The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-11
THE GRIP EPIDEMIC.
Opinions of New York Physicians as
to Cause and Cure.
New York Exchange

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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 on 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 weli-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-
tremely dangerous nature.
One 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 viii always follow an
attack of the grip if it is not properly
treated. Often it runs into pneumonia.
and always it leaves unpleasant or dan
gerous complications. 1t seems to be
different thic war from aver before
My experience has shown that the
worst grip comes when the body is
clogged 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
everything, just as clogged sewer
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 sim
ply 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 proprietors. The general
opinion was well expressed by the
manager of prominent Fifth avenue
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 clogged
up. Not necessarily in the head, but all
over the body. They have headaches,
it is true; but then, they have back
ache, 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 kidneys,
in good condition, or they cannot 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 pro-
duces the effects desired. We do not
recommend anything, but I can tell
you what the people use. 1t is some
thing reliable, something which is GER
tain to unclog the system, something
which is recommended by physicians
and is very popular with the people
Warmers Safe Cure. We look upon it
as the safest and the best remedy that
anyone can take when suffering from
the many, many serious ailments 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
lacks might have been avoided if the
proper remedy had been taken in time
Health is a serious matter, and espe-
cially at this season of the year. when
so many things are fighting bitterly
against it.