Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
THE GRIP EPIDEMIC
OPINIONS OF NEwfoRK PHYSICIANS AS TO
CAUSE-ANb- CURE


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 1t seems to
be very different this season from other years On
the streets and street cars aud In the churches
one meets with people violently sneezing with
running eyes coughing and with a woe-begone ex-
preston their faces. Like all epidemirs of this
kind few exempt. 1t attacks the rich and
poor alike, and physicians are being worked night
and day.
TO obtain reliable information on this most i'm
portant 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 aud that in most cases 1t was
of extremely dangerous nature,
lone medical man, who is said to have treated
no less than one hundred grip patients in single
week, said to the reporter
Serious results will always follow an attack of
the grip II 1t is not properly treated Often it
runs into pneumonia and always 1t leaves I'M
pleasant dangerous complications 1t seems to
be different this year from ever before NV cx-
perieDce has shown that the worst grip comes
when the body is closged up and when the secre-
lions iail to have the right exit
Have you ever seen a sewer a drain clogged :?
Well. that is precisely the condition of the body
that invites grip. The fluids have 10 means Of es-
cape, and they bacl, up and food everything.
just as clogged sewer floods the street Is this
not naIura? 1t is certainly true
when person is tackled by grip the doc.
tor 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 discover what the
public considered timely remedy and was taking
most. visited the leading drug stores and inter
vi Nai ntar
well expressed by the manager of prominent
Fifth Avenue pharmacy, who said: Grip? Yes
1t Is raging. But 1t seems to 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 headaches 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 cannot hope to escape
or regain health. What is the remedy? Well, we
have u store full If sO-called remedies. but we
have only 7bich our customers find produces
the effects desired. We do not recommend any
thing, but I can tell YOU what the people use. 1t
is something reliable, something which Is certain
to unclog the system. something which is recon.
mended by physicians and is very popular with
the people-Warner's Safe Cure. We look upon it
the safest and the best remedy that any one
can take when suffering from the many many
serious ailments common this season of the
year
This information IS certainly Of the highest i'm
portance in view of the fucre asRg number peo-
pie who suffering from colds, chills grip and
the ills Of the season. Very often the, serious
suits which follow these attacks might have been
avoided if the proper remedy had been taken in
time. Health is serious matter and especially at
this season of the year, when so many things
fighting bitterly against it.