" What caused the patient's death? Was it the original flu virus, or was it the use of Aspirin to lower the flu fever which then shutdown the patients own immune system response? Obviously, the latter. So how did this cause the massive rapid spread of the 1918 Flu?"
The Gazette is justly making a case against the use of Aspirin for the treatment of fever, the bodies natural defense system. However, attributing the spread to the invention of the telephone is preposterous. How would one account for the Eskimos or remote, primitive Pacific Islands people who when infected died and had no "Aspirin" or telephones. I have no love of the Pharma companies predatory profiteering at the expense of human life but it does seem that brother jonathan article is just as embellished with hypothetical and inaccurate statements accounting for the spread of the virus. 1918 was a time of "heroic" medicine whereby physicians tried every possible known remedy from bleeding to injecting typhoid, mustard plaster, strychnine, mercuric chloride, creosote, digitalis and Quinine into patients, nothing worked regardless of the outlandish recommendations. The use of Aspirin was actually discouraged by one doctors belief that the body if alkaline would be a poor vestibule for bacteria (which at the time was thought to be the primary cause of the flu) and tried to turn the entire body alkaline with the use of sodium bicarbonate and potassium citrate. Tamiflu would be considered a heroic measure 88 years later in spite of sciences advancement. Homeopathics are mentioned......they used within their small community the herbal drug gelsemium and still had a 1.05 percent mortality rate. Most of their reporting was empirical and unverifiable. Their redeeming advice was to avoid Aspirin which they considered poison. To this day, imho, they remain vindicated for their wisdom. The only truth is that human beings are at the mercy of mother nature. Perhaps she knows when to do house cleaning, like she does in the forests with fires and seasonal hurricanes, she knows when her resources are being overburdened, overtaxed and abused. The most unfortunate reality is that unlike people, she does not discriminate. There are certain things happening today, uniquely similar to what occurred in 1918. The analogies are glaring. Namely, the suppression of information, lots of useless disinformation, press and governmental censorship. We were at war then, troop shortages were paramount, we are at war now. Matter of fact.......there has never been a historical cycle when people have not engaged in some form of warfare and aggression. There is one war mankind may never win. The forces of Nature. After epidemics survivors walk away licking their wounds thinking the will be better prepared for the next round. Regards, Carol Ann Acmeair <res00...@gte.net> wrote: starshar wrote: > From: "Acmeair" > Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:43 PM > > >> i read an older report on this, and it should be in the archives >> (????) that aspirin had just come out, and was used as a miracle >> medicine on the wounded of WW1, and was used to break the fevers of >> the infected wounded. they apparently had great success in breaking >> the fever, but the fever causing infection would return, after a >> short period, and the infection bloomed. then came the vacinations >> for the "flu". if i recall correctly,doctors that treated all their >> patients, but did not use the vaccines, lost very few patients. > > > *** > Here's where I first read about the aspirin connection: > > http://www.brojon.org/frontpage/murdermedicine1.html > > Sharon > > *** ms sharon, thank you for this posting. this apparently is the basis for the report that i had read. the first part of the report doesn't look familiar, but the middle part, relating to how the info and recommendation of using "aspirin" was right on. someone had taken this report, and had apparently studied the progression of the use of aspirin, and the spread of the disease, and had studied the case history of doctors (mainly from n.y. state) that had very successful teatments of this "disease" with their own patients. the glaring fact was that each doctor had not used the vaccine in their protocol. this fact, suggests to me, that the money was more important to the Pharma's than the well being than the american citizen. let us say thank you to our protectors, the FDA. does any one have the recollection of the extension of this report????? thanks again, to all of us who care, jim -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour Carol Ann _______________________________ The Pessimist complains about the Wind; The Optimist expects it to change; The Realist adjusts the Sails. - The world needs more sailors. --------------------------------- Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.