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Taihape Daily Times, 21 March 1919, Page 5

ALCOHOL. Its Great Value DURING THE RECENT EPIDEMIC IMPORTANT TESTIMONY BY DR. FYFFE. Giving evidence before the influenza Epidemic Commission on Tliursda>; Dr. W. Kington Fyffe, president of the British Medical Association, made the following remarks with reference to the utility of alcohol: “I should like to say a word,’-' continued the witness, “in regard to alcohol 1 am hound to say it was the only drug |hat -was any use at all.’A very strong sHhidlant treatment was required, and alcohol did not make the patient sick. Alt reduces the temperature, and it saved a large number of lives. It was given in various ways —by brandy packs, by the mug, and also hypodermically^ One of the worst cases was a girl who I thought could not possibly live an hour. She was injected with five centimetres of brandy, and a brandy pack was given. There was immediately a drop in the temperature from .103 to below 100. After each injection of brandy there was a drop in the temperature until it came down to normal, and the girl recovered. That was a case .of double pneumonia. “I think the most valuable drug wo had during the epidemic was alcohol ■ not only to reduce the temperature but to keep the strength of the patient up.” The Chairman (Sir John Dennistou): What are the other drugs used? Dr Fyffe: Ammonia, ether and strychnine can be used, but my own experience was that nothing could come near alcohol in its effect, not only in treating the. disease, but generally. I think, as a matter of fast, the people who took a little alcohol —iii moderation, ,of course—did not not get the disease. That was ray general experience Mr D. McLaren: Wha: &bout those who took alcohol habitually to any extent? How would they suffer from the disease? Dr Fyffe: Of course, if a man was a habitual soaker, be would as a rule, die right out; but the man who took it in moderation had the advantage. A man who took a reasonable amount of alcohol—two or throe whiskies a day—did not get the disease so readily a s other people. I take alcohol myself, and could not have got through the epuleraic without it In my general practice x have found that a moderate drinker does not get these acute diseases in the same way as a man who does not touch It. That is my experience — Advt.

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