Homoeopathic Treatment of Epidemic Cholera (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... even when selected without reference to the peculiar tendencies of each individual. But I am confident that a discriminating treatment of premonitory symptoms, according to the principles and practice recommended in this book was invariably preventive of any fatal attack. CHAPTER V. HISTORY OF TREATMENT, 0 R STATISTICAL PROOFS OF THE SUCCESS OF HOMOEOPATHY IN CHOLERA. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. A vast number of remedies and modes of allopathic treatment have enjoyed ephemeral reputation, have been lauded, rejected, revived, and again rejected, This may be partly explained by the fact, that medicines and methods employed toward the close of the epidemic in any place, acquire an undue reputation, because the disease is usually at that period less malignant and fatal. The physician not appreciating this, publishes his specific in good faith; but it utterly fails with those who subsequently try it in a different place, in any stage of the epidemic in which nature is not nearly competent to the cure. There is no plan of treatment agreed upon, even by one-fourth of the allopathic physicians, and very little confidence in allopathic Cholera practice in general, among most of the best informed of that school. An able allopathic author who practised in 1831 and 1832, in England, where homoeopathy was then unknown, says, "If the balance could be fairly struck, and the exact truth ascertained, I question whether we should find that the average mortality from Cholera in this country, was any way disturbed by our craft. Excepting always the cases in which preliminary diarrhoea was checked, just as many, though not perhaps the very same individuals, would, probably, have survived, had no medication whatever been practised." A friend asks me--How will you'treat the Cholera? ...