GRIP SEASON IS HERE

Urbana Courier-Herald January 10, 1905

Good Time of the Year to be Careful of Health

The grip season is here. For the next few weeks it is expected that the number of cases of this kind will be a notable part of the practice ot every physician of the city.

One doctor said yesterday that the disease had some distinctive features this year which are slightly different from its manifestations at any other visitation. It is not expected to be so severe as in the first advent of the Influenza about l880.

The coming of the grip at the regular time in the winter should be a warning to people of all kinds against needless exposure, and a tip to take as good care of their health as possible. It is well known that the grip furnishes the groundwork for many a fatal aliment and the hold which the disease gains upon the individual depends largely upon the general tone of the system when the grip strikes the person. It is well, therefore, to take good care of the general health and try to keep the grip from gaining its first hold in the system. One theory lately advanced is that the increase of the number of cases of appendicitis is due to the prevalence of the grip.