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Show Preventing the Orip, New York World. i'ntil scienoe has discovered just bow the mysterious disease called giip" i-spread it is easier to enjoin (he wisdom of avoiding it Hum it is to adopt sure means , if escape. The rapidity with which the epidemic extends over a community and a country and its ai-inullancoiis ai-inullancoiis appearance iu different quartan f the glob would appear to indicate atmos-phcrh atmos-phcrh Influence rather than personal infection. infec-tion. And if the epidemic is "in Ihe air" escape es-cape would seem to be largely a matter of chance. But whatever may be the source of the malady, mal-ady, it is u matter of common ob-eriatiou that persons in prime physical condition are very much less liable to have It than ure those wiio are nol up lo t he standard. This is true Jot all epidemics. There is wisdom, therefore, in Dr. Shrady's timely admonition in no interview 1., ol ...... ..1. ,.., vlJ j'e av i ill.: gospel of prevention." His injunctlot s are ! lo "keep up lo the highe-i .,oii,t or hialth ! keep free from worry; avoid excesses; take plenty of sleep and rrgui.ir mmils ; follolw the general laws of health laws and ruleswhlcb bring a man into first i das- physical dondL lion and you will be in the best poA-ihlc condition to guard against any epidetnl " Beyond this the coili - ;- d medical i ipln-i"ii ipln-i"ii from all parte of the world is to to e effect ef-fect that the "grip," when it once sell a rson, is a disease to "give ,, (. To stay in tin- house and send for a ; hysiclan ii the ! dictate of prude,,. . . ,, hlm jn getting out and to work aft, , u,e vrj 5ce-of 5ce-of the attack has passed swells the rath r0H- |