Influenza: Brief Comments - McCann, Hayes, Dyment, Hawes

(Reference: The Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Feb 1919, Vol XI, No 8 pp 845-846)

Dr T.A. McCann, MD, Dayton, Ohio
Dr McCann treated 1000 cases of influenza. He wrote “I have the records to show my work. I have no losses. I want no credit given to me for these results. It is only another undeniable testimony of the efficacy of homeopathic drugs carefully administered… Given an individual with a fair degree of health when stricken with this malady, there is no reasonable excuse for a homeopathic physician losing a single case…Typical symptoms uncomplicated are covered by four remedies viz., Gelsemium, Bryonia, Eupatorium, Arsenicum.. It has been universal practice to give the juice of one orange with white of one egg every 3 hours for the first two days…patient must be kept in bed, quiet during whole progress of disease not even allowed to sit up until two days after all signs of fever have disappeared…then gradually allowed an increased diet depending on degree of prostration.”

Dr Philip Dyment, MD, California
Dr Dyment commented it was called the Spanish flu because “ it originated in Spain but from my data one would be justifiable to claim that it originated in the Orient as German writers speak of cases on the eastern front in the summer of 1917. By April 1918 there were cases on the western front, in May thirty percent of Spain had been attacked, while it was prevalent in England during the same month. It reached its heights in Germany in June-July and arrived on our eastern coast in August and on this coast by September. Many other pandemics of a similar nature have occurred in the past, commonly originating in the East as severe epidemics and moving westward along the trade routes. The pandemic of 1889-90 started in the far east in the spring of 1889, reached Moscow in September, Petrograd in October, Berlin in mid November, London a month later.”

Dr A. B. Hawes, MD, South Dakota
Treated 267 cases with two indicated remedies commencing with the onset of fever and had not a single case of pneumonia or death. Of 19 who didn’t take the medicines from the onset of the fever, but called when they had a relapse, two had broncho-pneumonia both recovered. Two cases had pneumonia, one died. One case had endocarditis and died, one case of pleurisy recovered.