A Note on the Value of Iodine Intravenously in the Treatment of Influenza

During the month of June 1925, there occurred at this Jail an epidemic of influenza resulting in the admission of 66 cases to hospital within in a short period. All the cases were of the typical acute catarrhal variety (respiratory type) of the disease. Twelve cases were complicated by lung conditions, pleuro-pneumonia or bronchopneumonia. There were no deaths. My attention having been drawn to the value of iodine intravenously in septic conditions, the method was given a trial in the very severe cases when the usual remedies, e.g., sodium salicylate, cinchona, etc., had little or no effect. The severe cases were those in which the temperature continued very high causing delirium and prostration or were complicated by an under-