Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-11
QUITE LIKE orHER YEARS.

QUITE LIKE OTHER YEARS.
DR.. Cooper, his next door neighbor, said:
''The grip is beginning 10 make its ap-
pearance in Allegheny City. 1 have had
several cases. There is not an unusual
amount of sickness going on at present.
There are not mole than the usual number
of cases of pneumonia and other diseases
that make general appearance at this time
of the year. There is a large number of
people laid up with bad colds. Some
physicians would call some of them the
grip, but wouldn't"
w. P. McIlroy, of East Diamond street,
said: There are greater number of people
now suffering with colds than there would be
if the Russian influenza had not swept over
the country. In past winters these cases
were commonly called colds; now they are
cases of Ia grippe think there has
been great deal of noise made about the
fashionable disease. If it was not the
proper thing to have it, great many per-
sons now suffering would never have felt
the effects of it. The general health Of the
city is good. OF course, there is q great
amount of sickness, but there are not as
many as we should have in this kind of
weather."
DIR. Mary E. Smith, of East Diamond
street, said: 81 have had great number of
bad colds and influenza cases, but no grip
Ny opinion OF the matter is that if the
people never heard of the grip there would
be great many who now have it that
would not be suffering"
ONE WHO TRIED THE TYLER GRIP.
DIR. j. F. Cooper, of Arch street, who is
one of the best known homeopaths, and was
in bed four weeks in the grasp of the TYLER
grip in '43, said: During the summer and
fall just passed. there was a considerable
number of fevers. As they began to wane
we had a healthy period followed BY a gen.
eral catarrhal illness. This developed into
influenza, and there is enough of it to be
epidemic. We now have con-
siderable number of catarrhal dis
eases with influenza predominating.
These prevail sometimes in January and
February. The whooping cough, measles,
etc., are a little earlier this year than
usually. In 1S43 I had the Tyler grip
and lay for four weeks with it. 1t was the
same as very severe cases of influenza, and
the present epidemic may become as bad as
it progresses. There is no other disease of
anv serious moment in the city. The gen.
eral health of the people, think, is as good
as could be expected in this kind of weather.
If we have no more rain and the ground
dries up the condition Will improve. five
have more moisture think it will grow
worse"
Dr.. E.. v. Pitcairn said: ST do not think
there is anything prevalent in the city ex-
cept the great number of colds, commonly
called grip I do not take much stock in
these stories of Russian influenza, and do
not think the minority of the cases have de-
veloped into the ordinary influenza"
DR.. E. G. Huselton, of North Diamond
genuine grip yet. The health of the people
is comparatively fair for this kind of
weather..
SIMPLY SEVERE COLDS.
1.-THE people are not suffering from any
thing but severe colds. There is nothing in !
this city like what we are led to believe ex-
lists in New York. We see accounts in THE |
DISPATCH of people snufing and sneezing |
like horse with the glanders. I have a |
number of cases that the people call grip |
but call them common, everyday colds" |
DIR. j. b. Christie, of Arch street: "Most |
Of the present trouble is due to atmospheric |
conditions. Every person that now gets a
cold calls it the, grip but think there is
wind about it. As far as L |
can see, however, there are great many /
cases of influenza in the city. From the
symptoms given think its the same that is
sweeping over the country. One Young
lady patient of mine went to town at noon.
Between and o'clock the same ternoon
sne was in bed with the genuine influenza.
Her pulse jumped above 100 and every
symptom showed it to he the disease. Out
side Of the influenza 1 do not think that
there is more than the ordinary amount of
sickness. If we get dry atmosphere 1
think there will be fewer people suffering
with colds. These reported deaths from in
huenza do not take much stock in"
DR.. Buchanan, surgeon of the Pennsyl-