Cholera and its treatment.

  • British Homoeopathic Association
Date:
[1848?]
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Credit: Cholera and its treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    localities, and report on the effects of its Homoeopathic treatment, published in 1833 an interesting pamphlet, which has furnished a considerable portion of the statistics above detailed. The statistics from Tischnowitz, in Moravia, were furnished by the authorities of that place, accompanied by a letter of the most grateful acknowledg¬ ment. Dr. Veith, one of the practitioners whose results are quoted in the above list, had formerly been a medical practitioner of the Allopathic school, but was at the time when the Cholera raged at Vienna, Chaplain to the Court, and to St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and whilst administering the consolations of religion to those infected with Cholera, he was shocked at the awful mortality that prevailed; and the idea of treating them according to the Homoeopathic system with which he was already familiar, occurred to him, His success was so great, that of 125 patients he lost but three. With regard to a peculiar modification of atmospheric Cholera observed in China, by an eminent Allopathist, Dr. Wilson, Inspector of Naval Hospitals and Fleets,-it is stated by that gentleman in his Medical Notes, published in 1846— “ In the Cholera cases the doctrine of the Homceopathists, similia similibus curantur, is partly admitted. Whatever may be thought of the theory on which the practice is founded there is no doubt the practice is often highly beneficial.” He also adds—“ at the invasion of many febrile affec¬ tions involving important organs, and leading, if not speedily arrested, to dangerous, perhaps destructive lesions of those organs, it often acts with an absolutely curative effect.” In connexion with the results above given, of the Homoeopathic treatment in Asiatic Cholera, it is necessary to remark, that the following observation has been made by the Medical Gazette con¬ cerning them :—“ The Homceopathists have boasted of their success in treating Cholera; the secret of this is, that they did not interfere so much as the regular practitioners with the vis medicatrix natures!” As the editor, however, will be found to have asserted in his previous page, that where the disease had been suffered to run its course un¬ checked, there the mortality had been greater than even under the regular practitioners, it will not be difficult to estimate the degree of value to bo attached to this attempt to explain away the success of Homoeopathy. To these remarks it may be desirable to add for popular instruc-