I’m reposting a post of mine from PFI to here. Enjoy…. ____
I found some amazing things in that chapter. One is near the end of the chapter where he writes of another doctor who experiments on 4 panflu victims and cures them (not iodine related but amazing none the less), but this experiment wasn’t done until near the end of the pandemic. Here’s an excerpt (his page 95):
That serum treatment may possibly be of great value in future cases seems indicated by Dr. Huff-Hewitt’s experiences. He reported four cases in the British Medical Journal for May 10th, 1919, page 575. His treatment needs trial in a very much larger number before one can give a final opinion upon its value, but it strikes one as being fraught with great possibili- ties. Briefly, it consisted in obtaining blood by the syringeful from a patient recently convalescent from a moderately severe attack of the disease, allowing it to clot and then injecting the resultant serum subcutaneously into the patient who is severely ill. In his case it was a convalescent mother who thus gave her serum to her child, and the latter though extremely ill at the time, forthwith improved and made a good recovery. The same result ensued in three other very serious cases treated in the same way, and one admires the resourcefulness of the practitioner who carried out this treatment without any labora- tory to help him. It was not until the epidemic was over that one saw his publication, and one did not test the treatment oneself, but the possible value of making use of serum from convalescent individuals in the treatment of other patients still acutely ill seems clear, ‘’‘and one would advocate further use of the method in any future epidemic in the hope that thereby some more or less specific remedy will have been discovered for that which throughout the epidemic of 1918–19 baffled all other forms of treatment’‘’ when once the “ pneumonic “ type of the disease had obtained a strong hold upon the patient
There is a ton of info there…
Sidescroll alert!!!? — 14 December 2006, 07:05
I did’nt see that space. Darn!
Thanks Pogge for fixing that!
I backtracked the web address and found the main page for the book. It list the table of contents, and it has a searchable feature to it. You can also download the entire book as one file (15MB) from here:
