The Journal of the American Institute for Homeopathy, May, 1921, had a long article about the use of homeopathy in the flu epidemic. Dr. T A McCann, from Dayton, Ohio reported that 24,000 cases of flu treated allopathically had a mortality rate of 28.2% while 26,000 cases of flu treated homeopathically had a mortality rate of 1.05%. This last figure was supported by Dean W.A. Pearson of Philadelphia (Hahnemann College) who collected 26,795 cases of flu treated with homeopathy with the above result..... Dr. Herbert A. Roberts from Derby, CT, said that 30 physicians in Connecticut responded to his request for data. They reported 6,602 cases with 55 deaths, which is less than 1%. Dr. Roberts was working as a physician on a troop ship during WWI. He had 81 cases of flu on the way over to Europe. He reported, "All recovered and were landed. Every man received homeopathic treatment. One ship lost 31 on the way."
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"One physician in a Pittsburgh hospital asked a nurse if she knew anything better than what he was doing, because he was losing many cases. "Yes, Doctor, stop aspirin and go down to a homeopathic pharmacy, and get homeopathic remedies." The Doctor replied: "But that is homeopathy." "I know it, but the homeopathic doctors for whom I have nursed have not lost a single case."--W. F. Edmundson, MD, Pittsburgh."
In fact, in the troop ship episode mentioned above, there were two troop ships with homeopaths on board as medical doctors. Not a single person died. The ships actually rendezvous'd with other troop ships to give them their coffins.
It would be preferable if people learnt something of homeopathy before commenting on it. It is a perfectly straightforward theory, easy to put into practice and with no long lasting side effects. The remedies are cheap - and that has been the problem since day one. Although they are cheap to produce they have to be made carefully and accurately. Because the apothecaries were too sloppy, good homeopaths made their own until homeopathic pharmacies arrived. This naturally ticked off the apothecaries who had homeopaths driven out of the towns they operated from because they were breaking the state monopoly granted to them.
