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Show Cure Fur Th. Orlp. Chicago Herald. Dr. YA ickersham received a cablegram cable-gram from Sir ilortimer Granville, au eminent physician of Loudon, England, yesterday, containing a receipe for the cure of grip, the message was as follows fol-lows "Dr. Mortimer Granville begs IMejiirn nhesininns in lev fiv rrrainu ,.f camphor in twenty minims tincture of iodine in a drachm each of glycerine mid syrup, Give frequently for in tluenza with stroug meat juice. No antipyretic" Dr. Wickersham is of the belief that more sunshine and a dry, warm atmosphere atmos-phere would do more toward killing the grip than any amount of prescriptions. prescrip-tions. Dr. Julius Otto is of the opinion that tht items iu the cabled perscrip-tiou perscrip-tiou will be of undoubted beneht to anybody who is sullhring from severe cold or grip. Some physicians are usiug bromide potash to" act as an antiseptic. The approach of the insid-dioua insid-dioua disease is observed first by the paralytic effect it has upon the small blood vessels. The. vitality is consequently con-sequently lowered aud tho process goes on a9 the natural appetite for food is lost. j Dr. Liston H. Montgomery always gives his patients a tonic when they have the symtoms of grap, as he considers con-siders that a tonic is needed more than anything else when the vitality of the body is lowered. Yet in many of his cases he finds that what the pat-enls thought was grip was nothing but a headache or a slight cold. "Several simple precautions." he said yesterday, "taken to preserve the vitality of the body would prevent a great deal of tho sickness that is prevalent at present. In the street cars a Blight draught through the sides of tbe windows often enough blows down tho necks of the passengers and strikes between the shoulder blades, the most susceptible part of the body, 'i'he cold penetrates at this point straight to the lungs." George Catlin's advice to "shut your mouth and save your life" is good at tbe present' time. If people would breathe through thair noses and less through thair mouths wheu they are out on the streets there would be k'ss chance of catching cold. |