Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1919 — CURE FOR INFLUENZA AND PNEUMONIA ANNOUNCED. [ARTICLE]

CURE FOR INFLUENZA AND PNEUMONIA ANNOUNCED.

Influenza and pneumonia are no more to be feared than a boil on the back of the neck, according to Dr. Charles H. Duncan, one of the founders of the volunteer hospital, in a recent address at New “York before the convention of Allied Medical associations of America. He declared his method of combating Spanish influenza was by means o's “immunizing a patient with his own poison.” Upon twenty-four patients ill with pneumonia and influenza last winter, Dr. Duncan said, he had used the treatment “without a single fatality or any complications.” “Briefly,” the physician said, “I take one drachm of mucous from the infected area and pasteurize it in one ounce of filtered water where it remains several hours. One cubic Centimeter of this toxine, injected subcutaneously, will effect a spontaneous cure of Spanish influenza, pneumonia, catarrh, or any similar localized infection. It will stop any cough, except tuberculosis, inside of twenty-four hours.”