Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1849-11-01
HOMEOPATHY.

lately read in the Saturday Evening Post
nublished in your city, under. dare of Ju'
f. 28tb an article on ''CbQlsra in GIN
cinnati," containing some extracts trou
a correspondent in this city, who Il G
editor saws, els a gentleman well and
favor.blv known in editorial circles. -
The correspondent Of the Post ascrlbes
the great mortality in Cincinnati from
cholera, LIST. "to the circumstance that
the mode of living of the foreign popu-
lation, among whom the epidemic has
prevailed most extensively, is calculated
to bring on the disease; and 3D. "to
the fact that these classes generally en-
nlov either homeopathic physicians, or
illiterate and uneducated physicians of
foreign birth, violently prejudiced against
the use of calomel and opium"
According to this writer, then, the
mortality that has lately prevailed IN
Cincinnati, is to be ascribed in good
measure to the non-success of the Ho-
moeopathic treatment of cholera. am
surpriized that any respectable person in
our citv, should makessuchp statement
in the face of facts, which ] had suppos-
ed were pretty generally known here
Certainly the writer must be either very
dishonest Or violedtIy prejsdiaed against
Homeopathy, or, 'whichss the most
charitable conclusion, totally ignorant of
the faets in the case. Having myself
been in the midst OF the epidemic hay
mo seen much of the disease in all its
STAGES, and having witnessed the truly
astonishing success Of Homeopathy in
the treatment Of the cholera, l could
hardly refrain from burst OF indignant
feeling ON reading the extract above re-
ferred to. For l felt that it was not only
unjust in the highest degree to the Ho-
noepathists of Cincinnati, but cal, ulated
to deceive and m;slead the inhabitants
of our eastern cities where the epidemic
is now prevailing, and that it may. per-
haos, erevent many from knowing the
blessings of Homeopathy, who might
otherwise have experienced them.
As nearly as I can ascertain, there are
belonging to the congregation in Cincin-
matt. Of which have the pastoral charge,
1O4 families in all. OF these families,
SO have used and relied upon the homoe-
natbie treatment in all attacks of cholera /;
Is have used and relied upon allopathie
treatment; and the remaining 4 have
had recourse to the eclectic or botanic
rract;ce and the results have been as
follows
In the So families that have relied up
on homeopathic practice, numbering
416 individuals, including such domestics
and others in their employ as abide by
the usual medical treatment used In the
families-there have been, since the
commencement OF the epidemic the pre-"
sent season, 100 cases of cholera and
considerably larger number according
to the definition given by one of our
distinguished Allopathic physicians, DR..
Drake. Several Of them were cases of
cholera fully developed, and some of the
severest kind; and very many OF them
were attended with cramps, vomitmgs,
rice water discharges, DC. And out of
all these 100 cases treated Homoeopath-
ically, there has occurred but one death !;
and this was the case of lady whose
vital powers had been greatly enfeebled
by a recent confinement, and who was
not seen by a physi clan until twelve
hours after the attack, when the patient
had sunk beyond the reach of remedial
agents.
In the Is families treated allopathi-
cally-numbering in all IA individuals,
including domesties, &c. - there were
25 cases and tfve deaths, all Americans.
In families who use the eclectic or DO
tanic practice. numbering in all 80 indi-
viduals, there have been 5 cases and no
deaths.
/ ought to mention, that in quite a
number of all the cases treated. no ply
stefan was. called, the patient having
found relief from the remedies previously
furnished the families by their respective
schools of practice. ] believe about all
the families who have used the homoeo'
pathic practice, have kept themselves
supplied with box Of cholera remedies.
accompanied with the printed directions
This has generally enabled them to arrest
the disease in its FIRST stages. The pro-
portion Of cases to the number of persons
composing the families, is almost precise
ly the same among those who relied upon
the homeopathic, as among those who
used the allopathic treatment, i. e.. about
one case to every three individuals. 1t
will also be seen that the number Of ca
ses treated homoeopathically have been
more than six to one treated allopathi.
cally. Yet the number of deaths undo,
the allopathic treatment has been .fo'
times as great as under the homoeopath-
&c. According to the ratio Of deaths te
cases treated ALPHABETICALLY. the homoeo
pathists should have lost over thirty.
ave; whereas they have lost but one
As far As these statistics 90, therefore
(which have used great care in collect
ing they show that the new treatmen,