from Famous Books



... calling in a physician and having him prescribe exactly what you need for typhoid, grippe, nervous trouble, rheumatism or other sickness, is a hundred times more likely to give you relief than if you go to a drug-store for ...
— Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured • Chas. Cluthe & Sons

... body through the skin or mucous lining. The common cold is believed to enter by the nose. We may avoid exposure to infection from grippe and common colds by keeping away from congested public places when there is an epidemic of grippe or colds, or when we are ourselves fatigued or for any ...
— How to Live - Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science • Irving Fisher and Eugene Fisk

... by the work of the year and an attack of the grippe, was sent by a woman in one of the churches, to a girl's camp. She lived in decent fashion, she saw a lake, great mountains, sunsets and stars! She found flowers and sat quite still watching birds that seemed ...
— The Girl and Her Religion • Margaret Slattery

... to tell its own story. It seems to mean restriction, subjection, slavery. It certainly spells lack of freedom. I have seen many boys and girls who seemed afflicted with arithmetical, grammatical, and geographical grippe, and I have sought to free them from its tyranny and lead them forth into the sunlight and pure air of freedom. If I only knew just how to do this effectively I think I'd be quite reconciled to the work ...
— Reveries of a Schoolmaster • Francis B. Pearson

... by the track we had made. Bocoyna is a corruption of the Tarahumare Ocoina (oco pine; ina drips; meaning Dripping Pine, or Turpentine). Here I had to stop for two days, because no less than six of us, including myself, were suffering from the grippe, which a piercing, dry, cold wind did not tend to alleviate. However, as the worst cases did not last more than five days, we soon were all well again, though the Mexicans were almost overcome by the effects of ...
— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz



Words linked to "Grippe" :   respiratory disease, respiratory illness, swine influenza, swine flu, flu, influenza, contagious disease, Asian influenza, contagion, respiratory disorder, Asiatic flu



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