30/08/2024
History and Homeopathy
Homeopathy in History...
In 1889, there was a great epidemic of typhoid in Melbourne, Australia. All hospitals were cleared for typhoid patients, as they were so numerous.
The allopathic hospitals with 462 beds treated 755 patients with a mortality of 16.7 percent. The homeopathic hospitals with 60 beds received and treated 305 patients with typhoid fever with a 7.2 percent mortality.
Dr. E. Petrie Hoyle of London offered the following comments, “Thus the mortality under allopathy was more than double what it was under homœopathy, and besides the duration of the illness was so much shortened under homœopathy, as will be evident, where it is seen that the sixty beds of the homœopathic hospital dealt with nearly half as many patients as the 462 beds of the allopathic hospitals.”
Source: J. Robertson Day and E. Petrie Hoyle (eds.). International Homœopathic Directory, 1911-12. London : Homœopathic Publishing Company, 1911 :17.
