Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-16
THE GRIP EPIDEMIC.
Opinions Of New York Physicians as to
Cause and Cure,
New York Exchanged

There is probably no family in the
city of which some member is not laid
up, or at least attacked by the grip"
While grip is the same old enemy, it
seems to be very different this season
from other years. On the streets and
street cars and in the churches one
meets with people violently sneezing,
with running eyes, coughing and with
a woe-begone expression or their
faces. Like all epidemics of this kind,
few are exempt. 1t attacks the rich
and poor alike and physicians are
being worked night and day.
To obtain reliable information on
this most important subject a reporter
recently called upon some well-known
physicians to learn from them what he
could do in relation to it.
"All agreed on the opinion that the
malady was rapidly increasing and
that in most cases it was of an ex-
aremely dangerous nature"
Zone medical man. who is said to
have treated no less than one hundred
grip patients in a single week, said to
the reporter
Serious results will always follow
an attack Of the grip if it is not
properly treated. Often it runs into
pneumonia and always it leaves I'M
pleasant or dangerous complications.
1t seems to be different this year from
ever before. My experience has shown
that the worst grip comes when the
body is clogged up and when the secre-
tiOnS fail to have the right exit"
Have o ever seen a or a
drain clogged. Well, that is precisely
the condition of the body that invites
grip. The fluids have no mean of es-
cape and SO they back up and flood
everything, just as a clogged W
floods the street. Is this not natural?
1t is certainly true"
when a person is attacked by grip"
the doctor continued, "he should not
try to fight Off 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 a
timely remedy"
The reporter being anxious to dis
cover what the public considered a
timely remedy and was taking most,
visited the leading drug stores and in
terviewed the proprietoIs. The gen.
eral opinion was we'll expressed by the
manager of a prominent Fifth Avenue
pharmacy, who said: Grip? Yes, it is
raging. But it seems to come in a
different way from any former years.
People come into our store all clOgged
up. Not necessarily in the head, but
all over the body. They have head
aches, it is true, but thSl they have
backache too and pains all through the
system. You know the body is like a
city. All the waste matter must be
carried away. When the sewers do not
work there is trouble. People are be-
ginning 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 a
store full of so-called remedies, but we
have only one which our customers
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 system, some
thing which is recommended by ply
sicians and is very popular with the
people-Warner's Safe Cure. We look
upon it as the safest and the best rem
edy that anyone can take when suffer-
ing from the many, many serious all
ments SO common 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 at
tacks might have been avoided if the
proper remedy had been taken in time.
Health is a serious matter and especi-
ally at this season of the year, when SO
many things are fighting bitterly
against it.