The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-10
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 cid enemy.
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. 1t attacks the rich
and poor alike and physicians are be
ing worked night and day.
To obtain reliable information on this
most important subject a reporter re-
Gently called upon some well-know.5
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 CT an ex-
tre1nely dangerous nature.
One medical man, who is said to
have treated no less than enc 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 unpleasant or
dangerous complications. 1t seems 10
be different this year from ever before.
Ny experience has shown that the
worst grip comes when the body is
clogged uD and when the secretions
fail to have the right exit.
Have you ever seen a sewer or
drain clogged Well, that is precisely
the condition of the body that invites
grip. The fluids have no means OF
escape and SO they back up and food
everything. Just as a clogged sewer
floods the street. Is this not natural?
1t is certainly true
When person is attacked by grip"
the doctor continued, he should not
try to fight off the sensati tons CT cold.
aching limbs and extreme WEAKNESS
under the impression that he has sim
ply an ordinary cold. but should stay
indoors, avoid excess of. eating and
drinking and above all take a timely
remedy"
Inc reporter being anxious TO dis
cover what the public considered
timely remedy and was taking most,
visited the leading drug stores and
interviewed the proprietors. The gen
arr IL hi.
manager of prominent Fifth Avenue
pharmacy, who said: Grip? Yes. q
is raging. But ii seems to come in q
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
achess it is true, but then they have
backache too and pains all through
the system. You know the body is
/ like 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
kidneys. 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 ole which our customers
find produces the effects desired We
do not recommend anything, but 1 can
| tell you what the people use. II is
something reliable, something which rs
/ certain to unclog the system, some
thing which is recommended by physi-
/ clans and is very popular with the
people-Warner's Safe Cure. We look
upon it as the safest AID the best rem
edy that any one 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 serious matter and es-
| pecially at this season of the year,
when SO many things are fighting bit
| terly against it.