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Show GRIP MADE DOCTORS RICH. British Physicians Had Harvest In the Epidemic of Influenza. Tlio lliltlsli Medical Journal Is nil-thorlt.v nil-thorlt.v for tho slaiement that the incomes in-comes of Kngllsh plivslclanR huvo rnll-cu rnll-cu off ono-roiirth since 11)00, and anions tlio causes mentioned Is tlio abatement or tho l.il'.uenza epidemic, which appealed somo yonrs ago, mid tho nilldncis of lecent Ungllsh w Intel In-tel s Wo mo healing much loss of the lnllimiua or gilp in this country, sajs tho Sprlnglleld Itepnhllcan, und there may bo tlioue by mid by who will as nort that it never existed us n distinct disease except in tho Imagination, hut those who have hud it will novor forgot for-got it or ho poi siinded to tho contrnry British medical statistics ascrlho 19,-000 19,-000 deaths to this tioulilo In tho ono year of 1H0O, when tlio epidemic seems to have eiihnlnnted It Is now protty wall established thin tho Inlluenza Is a poilodlcal disease, which Is supposed to originate in tho Illth of llfo In the Far Kiist, und which moves from there around the woild hi Increasing violence vio-lence until tho epidemic culminates mid giailually dies out. |