A. Midgley Cash However, judging by the clearly indicated constitutional tendency of the lady, I prescribed a course of Bryonia, with the most satisfactory results. The threatening condition quite cleared up. The lumps dissolved, and the lady lived for many years afterwards, without to my knowledge any return of the disease.
Let us look at the history of the subject in our own country and at a date nearer our own time. In Labrador and Newfoundland the main food is white bread, tea stewed in the pot till black, fish occasionally, a little margarine and molasses. Such were the characters on whom teachers and students depended for the subjects of that Time.
Had the Act alluded to been in force, the law would have taken upon itself this responsibility, but as it did not exist here the name “Influenza” came in conveniently and everyone was satisfied and pacified, except myself who wanted to get at the true nature of the illness.