War, cholera, and the Ministry of Health. An appeal to Sir Benjamin Hall and the British people / By James John Garth Wilkinson.

  • Wilkinson, James John Garth, 1812-1899.
Date:
1854
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Credit: War, cholera, and the Ministry of Health. An appeal to Sir Benjamin Hall and the British people / By James John Garth Wilkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whilst administering the consolations of religion to those infected with cholera, he was shocked at the awful mor- tality that prevailed; and the idea of treating them ac- cording to the Homoeopathic system, with which he was already familial', occurred to him. His success was so great, that of 125 patients he lost but three. It would be easy to add to the above lists similar results from all the great towns of Europe and Ame- rica during the late invasions of cholera; but as one of the most certain and accessible, I commend you to the recent pamphlet by Dr. Charge of Marseilles, in which that physician shews the marked success, both for prevention and cure, which has attended the Homoeopathic means. In India also an amateur (see T7ie British Journal of Homoeopathy, July, 1854), has treated 629 cases of cholera, and accompanies his results with admirable statistics: the gross ratio of deaths being 30 per cent. The same good results have attended Homoeopathic treatment in these past weeks in the Homoeopathic Hospital in Golden Square; and also in the recent terrible attack of the pestilence at Barbadoes in the West Indies. One would have thought that facts like these, not alas marvellous in themselves, yet marvellously good in contrast with the deadly zero of the doctors, would have arrested the attention, and provoked the trial, of all professors of the art of healing. One would have thought that they would have deserted their old bog of failures, and tried the dry land to which Ho- moeopathy invites them on every side. On the con- trary, on they go from unsurety to unsurety, expe- rimenting in the same fruitless direction, and sedu- lously avoiding every path that professes to lead away b 3