Homoeopathy fairly represented : a reply to Professor Simpson's "Homoeopathy" misrepresented / by William Henderson.

  • Henderson, William, 1810-1872.
Date:
1854
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    we can afford to give them a liberal drawback on the actual mortality of their practice. What follows regarding pneumonia in this Chapter was published by me in much the same form in the British Journal of Homoeopathy for October 1852. Dr. Simpson has taken care not to meddle with it, though he is well acquainted with the Journal. In comparing the allopathic and homoeopathic methods in the treatment of pneumonia, it is not my intention to enter at great length on the subject, or to bring together all or nearly all the statistical details that may have been more or less fully given on both sides. The task I have proposed to myself is much less laborious and extensive. I intend chiefly to examine in detail, as far as the recorded facts will enable me, a moderate number of cases from both sides; and I think that those I have selected for comparison will be found to present unobjectionable samples of the disease, its treatment, and consequences, under each system; there can be no ob- jection at least on the ground that the homoeopathic cases do not present as full a proportion of conditions usually regarded as unfavourable to recovery as any number of allopathic cases brought into comparison with them. I have, indeed, been at pains to discover accounts of allopathic cases that were unusually favourable for the happy issue of the treat- ment, and I have been successful in my search, having found them in treatises by Louis and Bouillaud. These with the examples from the practice of Drs. Walshe, Taylor, and Pea- cock, published by Dr. Routh, and those of Dietl of Vienna,* are all I have taken from allopathic authorities. The ho- moeopathic side gives me no latitude for selection, for I know of no groups of cases published by Homoeopathists, with the exception of the forty-one by Tessier, in his Becherches Cliniques, 1850, and the eleven by myself in the British * Der Aderlass in der Lurigenentziindung. 1849.