The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
BRAIN FAC RAGING
LONDoN'S NEW DISEASE HAS
 MANY CHICAGO VICTIMS.
Malady Knows No Class Distinction as in England and High and Low Aliko are Sufferers-Serious
 Among Board of Trade Men.

Chicago Tribune.
 Brain flag, the disease of the century, according to London specialists. is raging
 as an epidemic in Chcago. The queston propounded by The London Daily Mail, l 'Is brain flag to be regarded as a distin-
 gushing feature of fife in the new cen- l turyT' was answered by a chorus of Yes" fin Chicago yesterday. Doctors, | lawyers, brokers and business men de-
 clared that the disease. in it's most viru- | lent form, is raging in Chicago; that the tremendous rush and struggle for exist
 ence or riches in Chicago Is developing
 brain flag at an alarming rate.
 One strange feature of the inquiry into
 the development of the disease Is that | the instructors at the University of Chi cago, at Northwestern University, and in the public schools declared that such a | thing as brain flag was unheard of in these schools. According to the London medical ex- perts the disease exists only in the higher classes of society in Great Britain. Ac- cording to Chicago experts brain flag ex- | ists among all classes of men and women 1 in Chicago. They argue that this proves that Americans of all classes think for themselves. while fin the older countries | the workingmen permit their lords or em- ployers to think for them.
 The symptoms of the disease are heavi- | ness and pain around and under, especial 1 ly under, the eyeballs, an excessive lassi- tude and lifelessness. Alcoholic bever- ages or other stimulants are used for re- | lief by the victims of the disease, and the result frequently Is inebriation which sometimes becomes chronic. One common result is madness.
 The doctors at the detention hospital | and at Dunning declare the disease has greatly increased the number of insane rao ttn, xr,lAA l., Akz nck nr,1 | the records of the insane court seem to | bear them out, although alcoholism as
 a cause of insanity is not always the re- suit of brain flag. Tho physicians at Dunning declare that the records there
 will show that brain flag, followed by | chronic drunkenness and then madness. is prevalent. especially among professional | men of Chicago and alarmingly so among writers.
 "The number of writers who have died
 here insane during the last five years"
 one Cunning physician said yesterday. "has been alarming. These men ali came
 here suffering in the same way They all told the same story-exhaustion, weari- ness, headaches after hard days, shooting pains under their eyes. They found drink a remedy-drank to excess. Between | finally mental and physical wrecfs. they
 were brought here. Nearly every one
 died raving within a few days after
 reaching here although a few, recovering
 strength rapidly and getting entire rest. l recovered'
 La Salle Street brokers and board of
 trade men declare brain flag is common
 among them and that many have gone
 the same way. "You would be surprised
 at the amount of headache medicine sell
 to board of trade men during a busy
 day" said a drug store proprietor whose place Is near the board 'T can tell by
 my sales of patent headache medicine l just how much business is being done on
 the board. The brokers rush in here,
 complain of pains around their eyes and
 of headacre. swallow some patent rem
 edy, and then rush back to the board.
 The disease is well defined, and the symp-
 toms are the same Tn every instance" | "I don't know what they call the dis-
 ease" said a big board of trade operator,
 but I do know that. if the man at the head of big concerns did not take frequent
 vacations. they would all go crazy.
 have suffered for years from headaches
 and pains around my eyes. Sometimes | have hardly been strong enough to get ou
 of my chair to start home. Golf is my
 remedy, and 1t cures"