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Show tii K ;iwi'. A dispatch from l'ittsourg yesterday gave a doleful account of the prevalence of the grip there, this new epidemic which slslks about Salt Lake with the assurance, though not with tho serious ell'ect, it does in other places. The 1'ittsburg Commercial (Jaotie speaking of tho modern terror and the havoc it creates in that city says: "There is something so baleful, suddon anil universal uni-versal in the present visitation of the grip that it fairly appals the imagination. imag-ination. It seems to be more prevalent prev-alent than it was when it made its appearance ap-pearance here last year after having run its devastating course abroad. In every business house, in all tho public otlices, it gathers victims to an extent that seriously retards transactions; aud while, as a rule, its attacks are not fatal, yet it is having a marked ell'ect upon the death rate, and the mcrtality record of the present month will bo a heavy one. Tho form in which it is chielly displayed in tho mortality returns re-turns is pneumonia, but doubtless its prostrating inlluence is responsible respon-sible for tho fatal type assumcrtt by other diseases as we'll." And then it goes ou speculating upon the probable origin and character of the grip. Whatever be its nature and procedure, there can be no doubt of its peculiar morbilic energy. It is rapid in its onset, varied in its attack, complete in its seizure, and prostrating in its effect. It is of no use to try to tight it off; the sufferer had better prepare fori a siege and ni.g!ect no precaution that j can fortify his vitality during its con- i tinuance. which with proper treatment i and nursing is not long. j |