INFLUENZA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2015, 14 August 1919, Page 4

INFLUENZA.

A New York message published in Iho Springfield Republican on 17th June .staled:—lnfluenza and pneumonia are no more to be feared than a boil on the back of your neck, according to Dr. Charles H, Duncan, one of the founders of the volunteer hospital, who, in an address here to-day before the convention of the Allied Medical Associations of America, described his method of combating Spanish influenza by means of “immunising a patient to his own poison.” Upon 24(j patients ill with pneumonia and influenza last winter, Dr. Duncan said, he had used the treatment without a single fatality or any complications. “Briefly,” the physician said, “I take one drachm of mucus from the infected area and pasteurise it in one ounce of filtered water, where it remains several hours. One cubic centimetre of this toxine, injected subcutaneously, will effect a spontaneous cure of Spanish influenza, pneumonia, catarrh, or any similar localised infection. It will stop any cough, except tuberculosis, inside 24 hours.” Dr. Duncan said he had been using the method, which he calls “autotherapy,” for about ten years, and that it was now widely accepted by the leading schools of medicine, although it had not been endorsed by the American Medical Association,