Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cureWhitney, Elijah
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Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cure
Whitney, Elijah
Cholera
The statistics collected from the most reliable sources, and here
presented, may be regarded as a fair representation of the general
average of loss by the different modes of practice. In a report now
before us, it is stated, "The average proportion of deaths in Paris
from cholera, treated under the allopathic practice, was 49 per cent.;
while that under the homoeopathic was only 7-1/4 per cent." "In
Vienna, (Aus.,) under the former, the deaths are reported at 31 per
cent.; while under the latter it was only 8 per cent. In Bordeaux,
death occurred under allopathic treatment at the rate of 67 per cent.,
and under homoeopathic, 17 per cent. only. The general average in
the places last mentioned will stand thus: Allopathic, 49 per cent.;
homoeopathic, 10-1/4 per cent." The record of mortality in twenty-one
hospitals in Europe shows the average deaths under allopathic treatment
to be 65-1/8 per cent., while in ten hospitals where the cholera
patients were under homoeopathic treatment, the average deaths from
that disease was 11-3/4 only. In a report "published by the authorities
of Pischnowitz (in Prussia), it will be seen that 680 cases were
treated as follows: 278 treated homoeopathically, of which 27 died; 381
treated allopathically, of which 102 died."
In St. Louis, during the prevalence of cholera in 1849, the number
treated by three homoeopathic doctors, to July 13th, was 1,567, of
which 51 died--a loss of 3-1/4 per cent.
In Cincinnati, during the month of May, there were treated by the
eclectic physicians 330 cases of cholera and 198 cases of cholerine, of
which only five died.
In the same city, during the same time, there were treated by the
allopathic physicians 432 cases of cholera, of which 116 died.
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