Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1920 — INFLUENZA AND PNEUMONIA [ARTICLE]

INFLUENZA AND PNEUMONIA

Management as Practiced by Dr. Maloy, a Former Rensselaerian. Dr. Benrad S. Maloy, now of Chicago, but a former Rensselaer boy and a son of Mrs. James Maloy of this city, is the author of an article on “Influenza and Pneumonia, Management and Treatment,’ ’ which was read before the American Public Health association In Chicago during the general sessions, and given to the American Journal of Public Health. It appeared in tjjat journal for November, 1919, and also was printed in the Chicago -Medical Recorder for October, 1919. However, before the article appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Medicine (December, 1919) it had received various revisions, so that it is, in part, a new paper. The paper is too lengthy, of course, for The Democrat to publish in full. Dr. Maloy has been very successful with his imode of treatment as set out therein and says: “Last winter, in one town of two thousand Inhabitants during a period of four weeks, the local physicians lost nineteen pneumonia patients, while my pneumonia patients numbered only six during that same four weeks and all recovered.” 1 There is another epidemic, of influenza going over the country now, but thus far it has been In quite a mild form. Influenza is a frequent forerunner of pneumonia and even though the attack or the former is mild it should not be neglected.