Show PARISIAN CHEMISTS fr They Give their Opinions Upon the Influenza Epidemic THE METHOD OF TREATMENT Seems t be Quinine and Antipyrine Al the Pharmacies are Crowded from Morn till Night Special THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch PAWS Dec 25By cable to the New York lIeraltLWe are doing a rushing business said M Robert a fashionable chemist in Rue de la Paix today the most of our customers being down with la maladie de la monde The physicians have also been busy although many of them have been laid up with la grippe at Jhe same time Many people wait six or ight hours before they receive attention A pharmacist in France does not make any suggestions to his patients I is not allowed al-lowed In this country he cannot proscribe pro-scribe the only thing he docs when asked what to take for a very bad cold is to suggest sug-gest quinine antipyrino and elderodyne An exceedingly good mixture is composed of ammoniated quinine with a small quantity quan-tity of aconite Chlorodyne is largely prescribed because it stops a cough It t is good to take at night Ten drops in a wine glass half full of water will sooth a patient and enable him to pass a reasonably good night Do you find that prescriptions are generally the same for the epidemic Yes I think the men do not suffer as much as the women because a womans nervous system is more readily disturbed bat of a man The most distressiag part of getting well is the cough which remains with a person after inlluenza has disappeared disap-peared The disease is practically broken in a few daysbut the cough may remain a week or ten days longer We never take our hands off the quinine bottle nowadays said M Beral a chemist to me chemist Is quinine a popular remedy for influenza in-fluenza Yes Quninine and antipyrine are simple remedies Quinine allays feverishness feverish-ness but we find a great sale too for aconite pasties and aconite syrup At present we do not do much of anything ex 4 cp t for la grippe Not for many years S ave we had so much work to do We esaer uite us much to people who think they are r giiig to have it as to those who have already taken it Do you till many prescriptions for convalescents con-valescents 1 Yes some It is well to take salicylate of sodium I is something like antipyrine though I believe its effects are more permanent per-manent Many cough prescriptions are made ot morphine and codeine but quinine is the popular remedy for people who doctor doc-tor themselves and it is taken two or II three times a day Another good thing for the pain in the heart arising from cold is a preparation of carbolic acid and ammonia am-monia for inhaling M Swann of the Rue Castiglione and a chemist during a conversation on influenza said It seems to me that as every other disease has yielded to the epidemi so a our prescriptions have been for it and most of our customers have had it in a mild form Some of them have taken simply doses of quinine but notably hypophos phite of quinine In all such cases the patients have either escaped it altogether alto-gether or have had it in a very light I form not lasting more than twelve hours I is taken a a preventive in doses of two pills a day of one grain each because they arc equal to two grains of plain quinine II It appears also that quinine is taken during the convalescent period and when administered with food it will never disagree dis-agree with the stomach From the proscriptions i pro-scriptions we have made the treatment for the epidemic appears t be purgation and so quinine and antipyrine are generally I gener-ally used I Dr Hogg a Champs Elysee chemistwas I next visited In answer to the same question ques-tion his reply was Quinine and antipy I iidftWo have done nothing but to attend toJmfluenza prescriptions Our employees I ihjee worked from fc oclock is the morning yntil 11 oclock at night I have three men constantly employed making cachets I think that the mild weather is better than cold and snowy blasts t decrease the epi BTTiir for there are fewer chances in mild weather of having catarrhal accidents Prescriptions are about the same for everybody every-body I 1 were ill I would take antipy rine As for preventative doses they are all humbug An epidemic of this sort will have its run no matter whether one tries t prevent having it or not So far qui nide und antipyrine is the general prescription prescrip-tion for our crowds of customers I had considerable difficulty in getting an interview with M Equignon director of the Pharmacie Normale Rue Drouot The jiish of customers is so great just now that M Equignon has forthe last fortnight been obliged t help his assistants What are themedicines most frequently prescribed for the epidemic Sulphate of quinine and antipyrine Doses vary according to ago and constitution constitu-tion of the patient Some of the doctors 4 also prescribe calming draughts for influenza influ-enza These are usually syrup of codeine I and syrup of opium besides which such tonics as quinine and wine of coca are frequently fre-quently given We have also a number of prescriptions to makeup calling for emetics emet-ics and purgatives This shows that the doctors who prescribe them are anxious to clear out the digestive organs and give their patients a free stomach Such is hve general character of the various prescriptions prescrip-tions for influenza that have passed through our hands The Pharmacie Centralo Hossfcopathie in the Rue duHelder has for its ftsvomers many of the shining lights and instead of the rush and bustle of the establishment in the Rue Drouot I found there the calm and tranquil atmosphere of a salon in the Faubourg Saint Germin In reply t my first question the direc teur M Leon Kim said The homeopathic homeo-pathic treatment for the epidemic is invariably in-variably the same This treatment is as follows fol-lows At the commencement of the malady either aconite or baptisa tincture then If cerebral symptoms manifest themselves belladonna is given while pulsatilla is I beladonna whie pulsatla proscribed pro-scribed i erratic pains stationary Rhus 1 toxicum is given during convalescence I Not only is gen invariably followed I fol-lowed but it also invariably leads to prompt I recovery the duration of the disease never exceeding fortyeight hours I may also add that i when first the chill appears aconite is promptly taken the malady is nipped in the bud in first place The chemist in the Quartier des Halles are undergoing a veritable siege I was I only with the greatest difficulty that I jld induce any of them to lay aside their I lruld and mortars long enough t give me the benefit of their ideas on the subject Some of them of the epidemic expressed the belief that fully G per cent of the population of this quarter had been attacked at-tacked by influenza I is a golden age for chemists confessed one of them During Dur-ing the last fortnight our receipts have quadrupled I have been told on good authority au-thority that the Pharmacie Normale took in tbff other day as much as five thousand franC Thl ilnarter of Paris where the epidemic is apparently raging with the greatest severity se-verity is the aristocratic Faubourg St Germain At Pharmacie Boinet I was assured as-sured that nearly everybody in all the stately mansions of the faubourg has been I attacked by the epidemic For example sqid a chemist at the hotel of the committee commit-tee do P in which there are no less than l1 < forty persons the valet de pied is the only one that i not laid up with influenza It has only ben ten or twelve days since the epidemic declared itself in this quarter At first it was very mild but now it is complicated with other and more serious complaints especially bronchial trouble Six days ago we had hardly an order for a blister and now we are obliged t prepare a dozen or more every day and the number is constantly on the increase I is a curious curi-ous fact that in the case of children the epidemic proves very benign and short in duration The acuteness and length of the illness increase with the age of the patient i The students of today have very little in common with the Bohemians of the day of Henry Murger When they fall ill they take a good care of themselves as any of the bons bourgeois This however does not prevent them from influenza said M Pelisse the chemist in the Rue des Ecoles I whose shop is alongside the Sarbonne i for more than a week wo have been overrun over-run with orders My place is never empty All my assistants have had the epidemic so have my shop boys What we have the greatest call for is a solution which I have strongly recommended for use during the catarrhal period of the complaint This is a solution of benzoato of soda which gives great satisfaction a an expectorant I have noticed that the complications which have increased in number during the last few days are nearly all cases of pneumonia pneu-monia or similar maladies It is in the bronchial organs that the chief danger feared lies Congestion of the lungs is also to be |