1918: "Flu has killed its thousands, but Aspirin, Phenacetin and Morphine have killed their tens of thousands
1918: "Flu has killed its thousands, but Aspirin, Phenacetin and Morphine have killed their tens of thousands
And when these remedies fail, they turn, in desperation, to vaccines..."
Continuing on from my previous stack, introducing the overlooked potential of mass toxic drug use contributing to the death toll in 1918, I will transcribe another article here with provides support for the over drug use and a little more insight into those times.
My Horse-Shoe by Dr George W. Hopkins. Published page 108 of The Homoeopathic Recorder in 1919. You can download the entire 1919 publication - PDF HERE.
(Bold and links are mine, formatting changed for ease of reading, my comments added between quotes)
MY HORSE-SHOE.
Dr. George W. Hopkins, Cleveland, Ohio.
Thousands of people who perished from Spanish influenza were martyrs to the therapeutic ignorance of the dominant school of medicine.
As long as old-school colleges apologize for having chairs of Materia Medica, or even abandon such chairs entirely, their graduates must inevitably lose patients by thousands in the presence of any wide-spread, virulent epidemic.
Flu has killed its thousands, but Aspirin, Phenacetin and Morphine have killed their tens of thousands.
And when these remedies fail, they turn, in desperation, to vaccines,— immunizing vaccines, which don't immunize, and curative vaccines, which are almost murderous when applied during the only dangerous period of the disease.
A close study of the current vaccine literature is so confusing to the mind as to shake or destroy one's whole faith in vaccine therapy.
Mass vaccination took place immediately leading up to and during the 1918 influenza pandemic in both the public, but especially amongst the soldiers. All vaccines were bacterial based, as viruses were not discovered yet. I can’t imagine the quality control for these injections, for which they also didn’t use disposable needles.
One great authority on vaccines, however, has given us the clear-cut indications for the employment of vaccines which are so dear to thoughtful prescribers everywhere. [Ernst Edward ] Irons, writing in Forchheimer's Therapeusis, says that the employment of prophylactic vaccines has been fairly well established in four diseases.
He names typhoid fever [salmonella bacteria], plague [bacterium Yersinia pestis], cholera [bacterium Vibrio cholerae] and rabies [virus Rabies lyssavirus]
He says that infections are suitable for vaccine treatment provided.
( i) the infection is localized, i. e., confined to one or more isolated lesions, and not associated with bacteremia ;
('2) if they are more or less chronic in character, and
(3) if adequate surgical measures have been previously employed.
Compare these indications with the striking characteristics of Spanish iniluenza, an infection which is not localized, which is always associated with a profound bacteriemia, which is always essentially acute and which cannot have previous relief by adequate surgical measures. Irons further says that the employment of stock vaccines, incorporating a variety of germs and perhaps hundreds of strains of each organism, in the hope that some of the hundreds of varieties will "match the case," constitutes "shot-gun prescribing" of the worst kind.
He insists that an autogenous vaccine is the only kind that ever ought to be employed remedially, and that even this should not include all of the organisms present in the infection, but merely the predominating organism,—the single remedy, exactly fitted to the case —if you please.
Summarized, then, the employment of stock vaccines is only justified in immunizing against typhoid, plague, cholera and rabies, and the employment of autogenous vaccines only when the single predominating organism is used and the case is clearly one of localized infection, free from bacteriemia, chronic in character and previously well-treated surgically.
Following these indications there can only be one possible place for vaccines in the treatment of influenza and that would be among those who are having a tardy convalescence,—the class who are so beautifully relieved by good, old-fashioned Homoeopathy.
The writer highly values the work of Irons, which is the nearest thing to a "proving" of vaccines which has come to his notice.
Nothing could be more irritating to a physician than a lot of loose, careless talk by vaccine enthusiasts after he has lost members of his own family through anaphylaxis.
Clearly anaphylaxis is not a new phenomenon following vaccination, and if it was happening 100 years ago was is the commonality of the cause?
Some vaccines (tuberculins and others) are as powerful as Hydrocyanic acid [hydrogen cyanide] and should be used just as carefully.
Hydrocyanic acid or hydrogen cyanide was used in remedies for colds, coughs and consumption.1 As well as pesticide on gas form.2
Whatever may be the value of vaccines in other infections, they are far inferior to Homoeopathy in Spanish influenza. Nor is my allegiance to Homoeopathy blind.
The long, careful search for the indicated remedy in an acute, bacteriemic case of flu is almost as murderous, in my opinion, as the employment of Aspirin, Phenacetin and Morphine. The patient would often die. I am sure, before the ordinary Homoeopath, like myself, would find the exact similimum.
High-grade Homoeopathy is impossible for most of us in the midst of a great flu epidemic. Merely telling his story, it he could, would even further prostrate him.
The profoundly prostrated patient can often give us almost nothing in the way of subjective symptoms.
A careful study of his case would delay us so badly that half of our patients would die before we ever reached them.
From what I have come to understand (and correct me if I am wrong) the homeopath can only prescribe as best as the symptoms they can deduce from the patient.
If the patient has suppressed the disease with a drug, or they have been rendered unresponsive before the homeopath arrived then prescribing the correct remedy would be extremely hampered. The “influenza” disease of 1918 did seem to strike the victim down fast. But given all this, the homeopaths saved more than the allopaths.
"Influenza" Case Mortality Data from 1918 Pandemic. Homeopathy 1.035% compared to Regulars 30-50%.
Some simple, safe method is needed to instantly combat the profound toxaemia and matchless prostration of flu,—some great antidote to the poison which will pull the patient through the crisis to the place where we can get an intelligent history, make a careful laboratory examination, if necessary, and take all the time needed to analyze the case and study out the similimum which will certainly complete the cure.
Shall we reject this logic because it is un-homceopathic?
Even Mrs. Eddy was broad enough to say that sometimes her system would not work, that, under certain conditions "the temporary employment of material measures is justifiable."
Shall Homoeopaths be more narrow than Mrs. Eddy in their views ?
During the recent epidemic the writer employed, as a routine measure to antidote the toxaemia of flu, a combination of Strychnia and Capsicum, (Strychnia sulphate 1-600 grain, and Oleoresin capsicum 1-300 grain) every hour, or even oftener, if necessary.
In some cases which were apparently moribund at the first visit the remedy was injected hypodermically, as many as a dozen doses being injected at one time.
Well that’s a surprise!
Have you ever given a hypodermic of Capsicum?
It will almost make a mummy sit up and talk,—profanely, perhaps, but talk.
Give it in some flu case about the time the friends are looking over the telephone directory to get the undertaker's number ready. And don't be surprised if the patient asks for something to eat an hour or two later.
This line of treatment, followed by plain, unadulterated Homoeopathy, carried four hundred successive cases of flu, grippe and pneumonia through all the danger zones for me without a single death.
So I call it my horse-shoe.
Desparate times call for desparate measures? This is the first time I’ve heard of injecting a homeopathic remedy, but it saved 400 from death!
So my take away from this article is the illness (whatever the causal agent(s)) killed many, but the medical interventions did greater damage, but today, the public believes the 1918 death toll is all due to a pandemic virus!
Flu has killed its thousands, but
Aspirin, Phenacetin and Morphine have killed their tens of thousands.
Aspirin
See my recent stack about the overdosing of Aspirin
Phenacetin
Phenacetin, according to Wikipedia it is a pain-relieving and fever-reducing drug, which was widely used following its introduction in 1887, but was withdrawn from medicinal use as dangerous from the 1970s.
In 1918 they were ignorant to it’s danger!
Morphine
Morphine is a strong, addictive opioid used as a pain medication.
Morphine in conjunction with Midazolam was employed for use in the COVID-19 pandemic - and likely contributed to death of hundreds of thousands of elderly and those on ventilators. The side effects of morphine is breathing problems!
What I am yet to finalise with what additional drugs were employed by the orthodox physicion during 1918/19 when they encountered a case of “influenza”? Of the documents I have found so far it appears they were not anxious to disclose this information.
Today I’ll leave you with this…
The American public expected a quick fix
Homeppathic Recorder 1922
In this age, speed is the great desideratum, patience is a lost art, philosophy has been scattered by the winds of confusion and the ready-made, the substitute, the short-cut, the easiest way, are in the ascendant.
Small wonder that the American public in particular, worships at the shrine of such drugs as aspirin, antipyrin, phenacetin, etc., and fails to see that the ultimate result of such indiscriminate drugging is bound to be disastrous.
It is axiomatic in homoeopathic practice that the more severely painful and acute the condition, the more quickly can it be relieved…
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