ANTI-INFLUENZA MASKS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16541, 5 June 1919, Page 8

ANTI-INFLUENZA MASKS.

LIKE USING "BARBED-WIRE FENCES TO SHUT OUT FLIES." Speaking at tho annual meeting of the Bovril Company, Sir James Cnch-ton-Browne, M.D.j F.R.S., said: "We have, I see, been recommended as a guard against influenza, to go about wearing masks like the actors in the Greek tragedies. Now I have ijo wish to discourage the uso of masks ny those who have faith in them, although I am not quite sure that their suaden general adoption might not lead to that state of panic which is always conducive to the soroad of epidemic disease, but I would roint out that the most recont researches go to show that- the influenza organism and toxin pass readily through a porcelain filter, and if that bo so, any mask that could be worn would be no more efficacious than would bo '•ho orection of a- barbed-wire felice to shut out the flies. The best precautionary measure is the maintenance of good sound bodily health. "It is. I think, a matter of deep regret that during the recent visitation of influenza there should have been, through the shortage of bottles, a dearth of Bovril. But tho visitation is not yet over. THE THIRD WAVE. "Its past history suggests that influenza epidemics come in three great waves. -Two of these waves have swept over us with dire results, and the third wave seems now to be gathering force and advancing with its death-dealing concomitants, pneumonia, moningitis, and heart failure. It is to bo hoped that during the third wave more copious.supplies of Bovril may become available. I regard it as a great protection against influenza. We have scriptural authority for believing that if you resist the devil ho will flee from you, and that is true of the fiend—lnfluenza. Wo must strengthen our resistance against his attacks. We have as yet no specifio remedy, and it is better to keep him at arm's length than to wrestle with him after he has got a grip of us and has invaded our system. Well, Bovnl will assist us to do tliat._ It supplies readily assimilable nourishment, invigorates, fortifies, and supports, especially during exposure and exhaustion, and so heightens our power of resistance to the disease. A GREAT RECONSTRUCTOR, We have the testimony of all our leading Genorals that Bovril has proved an inestimable boon and comfort to our men in the trenches, in the field, and on the march, and notable as were its services during the war, Ihey are certain to bo no less signal now that Peace is declared. Bovril is a great Reconstructor, and will help to steady, recuperate, and build up again those w hose nerves, in the words of the Prime Minister, "have been rattled" during tho war. 36