Bond poison and hot toddies used to treat ‘Spanish Flu’
Strychnine, the assassin’s poison of choice in James Bond, was just one of the strange but dangerous remedies administered by doctors to treat ‘Spanish Flu’ a century ago.
The virus claimed more than 20,000 lives in Ireland, and infected 800,000. Its devastating impact is captured in The Enemy Within: The Spanish Flu in Ireland 1918-19, a new exhibition which opens today at the National Museum of Country Life in Mayo.
