CURE FOR INFLUENZA

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3467, 17 May 1934, Page 6

CURE FOR INFLUENZA

LONDON DOCTOR’S CLAIM Influenza, one of the most baffling diseases of modern times, may soon be conquered for ever if a startling experiment now being conducted by a Harley Street doctor proves successful. The only thing he is using in these experiments is an ordinary housewife’s needle. With this needle the doctor hopes to prove to the rest of the world that ’flu can be cured within a few minutes. “There is really nothing very new in the idea,” he told a Sunday Chronicle reporter, except as applied to ’flu. But in this direction I think I shall be successful. “The theory of needle therapy, on which I have based my experiments, i s actually of Chinese origin and is nearly 5000 years old. The system was recently revised by Dr. P. Ferreyrolles, the famous French physician. Already needle therapy has treated successfully thousands of hitherto incurable cases of muscular and nervous afflictions. The patients have been relieved from pain within a few seconds after application of the needles, and after a further short period of treatment have been permanently cured. “Briefly, all that has to be done is to insert needles, preferably made of gold or silver, into the body so that certain nerves or combinations of nerves are pierced for varying lengths of time. I am working on the assumption that ’flu is primarily a state of nervous disorder. “If I can prove this to be so, then it will not be long before needle therapy will be accepted all over the world as the only effective cure for it.”