The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-10
THE GRIP EPIDEMIC,
Opinions OF New York Physicians as
to Cause and Cure.
(Nau YORK.

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, II
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 express
| sion 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 re
malady was rapidly increasing and that in
most cases it was of an extremely danger
| Gus nature"
lone medical man who is said to have
| treated no less than one hundred gl-p
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 runs into pneumonia
Gus complications. 1t seems to be differ
ent this year from ever before. Ny expert
ence 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 con-
didon Of the body that invites grip. The
fluids have no means of escape and so they
back up and flood everything, just as
clogged sewer floods the streets. Is this
not natural? 1t is certainly true"
when a person is attacked by grip" the
doctor continued, che should not try 10
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 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 a 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, 1t is true, |
but then they have backaches 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
sewers do not work there IS trouble. Peo-
pie are beginning to understand that they
must keep the sewers, especially the kid
neys, 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 tave only one
which our customers find produces the
effects desired. We do not recommend
anything, but I can tell you what the
people use. 1t is something reliable, scme-
thing which is certain 20 uncIog the
system, something which is recommended !
by physicians and is very popular with the
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 COM
mon at this season of the year"
This information is certainly Of the
highest Importance in view of the increas-
ing number of people who are suffering
from colds, chills, grip and the Ills of the
season. Very often the serious results
which follow these attacks might have
been avoided If the proper remedy had
been taken in time. Health is a serious
matter and especially at this season of the
year, when so many things are fighting
bitterly against it.