An answer to the homoeopathic delusions of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes / by Charles Neidhard.

  • Neidhard, C. (Charles), 1809-1895.
Date:
1842
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Credit: An answer to the homoeopathic delusions of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes / by Charles Neidhard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fully investigated all its phenomena, without troubling itself about its hidden cause, and prescribed such specific medicines as were indicated in its particular stages, the Camphor in the commencement, and Cuprum, Veratrum, Arsenic,etc., accord- ing to the predominating symptoms ; or Acid Phosph. in the so called cholerine, etc. etc. Its grand therapeutic law always enabled it to discover the specific for each particular case, and whilst among the physicians of the old school, the greatest diversity of opinion and treatment prevailed, there reigned among the Homoeopathists, who were guided by the law of specifics, a complete unanimity, from Quin of Lon- don, to Spohr, of Gandersheim. The consequence was, that whilst the physicians of the old school lost nearly one- half of their patients, the new school, even when cholera was at its height, lost only from 10 to 20 per cent., and some- times even less. Ji few extracts from authenticated government documents of some (decided) cases of Jisiatic Cholera, treated ac- cording to the Specific Method. At Raab, in Hungary, by Dr. Jos. de Bagody, of 154 cases of Cholerine, 2 died; and of 148 cases of Asiatic Cholera, at its height, 6 died. Dr. Veith, of Vienna, did not lose one patient out of 50; and his brother, Professor Veith, not one out of 45, during the whole epidemic. At Trieste, out of 50 Cholera patients, 47 were cured. At Botzen,Roveredo, Oberlan near Vienna, similar results were obtained. These accounts seem to be more favourable, if we|com- pare with them the official government reports of the com- mon methods at Munich and other places, according to which, in the former place, out of 1,264 patients, 553 died, 472 were cured, and 239 still remained under treatment. In the cholera hospital of Gumpendorf, at Vienna, out of 728 cases, only 438 patients were cured ! It is of course very easy for the author to deny the authen-