Cholera; its treatment at the present crisis, or statistics touching the results of the treatment of Asiatic cholera by the three great branches of the medical profession, the homœopathic, the hydropathic, and the allopathic. In a letter, written at the request of the Health Committee of the Borough of Sheffield / by S. Eadon.

  • Eadon, Samuel.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Cholera; its treatment at the present crisis, or statistics touching the results of the treatment of Asiatic cholera by the three great branches of the medical profession, the homœopathic, the hydropathic, and the allopathic. In a letter, written at the request of the Health Committee of the Borough of Sheffield / by S. Eadon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    xiomceopatliy the per centage was 8, 8J, 6£, in Europe ; and in America, from 2| to 3^ per cent. With Allopathy, we have 22f, 32f, 54 per cent., and even higher. It requires no prophet’s eye to fore tel, that a great change will come over the Medical pro- fession. Agreeable or not, nolentes, volentes, the principle, similia similibus curantur,” will be ultimately the key-stone in the great arch of Medical Science. It is in pestilences like these, that stalk the earth with fearful march, desolating our towns, and decimating our cities, that Hy- dropathy and Homoeopathy will pursue their glorious march hand in hand, absorbing disease on the one hand, and restoring to very buoyancy of Health on the other; proving by their brilliant tri- umphs, that as Society advances in refinement and intelligence, and the Nervous System, by virtue of Education and exercise, takes the ascendant over the Muscular and the grosser parts of human nature, a more simple, natural, and Hygienic mode of meeting deviations from disturbed nervous and, consequently, blood-circulating equilibrium, must of necessity be made use of. Allopathy has attacked man, as a huge, ponderous, muscular, sort of animal, that could stand bleeding and cauterizing, and purging ad libitum. This kind of man has passed away, if ever he were in existence. The muscles have become more absorbed into the nervous element, and the appliances of cure will be more the spirit of a drug than the crude-drug mass itself; and given too, not at hop-hazard, but in accordance with a beautiful and unerring law of nature. This kind of treatment, along with God’s natural physic. Water, in its wonderfully diversified rela- tionships, will constitute the enlightened modes of medical prac- tice in the coming times. Here then, in Homeopathy, is another sheet-anchor for the people. Again we say, in comparing the statistics of the Homoeopathic and the Allopathic modes of cure— “ Look on that picture and on this. In Newcastle, the people were last year treated according to the Allopathic methods; with what results the bills of mortality show. Now, as the Cholera has reached Sheffield, the question for the Town Authorities is—“ How are the people here to be treated p” The rich will, of course, take the liberty of employ- ing those whom they think fit; if a wrong selection be made, they alone will have to pay the penalty in their own persons or in those of their families. But with the people !—the masses—what methods are to be adopted and sanctioned ? Will the Govern- ment, through the Local Boards of Health, adhere to the old phy- sic party, and give no countenance or scope to the other two great branches of the profession P This is a grave question, as the lives of thousands may depend on a correct answer. Is a one-