Homopathy ; the science of therapeutics : a collection of papers elucidating and illustrating the principles of homopathy / by Carroll Dunham.

  • Carroll Dunham
Date:
1877
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    In 1836 cholera visited Vienna a second time. The prac- tice of Homoeopathy was at that time forbidden in Austria, but permission was obtained to open a Homoeopathic Cholera Hospital. I state the result in the words of Mr. Wilde, of Dublin, the distinguished aural and ophthalmic surgeon, who is no friend to Homoeopathy. He says:1 Upon comparing the report made [by the government inspector, 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. Fleischmann (homoeopathic) recovered, two-thirds of those treated by the ordinary methods, in other hospitals, died. This very extra- ordinary result led Count Kolowrat, Minister 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 treatment of cholera. In Paris, in 1848-50, Dr. Tessier, in the Hospital St. Marguerite (Hotel Dieu, annexe), treated cholera patients in his wards homceopathically. The general report, made, not by Tessier, but by allopathists, gives for his wards a mor- tality from cholera of 34^ per cent., while in the other wards and hospitals the mortality was 5 7 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 Com- mons, it was noticed that the returnsof the homoeopathic prac- titioners and of the London Homoeopathic Hospital were not included in it. The House of Commons thereupon called for these rejected returns, and they were presented in a sepa- rate report, entitled Return to an Address of Hon. House 1 Austria and its Institutions, p. 275.