The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-18
THE GRIP EPIDEMIC.
Opinions of New York Physicians as to
Cause and Cure.
Ne,o York Exchange.

There is probablv 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 be3very different tnls 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 on their faces.
Like all epidemics of this kind, few are
exempt. 1t attacks the rleh and poor
alike and physicians are being worked
night and day.
To obtain reliable information on this
most important subject. reporter re-
Gently 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 mos cases it was of an extremely
dangerous nature.
| One medical man, who is said to have
treated no less ulan one hundred grip
patients in a single week, said to the re-
porter
Serious results will always follow an
attack of the grip if it is not properly
treated. Often it rlns into pneumonia
and always it leaves unpleasant or dan
serous complications. 1t seems to be
different this year from ever before.
My experience has shown that the
worst grip comes when the body is clog
ged up and when the secretions fail to
have the right exit.
Have you ever seen a sewer or a
drain clogged. Well, that is precisely
the condition of the body that invites
grip. The fluids have no means of es-
cape and so they back up and flood ev-
erything. just as a clogged sewer floods
the street. Is the 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, ach-
ing 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 a timely
remedy and was taking most, visited
the leading drug stores and interviewed
the proprietors.& The general opinion
was well expressed by the manager of
prominent Fiftinsavenue pharmacy. WHO
said: Grip? Yes, it is raging. But it
seems to come in different way from
any former years. People come into our
store all cloggedup. Not necessarily
in the head, but all over the body They
have headaches 1t is true, but tten
they they have backaetae, too, and pa rs
all through the system. You know, tie
body is like city. All the waste ma
ter must be carried away. When ~
sewers do not work there is troubc
People are beginning to understand
That they must keep the sewers, es-
pecially the kidneys, in good condition,
or they cannot hope to escape or re-
gain 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 any
thing, but I can tell you what the peo-
pie use. 1t is something reliable, some-
thing which is certain to unclog the
system, something which is recommend
ed 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 common at this sea-
son of the year"
This information Is certainly of the
highest Importance in view of the in
creasing number Of people who are suf-
fering from colds chills, grip and the
ills oft he season. Very often the ser.
ious results which follow these attacks
might have been avoided if the proper
remedy had been caken in time. Health
is a serious matter, and especially at
this season of the year, when so many
things are fighting bitterly against it,
Honors for Porter