DaveGinOly in reply to ztakddot. | September 5, 2025 at 1:32 am
A portion of deaths during the “Spanish” flu pandemic were almost certainly iatrogenic. Patients, many of them young soldiers, were treated with what we now know were fatally toxic doses of the miracle drug of the day – aspirin. Modern analysis of the day’s post mortems show many deaths displaying characteristics of salicylate poisoning – pneumonia-like wet and hemorrhaging lungs.

lichau in reply to DaveGinOly. | September 6, 2025 at 3:51 pm
Bingo.
I read that they were absolutely pounding aspirin. 20g/day or more.