Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-02-18
The GRIP EPIDEMIC.
Opinions OF New York Physicians as to
Cause and Cure.
New York Exchange

There is probably no family in the
city of which some member is not
laid up, or ut least attacked bv the
grip"
While grip is the same old enemy,
ii seems TO he very different this sea-
son from other years. On the streets
and street cars and in the churches
one meets with people violently sneez-
ing, with running eyes. coughing and
with woe-begone expression on their
faces. Like all epidemics of this kind,
few are exempt. Ii attacks the rich
and poor alike and physicians are
being worked night and day.
To obtain reliable information on
this most important subject reporter
recently called upon some we'll known
physicians to learn from them what
he could do in relation to it.
''All agreed on the opinion that the
maiady was rapidly increasing and
that in most cases it was of an ex-
tremely dangerous nature
.'One medical man. who is said to
have treated no less than one hundred
grip patients in n single week. said to
the reporter
Serious results will always follow
an attack of the grip if it is not prop
erly treated. Often it runs into pneu-
monia and always it leaves unpleas-
ant or dangerous complications. 1t
seems TO be different this year from
ever before. Ny experience has
shown that the worst grip comes
when the body is clogged up and
when the secretions fail to have the
right exit
drain clogged? Well. that is pre-
cisely the condition of the body that
invites grip. The fluids have no
means OF escape and so they back up
and flood everything. just as n clogged
natural? 1t is certainly true
When person is attacked by
grip" the doctor continued, che
should not try to fight the sensations
of cold, aching limbs and extreme
WEAKNESS under the impression that
he has simply an ordinary cold, but
should stay indoors, avoid excess of
eating and drinking and above all
take timely remedy"
The reporter being anxious to dis
cover what the public considered a
timely remedy aud was taking most,
visited the leading drug stores and
interviewed the proprietors. The
general opinion was well expressed by
the manager of prominent Fifth
avenue pharmacy, who said: Grip?
Yes, it is raging. But it seems TO
come in different ways from any for
mer years. People come into our
store all clogged up. Not necessarily
in the head, but all over the body.
They have headaches, it is true, but
then they have backache, too, and
pains all through the system. You
know the body is like Il city. All the
waste matter must be carried away.
When the sewers do not work there
is trouble. People are beginning
to understand that they must
keep the sewers, especially the kid
neys, in good condition, or they can
not hope to escape or regain health.
What is the remedy? Well, we have
store full of so called remedies, but
we have only one which our custom
ers find produces the effects desired.
We do not recommend anything, but
can tell you what the people use. 1t
is something reliable, something
which is certain to unclog the sys-
tenn, something which is recon-
mended by physicians and is very
popular with the people-Warner's
Safe Cure. We look upon it as the
safest and the best remedy that any
one can take when suffering from the
many, many serious ailments so COM
mon at this season of the year
This information is certainly of the
highest Importance in view of the in
creasing number of people who are
suffering from colds, chills, grip and
the ills of the season. Very often the
serious results which follow these
attacks might have been avoided if
the proper remedy had been taken in
time Health is a serious matter and
especially at this season of the year,
when so many things are fighting
bitterly against it.