INFLUENZA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1919, Page 2

INFLUENZA

A SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT. A rather re markable article appears in'the British Medical Journal, written by Dr. E. B. Turner, F.R.C.S., celebrated London surgeon, who gave an address to the New Zealand Pte*s delegates in London on the treatment of social diseases. Dr. Turner desu-rihea aiii -unbroken 6eni,es of 2300 cases of influenza, which ended- in complete -recovery with, mo complications and no deaths. In the epidemic in London in October last Dr Turner treated 355 cases, all starting with temperatures., from 103.5 degree’ 4l to 105 degrees. and Ml of virulent type. All recovered without pneumonia or other complications. The treatment was twenty-grain doses of s-alicin- in cachets every hour for the first twelve hours after the onset; «f the attack, and the same dose -every two hours for the next twelve bouts. Dr. Turner says: “I have never ordered any alcohol whatever in in* flueuza, either in this epidemic or in anv of the earlier ones. They did' not require it as far as I could gee. I have allowed convalescents to have some champagne or whisky because they have liked it, not because they haw needed it, and 1 have oulv done this when they have -asked me.