Statistical statement of the results of homœopathic treatment of cholera patients during September and October, 1853, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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1853
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Credit: Statistical statement of the results of homœopathic treatment of cholera patients during September and October, 1853, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STATISTICAL STATEMENT. The following Return comprises, as we conceive, the principal features of interest in the Cholera Cases treated by us* as regards at least the general public. The symptomatology and treatment, should they seem to us sufficiently peculiar to possess interest for the profession, will appear in due time in the medical journals. It will be observed that out of four cases seen at, or near the commencement, three are reported among the deaths. This result is due to the fact that they occurred at the outbreak of the epidemic. Such was the intensity of the miasma at that period, and such the suddenness of its ap¬ proach, that the human sy stem, where predisposed to its influence, sunk before it. Medicine seemed to do nothing, and men died like flies on a cold morning in Autumn. Happily the miasma soon either became diluted, or the system got accustomed to its action, the cases got milder, and medicine became of greater efficacy. In estimating the comparative success of the treatment, this fact should be taken into consideration. The later cases were generally mild cases, though bearing the true Cholera stamp. Against this, however, must be set the fact that some of our earliest and fatal cases were in a hopeless state before we saw them. Upon our own minds the impression has been that the curative action of the Homoeopathic medicines has been marked and unmistakable. We take this opportunity of thanking the friends of Homoeopathy for their valuable and ready aid in minis¬ tering to the wants of the sick, from which our labours derived greater efficacy and success. This matter will be treated more at large in the Annual Report of the Homoeopathic Dispensary. THOMAS HAYLE, M.D, Physician to the Dispensary. HENRY ELLIOTT, M.R.C.S.L. Surgeon Do. Do.