COMBATING INFLUENZA

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 15

COMBATING INFLUENZA

CLAIMS FOR NEW DRUG

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 18th October.

A new treatment for influenza is described by Dr. Raymond M. Pearee, of Halifax, in the current number of tho British Medical Journal.

During the epidemic of last spring JJr. Pcarce made a systematic test of the advantages of treating influenza by mtra-muscular injections of a drug which he calls "S.U.P. 36," but whose lull chemical name is "parabenzoyl-para-ammo-benzoyl-amino-naphthol 3-6 sodium sulphonate." -Dr. Pearee is persuaded, as a result of his tests, that the early initial doso completely aborts the attack in nearly every case, and that if the treatment be used in influenza epidemics on a wholesale scale and early enough, it is a valuable combative agent. Further, if the treatment is administered in tho ater stages, provided that the attack has not existed for more than 48 hours, it considerably reduces the duration of the disease, and that it may reduce the liability to complications. «.Dr" pearce noted that in the case of those who were treated by the drug the duration of the fever was reduced on an average from 2.8 days to 1.4 days, the headaches from g.l days to 1 day muscular pain from 3.4 days to 13 days the number of days in bed from 0./ to J.B, and the average number of days off work from 16.0 to 6 9 _ One peculiarity arising from the injection was the complete absence of perspiration during the abatement of the. lever. Tho dryness of the skin was conspicuous also in several cases of pneumonia which Dr. Pearee submitted to the treatment. He is trying ££ «£££" cure for purely ehlonia