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Homeopathy And The Flu

By Peggy Elliott, HMA

From its earliest days, homeopathy has been able to treat epidemic diseases with a substantial rate of success, when compared to conventional treatments. It was these successes that placed the practice of homeopathy so firmly in the consciousness of peopleworld-wide.

Perhaps the most well known use of homeopathy in a major epidemic was during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918. 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 with conventional treatments had a mortality rate of 28.2% and only 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.

One physician in a Pittsburgh hospital during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic 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.

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