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Taihape Daily Times, 22 March 1919, Page 5

ALCOHOL.

Its Great Value

DURING THE RECENT EPIDEMIC

IMPORTANT TESTIMONY BY D'R FYFFE.

Giving evidence before the Influenza Epidemic Commission on Thursday, 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 I am bound to say it was the only drug that was any use at all. A very strong stimulant treatment was required, and alcohol did not make the patient sick. It reduces tho temperature, and it saved a large number of lives. It was given in various ways —by brandy packs, by tho 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 hrandy, 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 jot double pneumonia.

"I think the most valuable drug we 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 Denniston): What are the other drugs used?

Dr Fyffe: Ammonia, ether and strychnine can be used, hut my own experience was that nothing coutt come near alcohol in its effect, not only in treating the disease, but generally. I think, as a matter of fact, the people who took a little alcohol —in moderation, of course—did not not get the disease. That was my general experience. Mr D. McLaren: What about 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, he would as a rule ; die right out: but the man who to>k it in moderation had the advantage. A man -who took a reason&UTe amouot of alcohol—tw r o or three whiskies a day—did not get the disease so roadHy as other people. I take alcohol myself, and could not have got through the epulemic without it. In ray general practice i hav3 found that a moderate drinker does not get these acute diseases in fit* same way as a man who does not conch It. That is my experience Advt

Be judge and jury <and give NAZOL a trial. There can be only one verdict —'Absolutely competent to cure colds. influenza. bronchitis and nasal catarrh'' 3