The age-herald., 1899-02-09
THE GRIP EPIDEMIC.
Opinions of New York Physician as to
 Cause and Cure.
(New York Exchange.O

G.J There is probably no family in the city
 or 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
 and in the churches one meets with people Violently sneezing, with running eyes, coughing and with woe-begone expression
 on their faces. Like all epidemics of this kind, few are exempt. It 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 well-known physicians to
 learn from them what he could do in rela-
 tion to it.
 All agreed on the opinion that the malady
 was rapidly increasing, and that in most cases 1t was of an extremely dangerous na- ture
 One medical man, who is said to have treated no less than one hundred grip pa- tients in a single week, said to the re- porter:
 Serious results will always follow an att tack of the grip if 1t Is not properly treat ed. Often 1t runs into pneumonia, and al- ways 1t leaves unpleasant or dangerous
 complications. It 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 you ever seen a sewer or a drain clogged? Well, that is precisely the condi- tion of the body that invites grip. The fluids have no means of escape, and so they back up and flood everything, just as a clogged sewer floods the street. Is this not natural? It Is certainly true.
 "When person is attacked by grip" the doctor continued, "he should not try to
 fight off the sensations of cold. aching limbs and extreme wearness under the impress sion 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 rem | edy, and was taken most visited the lead | ing drug stores and interviewed the propri- | etors The general opinion was well ex- | pressed by the manager of a prominent l Fifth avenue pharmacy, who said: Grip? | Yes. 1t 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 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 mat | ter must be carried away. When the sew | CTS 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 es- | cape or regain health. What is the reme- | dy? We'll. we have a store full of so-called | remedies, but we have only one which our | customers find produces the effects de- 1 sired. We do not recommend anything, | but I can tell you what the people use. It | Is something reliable-something which is ] certain to unclog the system; something 1 which is recommended by physicians and Is very popular with the people-Warners g | Safe Cure. We look upon it as the safest | and the best remedy that anyone can take
 when suffering from the many, many seri- 1 ous ailments so common at this season of | the year."
 This information is certainly of the high | est importance in view of the increasing number of people who are suffering from | colds, chils, grip and the ills of the sea- l son. Very often the serious results which | follow these attacks might have been avoid | ed if the proper remedy had been taken in | time. Health Is a serious matter, and es- | pecially at this season of the year, when l so many things are fighting bitterly against