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Doctors in 1918 tried high dose aspirin, quinine, arsenic, camphor oil, digitalis, strychnine, Epsom salts and castor oil, and when none of these helped, fell back on bloodletting.
They had to âvigorously oppose the idea taking root that alcohol in high doses protects against influenzaâ
Itâs possible the injections of mercury then used to treat syphilis might have worked but then you got mercury poisoning instead of flu.
Dr. Kilmerâs Swamp Root was a bestseller 
Yâall medicine was wiiiillllld back in the day (the experiment proved it was a virus causing the flu, not a bacteria)
They didnât know what a virus was back then...they just knew it was smaller than bacteria...they werenât visualized until the invention of the electron microscope in the 1930s.
This dude went to Alaska to one of the mass flu graves and dig up an old lung sample from the permafrost (after asking permission) so we got our first full genetic look at the 1918 flu in 2005 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291398/
They recreated it in a level 4 lab!
Heyyyy there....
Was encephalitis lethargica a consequence of pandemic flu? My great aunt Corinna died of the flu...my great uncle Billy (different side of the family) contracted EL in his late teens and was institutionalized for the rest of his short life. https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/8/2246/3970828
So this book makes the point that Donald Trumpâs fortune is derived from the life insurance money that was paid out and invested after his grandfather died of the flu. 
The higher the death rate, the bigger the economic boom post-flu 
