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Credit: Cholera / by Carroll Dunham. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![In 1836 cholera visited Vienna a second time. The practice of Homoeopathy was at that time forbidden in Austria, but permis- sion was obtained to open a Homoeopathic Cholera Hospital. I state the result in the words of Mr. Wilde, of Dublin, the distin- guished aural and ophthalmic surgeon, who is no friend to Ho- moeopathy. He says (Austria and its Institutions, p. 2*15): Upon comparing the report made [by the Government Inspect- or, who visited the hospital daily] of the treatment of cholera in this hospital with that of the same epidemic in the other hospitals of Vienna at a similar time, it appeared that while two-thirds of those treated by Dr. Pleischmann (homoeopathic) recovered, tivo- thirds of those treated by the ordinary methods, in other hospitals, died. This very extraordinary result led Count Kolowrat, Minis- ter of the Interior, to repeal the law relative to the practice of Homoeopathy Thus the very fact that the practice of Homoeopathy has been sanctioned by law in Austria, since 1836, is an eternal monument and testimony to the superior success of the homoeopathic treat- ment of cholera. In Paris, in 1848-50, Dr. Tessier, in the Hospital St. Marguerite (Hotel Dieu, annexe), treated cholera patients in his wards ho- moeopathically. The general report, made, not by Tessier, but by Allopathists, gives for his wards a mortality from cholera of 34^ per cent., while in the other wards and hospitals the mortality was 51 per cent. In 1854, in Great Britain, Government established a Medical Council to gather returns of the treatment and mortality of cholera under every method, and to report to Parliament. When the report was submitted to the House of Commons, it was noticed that the returns of the homoeopathic practitioners and of the London Homoeopathic Hospital were not included in it. The House of Commons thereupon called for these rejected re- turns, and they were presented in a separate report, entitled Return to an Address of Hon. House of Commons, dated May 11, 1855 ; for — copies of any letters ; * * together with copies of any returns that have been rejected by the Medical Council. This return gives the statistics of the London Homoeopathic Hospital, attested by Dr. McLoughlin, an eminent allopathic phy- sician, who was government inspector of cholera hospitals, by ap- pointment of the same Medical Council which rejected the returns! The mortality of cholera in the Homoeopathic Hospital was 16.4 per cent. Under allopathic treatment, during the same epidemic, the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21050193_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
