The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-05
HAVE YOU HAD THE GRIP?
II NOT, PREPARE FOR IT, as IT Is
SURE I'd COME

the Eastern Cities Wrescl.n< WITH
the Russian Visitor or It's Mid
CouaTer.eit-An IrflIsuza zpidem!c
That Causes a Boom n Qulnine
and Handkerchief, Inflames Eyes
and Noses and Has a comic asp &C..
Leading Physical Is Describe It's
Symptoms - There IS No Esca pc
Either.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4-Have YOU had la
Erippel !. not, don't be in a hurry - b Jast
Of UT immunity, for the Russian visitor
with a French name may shaae hands and
rub noses with YOU any day.
A. the present moment New York is
struggling between a de ire to preserve is
dignity and an resstible impulse % snsezs
its heal of. Every third person you meet
has crushed aspect. They look at you out
Of bleared and watery eyes, q I'd tax with
difficulty and decided subc liar infection
of voice. If q man, he weeps tears Of
anguish as be addresses you on the most
commonplace tonic: if a won m, e
convulse, her featur and burieS the II in a
multi ude Of handkerchefs. The theaters
are aft icted with cracked SOPRANOS, frog "
tenors, a 81 husky leah & ladies, who lose
their voices ca ly n the fr,t c., aul never
find them a-ain till the curtain falls.
Twenty per cent. of the puatIon male
a female is ina Ors nursing noses and
anathematlzing the K ls,ial visitor. But
they have g c0nsola ion Of knowing that
NeV York isn't the only SUI Ter. To- nesrly
every city al NJ the 4 lant.c seab lard, aud
not few inland, are joining in the sternu-
tatorf chorus.
This "a e-,,lar cop6it;o,, ~ q fFair, hos as,
cited a grea tiutter among the doctors AID
a very lively dispute Is now in progress as
TO the identity of the influenza epidem
nov raging here with tn which has half
. million victims in lis grasp IN Europe at
the present moment While a majority Of
the leading New York physician regard
the two as Identical n every respect, save
in the mitig ted severity of the afflic-
ton We are enduring, there are
few who stick 10 1t That we haven't got the
real article vet, bu5 only mild fnre-aste,
and that, when the grip does come, ev rv-
body will know it. Thu, is the att ude
taken by e medical officials in the health
board and the different institutions: bnt it
is significant that one and all seem to think
1t inevitable that some time during The
winter we are TO have the Russian v>i or
here il full vlgor, and that 1t would be well
to prepare for MIN.
Meanwhile. there Is feeling of SUI dued
excitement over the matter, and the grip
is the topmost topic Of course. Those who
have the influenza, aud their name is
legion, are certain they have toe genuine
article from ST. Peterson and p rs.
Those who haven't got it as yet are in
hourly expectation of feeling its u gentle
GRASP. Imaginative people, hypochondri-
acS, ard others are worrying over it, aud
hund eds have fitted southwark, believing
that & lddle II alone ca act as a bar
rler to the visitor from the fri ID ATTITUDES
OF Northern Europe. A large number of
cases have been reported to the health
board, and still larger number are unre-
ported, many fearing that the board will
order the quarantinlng in their own homes
OF persons So afflicted. In most cases tn
attack is slight, and lasts but a few DAYS;
but II IS quite severe enough to PROSTATE
the victim. 1t FREQ uently runs through a
whole family, ana a number Of cases If
this sort have been reported. In one
family-the Klamroths--the disease at
tackled the first member on Thursday,
and by Sunday evening eight others had
been pr strated in rapid succession, with
chllls, vertigo, fever and nausea, accom-
panied by sore throat. cardiac pain, catarrh.
a complete muscular prostration. This
diagnosis describes every case, the only
yaria ion being in the intensity and DUR
ton Of the a tack
had a chat with DR.. c. B. Bryant, the
leading medical adviser of the health hoard
about epidemic.
People here enjoy the great American
privilege OF having anything they WANT
said h, jocularly, land if their imagine
ton leads them to think they have the grip.
let them think so. don't say they haven't
the grip; but mind you. if the Russian in
nuenza which Is now raging in Paris and
Berlin should come along, we Will be apt
to know II without any eff rt of the imagi-
nation. Ho could people avoid it! Wen,
if 1t comes in its true form, it will be at
tended by such atmo pheric and o tner
conditions as TO be practically unavoidable.
1t will not be an is j ted case, here and
there, bat general ailment that would
Affect pretty nearly everybody.
Some people are scared very easily.n
DIR. Bryant continued. Zone man
came TO my office yesterday, he rang the
bell, and, though invited in. preferred to
stand on the st op had TO see him there.
de told NE he had the grip, and didn't want
10 come IN and infect my house Now, the
grip isn't thing TO be Communicated that
wav; iC as he bad made up his nlnd about
it, let him think so. / don't know of anv
re arkable fea ures about the present
influenza" he added. ''Here see what the
Medical Journal says"
And lie pointed 10 an article on the pre.
waning elluemlc lnterenCIalIy identifying il
Is disease OF the same character as that
which visited England ia 1S47-'4S. when
5000 deaths occurred in six weeks. the epi-
demlc raging at the same time in Venice
and Milan After looking over these state.
ments, DIR. Bryant evidently thought his
reference had been an unfortu ate one a d
calculated to excite instead of allaying ap-
prehension.
There you can form your own con-
clusion," he added. IF people want to
have the grip 50 bad that they Imagine they
have it, the best plan is to let them think
SO. Ii does no harm, you know, and besides
they can't get the grip that way"
Nv hat conditions are favorable TO its de-
yelopmeDts"
That is difficult to answer. Bad weather
such as we have had lately always brings
lots of Influenza, which is severe ON the weak
and the aged. But cannot say that the grin
is here yet, he Tepeated. People NAV
claim to have the honor of bel lg the first
yicIGs, and some doctors may declare that
they have dag cstica ell the first case of the
ep.Qenic. Wei. let them The TYLER grin
" hlca we rad many years az was | sup
pose, pretty muc4 the sane sorJ # thing
We are row enduring, al az gra-
vated inhuenza, affect = everyb5 iv,
more o less. Certain atm5S-
pbeIic conditions, long continued and unfa-
vora le, produce debility that prepare,
the sy- TEN the germs'of any dseas..
But It IS y e Sc 10 say that the grip is t e
precursor u anr IN re Serious epi nc OF