Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-01-17
10000 CASES or THE GRIP
One Physicians Estimate of
Number OF People Affected.
IT IS NOT AS VIOLENT AS BEFORE
Less Patients Now Than There
Were a Week Ago.
Suggestions as TO How TO Get The Grip md
How 10 Recover From It-Rest is an Inn
portant Element IN the Treatment.

Here are directions for getting the
grip * - aflaa
Stay up late tsfiT aE9A
Dent pay attention to your diet.
Get run down. 11
Indulge 10 exoessss.
Go cut with too little clothing on.
Go out with too much clothing on.
Sit 10 n draft. ig
Lose sleep. 1885,
When your head hegins to ache, and
to feel oil stopped up. and you are sore
all over, about 10 times as sore as you
are after INDUCING In unusual and VIC
lent exercises, when you simply don't
care whetheranything happens or not
then you have the grip. Further as
sistanoe lie diagnosing your case before
the physician arrives may be obtained
from perusal Of the Dooley paper on
the grip, in which he tells OF swallow
ing a Ia grip bug and the consequent
widespread effects.
The difference between cold aud the
grip is that however badly you feel
with cold. you feel worse with the
grip. So that tho grip is 1.-THE came as
cold only more so.
Wilmington physician estimated a
few days ago that there wore 10, 600
cases in this city. This seems rather
large, vet in each PERSONS knowledge q
large proportion OF tho population is
Affected. The physicians are very busy
in attending 10 the calls upon them
and yet are generally escaping the ILL
ness themselves, which is q fortunate
thing for their patients. Some Of them
have 30 or 40 cases o day. School
teachers and newspaper man are among
those who have been sufferers from the
grip.
~ think 1t has reached its height"
said DR.. Howard Ogle this morning,
in discussing the grip conditions. In
bis view and il is borne out by the
other physicians, the disease Ia not so
violent as 1t WIS at its last visitation
in 1888, although many more persons
are having 1t Patients feel ''all gone
TO smash" and have pain all over at
the start; after that they display much
lassitude.
About the best thing for the un.
fortunate one Is rest. rest in bed for a
few days. Tho physicians prescribe
quinine and keep the patient quiet.
Many sick ones come through without
medical mid at all.
Today there are probably less cases
| than there were week ago. There
have been few deaths resulting directly
from the grip. 1t has been compli-
cation in some that have ended in
death, and may have preceded pneu-
monia in some instances, especially Of
| older persons.
For those who have and those who
have not the grip, IL will be- we'll 70
/ take things easily until the cooling
weather has been able to strengthen the
body'a resistance ato the unwelcomt
| visitor. s3f sA
| Wilmington is no exception in tn,
prevalence of grip, for other cities have
it, notably Philadelphia and New York,
| As to the conditions in Philadelphia,
the Evening Telegraph says that the
grip is prevalent throughout every sec
tion of the city, and II is rare store Oh
office which does not have number o.
it's force among the sufferers. TIL,
complaint is In much milder form thar
when it first appeared in this country
about half dozen years ago, SO tina
as a general rule the afflicted do mo-
| yield to its influences, and keen t.
their beds. In banks aud some similaI
Institutions, however, the absence O
two or three persons mates deticieno,
in the force which causes considerable
difficulty in keeping up with the dali,
routine of work.