Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-24
HOW DO YOU SNEEZE?
An Expert on Influenza Expatiates
lnstructively Thereon.
AN EPIDEMIC THAT is SPORADIC.
Here Are ALI the symptoms: Have You
Got Emp
RELIABLE PAEACEA is GIVEN.

Dr. Byron Clark, A. NJ, M. D., Professor
of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the
Eclectic College of the City of New York,
and an expert on influenza, is at the Sew
enth Avenue Hotel.
The doctor is disiinguished-looking gem
tleman of the old school. He wears high
hat of the crush order, suit of broadcloth,
with the coat cut la cutaway, and collar
several inches in height. He is portly-
looking gentleman, and when at home lives
at No. 107 West Ninety-eighth street,
New York City. Two or three times year he
visits the larger cities throughout the country
and treats persons suffering from chronic dis
eases. He has not visited Pittsburg for nearly
a year, but while here yesterday called upon
about 20 patients. While on trip throughout
the country his son, Homer 1. Clark, teacher
of physical diagnosis in the same college, taxes
the place of his father as Professor OF Theory
and Practice.
WHAT THE VISIT REVEALED.
DR.. Clark was encountered in the corridor OF
the hotel last evening by DISPATCH repre-
sentative. When asked what he had been
doing in Pittsburg he said:
"Just come up to my room, young man, and
will show you what have been doing. have
visited about 20 patients to-day and prescribed
for as many more. who are suffering from
chronic diseases"
The interior of the DOCTORS room might be
aptly described as being en- dishabille. Pack.
ages Of medicine, opened and unopened, we're
scattered all about the room.
To give you some idea OF what meoical
practice may amount to- will show you this,
SAID the doctor, as he opened Journal and ex-
hibited the names and the number Of persons
to whom he had prescribed since the 9th OF
last March until December 2a The whole
number aggregated {, 703, or an average of 10
per day, excepting, Of course, the days on
which he lectured.
"Now about this influenza which has spread
over Europe, said the Doctor. 1t is not new by
any means We have it constantly in our
midst but at periods Of every few years It
goes like whirlwind over the country. It Is
very young and the aged. 1t is carried from
place to place by bacteria, and / do not doubt
but that in few weeks it will be
ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY.
''If you newspaper men do not scare the peo-
pie into taking it I do not anticipate any seri-
Gus trouble. Here is book which consider T
among the highest authorities 1t was pub
lished in 1887 by E. G. Hughes. late demonstra-
tor of clinical medicine in the Jefferson Medi-
cal College of Philadelphia. 1t is entitled
Hughes Compend of Practice" in which he
describes the symptoms OF the influenza as fol-
lows:
The onset is sudden, with chill, followed by
fever, the temperature. reaching 100 to 1859, 3
pains In the eyes frontal sinuses joints and
muscles. The chill and fever is rapidly followed
by chilliness along the spine, with pains in the
throat or noarseness, deafness, coryza, sneezing,
watery eyes, and a very irritating cough, some
times becoming bronchial. The tongue is furred,
there is anorexia, epigastric distress, nausea,
vomiting, and often diarrhoa.
'fThe Complications are often lobar or catar.
rhal pneumonia, which add to the gravity of the
attack. The cough may outlast the disease
several weeks.
THE following is given as panacea for the
trouble: Quinine, to grains; Morphia, liz of
to six hours.
''That is one of the best prescriptions know
Of" said the doctor "and ! would recommend it
to all who are seeking relief from the scourge.
If such it may be called. There is very little
serious danger to be apprehended although it
may result seriously to persons who are af-
hicted with catarrh or asthma