"                        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


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