14/10/2022
Homeopathy in History...
In the early part of the twentieth century, many large U.S. corporations offered welfare and unrestricted medical services to their employees and their families, similar to the ones offered by a community hospital.
By 1915, some of these medical services were under homeopathic management, including the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio, which treated 25,024 employees and family members during that year. Some other notable large companies that were under homeopathic direction during that time were General Electric Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and three-car companies in Detroit, namely, the Continental Motor Company, the Chalmers Motor Company, and the Studebaker Corporation.
The Medical and Welfare Department of Montgomery Ward Company of Chicago, one of the largest industrial plants in the world, was also under homeopathic medical management during the 1918-19 flu pandemic, and its story during the pandemic is important because it illustrates the wide influence homeopathy can have on a nation.
During the 1918-19 pandemic, the care and attention offered by Dr. Wieland and his staff at Montgomery Ward led to outstanding results. Here we quote Dr. Wieland:
“In the great influenza epidemics of last winter, our city suffered severely indeed. Here was a wonderful opportunity to prove what homeopathy could do. Of our several hundred cases in the first epidemic, not one was lost. In the second, equally deadly, one man died of pneumonia. He was alone, and no physician was called until he was quite moribund. … This epidemic came at the holiday season when literally, hundreds of thousands of customers passed through the store each day. And yet we won out.”[1]
He later told the American Institute of Homeopathy, “We had only one death. The patients were not drugged to death. ”[2]
**The information in this article is intended for informational purposes only. Please remember, if you have the flu, it is advisable to seek the advice of a licensed practitioner for treatment options.
Source:
1. Frank Wieland. An adventure in homeopathy. Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy 1920-1921; 13: 717-722.
2. W. A. Dewey. Homeopathy in influenza—A chorus of fifty in harmony. Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy 1920-21; 13: 1038.