For several year now I’ve been trying to understand what happened during the 1918 pandemic, the pandemic we’re supposed to be so fearful will repeat.
My journey into the historical documents awakened me to the role that aspirin likely played in causing the high death toll in 1918-19, deaths that were attributed to “influenza” or pneumonia. Eye witnesses accounts from the time revealed that there was a bad flu going around, but the medical interventions of the time were more deadly, especially the over-the-counter drug Aspirin, which was said to have killed more tham did the “grippe”.
Dr Clare Craig happened to mention the death by toxic doses of aspirin, though didn’t provide a reference in her interview. I don’t have her book…yet.
But just today I came across a 2009 paper by Dr Karen Starko who hypothesises the tragic role Salicylates (aspirin) likely played in the 1918 death toll. She wrote the first publications about Reye syndrome in the early 1980’s, which identified aspirin as the major contributor to death in kids following influenza and other infections. So her knowledge on the topic of aspirin toxicity from symptoms to typical autopsy findings, together with her research led her to hypothesise aspirins role in the 1918 pandemic.
The hypothesis presented herein is that salicylate therapy for influenza during the 1918–1919 pandemic resulted in toxicity and pulmonary edema, which contributed to the incidence and severity of early ARDS-like lungs, subsequent bacterial infection, and overall mortality. Pharmacokinetic data, which were unavailable in 1918, indicate that the aspirin regimens recommended for the “Spanish influenza” predispose to severe pulmonary toxicity.
Four lines of evidence support the role of salicylate intoxication in 1918 influenza mortality: pharmacokinetics, mechanism of action, pathology, and the spate of official recommendations for toxic regimens of aspirin immediately before the October 1918 death spike.
In the paper she describes the “confluence of events” that “created a ‘perfect storm’ for widespread salicylate toxicity”. It’s packed with information that I’m sure the establishment doesn’t want us to know or believe. Her evidence adds further support to the eye witness accounts from the day. You can read the paper HERE.
November 15, 2009 - Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 9: Salicylates and Pandemic Influenza Mortality, 1918–1919 Pharmacology, Pathology, and Historic Evidence by Karen M. Starko
Logging 1918 Pandemic data points
At Totality of Evidence I have been logging data points relating to the history of the 1918 pandemic leading up to today. The toxic medical interventions of the day, including aspirin, plus mass vaccination with “bacterial soup”, poor nutrition and sanitation, together with the stress of war and fear of the killer “Spanish Flu”, all contributed to the high death statistics. Can we trust the cause of death statistics of the time? How many deaths should have been iatrogenic? Death by aspirin overdose?
That’s all for today…
Nicely put, thank you!
May I point you in the direction of the 1921 paper
'Homeopathy in Influenza - a chorus of fifty in Harmony'
(available from https://www.ecampnd.com/homeopathy/A_Chorus_of_Fifty_in_Harmony.pdf )
which lends additional weight to your outlined points.
And, for more on the power of correctly prescribed homeopathy (I hope it's ok to pop this in here)
https://sarahpenrose.substack.com/p/homeopathy-and-the-epidemic-genius
Good work - keep it up!
Sarah
So many iatragenic events, so little time to expose them all. Thank you for exposing the possibility that aspirin overdoses combined with other factors, could have made the 1918 "Spanish flu" so much more deadly. The similarities to the COVID crisis are downright spooky.
I found some current references to aspirin poisoning in Wikipedia that might be relevant:
* Main article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylate_poisoning.
* Severity chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylate_poisoning#Severity
* No antidote to poisoning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylate_poisoning#Treatment
Excerpts (but read the entire article, as it's quite good and appears free of political bias):
"Salicylate poisoning, also known as aspirin poisoning, is the acute or chronic poisoning with a salicylate such as aspirin. The classic symptoms are ringing in the ears, nausea, abdominal pain, and a fast breathing rate. Early on, these may be subtle, while larger doses may result in fever. Complications can include swelling of the brain or lungs, seizures, low blood sugar, or cardiac arrest."
"The toxic effects of salicylates have been described since at least 1877. In 2004, more than 20,000 cases with 43 deaths were reported in the United States. About 1% of those with an acute overdose die, while chronic overdoses may have severe outcomes. Older people are at higher risks of toxicity for any given dose."
Thanks, Jack, for having our back!