The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-02-02
INFLUENZA PREVENTIVE
SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE
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To protect, save the annoyance.
avoid the danger and the awful NOR
tality of the FLU requires simply
/ just that attention that routine care
requires to keep yourself in a good
sanitary condition.
! Last year sent a letter to a dis
ttinguished friend of mine, in fact, one
| of the most prominent men in Florida
| AS he is humanitarian at heart he
quickly published the same knowing
| that / was indifferent to such an an
nouncement as / had withdrawn from
active practice many years ago. 1t
was in 1872 when 1 began practice in
Akron. / was Immediately initiated
into a general spread of what was de-
nominated ..epizootic.'' 1t was as con-
tagious then as it is now under the
name flu All sorts of remedies and
nose sprays We're used. / am not pre-
pared to say with what efficacy. There
is in the span of my active practice a
line of facts well substantiated that
this is a germ diseases, as is the La
Grippe, epizootic or the flu, which may
be a difference in degree and not in
kind the same requirements for treat
ment being the same. AS a throat
specialist trained in Herman knappS
School of Opthalmology, Otology and
jLaryngology, the New York Eye and
Ear and the Manhattan, 1 have been
familiar with the methods of the
greatest schools on these line, so all
of the various sprays and treatments
have been tested with questionable re-
suits.
When I note the confessed results of
the treatment for re-yisiting of the
unwelcome flu, noting the awful NOR
tality, especially in pneumonia, it ap
pears to me that any suggestion which
involves no danger, prevents the
spread of the infection, should be con-
sidered by newspapers, public Off
GERS of authority, who have nothing to
recommend but handkerchief to the
nose. which handkerchief will contain
millions of the germs throw into the
atmosphere in the speckS of lint dis
seminated by every use of the hand
kerchief. These germs are let loose
in all of their activity and yirulence.
After you have noted the great NOR
/, tally of the disease in question in
stead of the ridiculous treatment adj
vised, try what was tested last season
on my recommendation expressed in
the Florida papers and in California
! through friends.
My discovery of this treatment was
accidental. In trying an oil spray
years ago, 1 noticed that instead of
getting these influenza attacks imme-
diately following the treatment, l had
ceased to be infected with them which
formerly carried me into a laryngitis,
then bronchitis of a septic nature re-
curing many weeks to disappear.
Cresoline, inhalation of Eucalyptus
vapor, and rock and rye-now a thing
of the past-were tried, the latter
quite fascinating. / am giving these
facts to show the utter rot of the or
binary recommendations and isolated
treatment as carried out from the for
UNI of official reference.
Hundreds of lives were saved in
Florida last year by the line of
treatment re-stated. 1t means that it
should be followed up sick or well with
the regularity of the use of a hygenic
tooth brush and to get rid of mouth
germs the tongue should always be
brushed with antiseptic solutions.
The failure of previous treat
ments suggested is due to the
fact that drugs not in oil solution used
as sprays will not destroy the germs.
Oil inhibits the growth of them. That
is why if a medicated oil spray is
used Systematically at least morning
and evening, more frequently under
marked exposure, so that the mucous
membrane has the spider netting of
oil. as it were, the germ will not gain |
admittance into the circulation, thus
avoiding systemic infection. This |
treatment cuts out the doctors pre- |
vent nose colds and the extension of I
the flu, which causes pneumonia.
Go to any drug store and get two !
Of 70, xx-l,i f.l,
add one dram of Eucalyptus oil. If |
too irritating, double the oil or divide !,
the Eucalyptus. Use any oil spray.