New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-29
uomeopathy and che Health BOARD.

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SIR: member of the Metropolitan Board OF Health"
has several times officially announced 81 different sessions
OF the Board that the Homeopathic Committees, 70
whom no Homeopathic societies of the counties oil new
York and Kings had delegated full power TO solicit
hospital for the Homeopathic treatment OF ch0era ana 70
therefor had not only boon ooureousy
received but also assured that they should have ample
opportunity to practically demonstate in tho wards OF
hospital the superiority inferorty Of Homeopathy In
tho treatment of this pestience. More recently ne mas
publicly asserted that tho Homeopathic Committees
did not dare to make the trial.
The history Of the varied efforts madoby the Committees
OF the counties of NewYork and Kings and their results
recently published by their charmen Drs. Bowers and
Hall, clearly show, that tho facts have been knowingly
msrepresentcd by the aforesaid medical member OF the
Board OF Health.
This report forever at the assertion that the
Homeopathic Committees dare not accept the demonsra-
Of hospital public comparison of the two forms
Of medical treatment for in this report they publicly and
without any equyocatiol, offer to accept hospital
for this purpose open at oil hours to the inspection OF the
Board of Health, or Of its official allopahic inspector Dr.
Smith.
been in the hands of that Board of Health since the
first appearance of cholera in our midst and never with
drawn. On the contrary, they have only awaited the
the opportunity to spring to action and more than prove
their words by their deeds. F
With this fact understood it is at patent to tho
public that it is the Aopathc physicians of the Board OF
Health acting upon the instructions of their medical 30
ccties and their own fears who dare not permit the
Homeopathic profession the use OF hospital for ther Pc
cuar treatment through prescleDce OF results Similar 10
tnOSe winch OccuIIcu III Euelhnu III iocf
The report which gives the comparative results OF inc
Homeopathic and Aopathc treatments Of Asatc cholera
in English hospitals was ordered TO DO printed oy inc
House of Commons on the 9lst OF May, 1919.
Dr. Mclaughlin, the Medical Inspector OF tho General
Board of Health was appointed BY the English Govern
mcnt to inspect all hospitals in 1854 lie was an Alopath
His report was as follows:
Deaths under Homeopathic treatment (Asiatic
ohoIera) 1914 per cent
Deaths under AllOpathic treatment (Asatic chOl.
This report rs peculiarly interesting because Dr Paris
bers Of the Medical Council behaved unscruPuousy when
they found the statistics dead against OLD physo orea
fear have taken possession OF them for they 'R
the statistics Of the Homeopathic Hospital" .
Dr. Mclaughlin an impartial inspectors himself an
Lord Ebury one Of the Wee Presidents and Chairman Of
the Hospital Board moved for the suppressed returns Inc
motion agreed to BY Parliament when the ABOVE truth
elected"
The above facts will satisfy the public whore the fear
hes and to the physicians Of which practice the phrase
Docs not dare" trutbully applies.
In tho cases Of cholera which have occurred in New
York and Brooklyn this the deaths in hospitals 50
far lave been Informed, have averaged above % per
cent. The treatment he's been Allopatnic.
Dr. Hubina OF Naples, the author OF monogram on
the Cactus Grandhorus and of the most Distinguished
practitioners of homeopathy Europe, has treated osI
cases Of Asatc cholera in all stages of the disease, and
lost not patient -
The majority OF these cases treated in the Royal
Almshousc the Royal Poor-House and the Third SWISS
Regiment of Wolff and are attcsted to- with their official
seals attached, by five high officials OF the Neapoitan
Government.
With these facts exhibiting the eminently superior sue
cess OF Homeopathic treatment il not the Metropolitan
Board of Health" criminal in denying TO the Homeo-
pahc Profession Hospital for the treatment OF the poor
when BY 10 doing majority Of the cases now dying un-
der the prevailing STATE Anopathc treatment, could be
saved .
Arc not its members as morally criminal arc legally
the spectators OF murder, who look aud do not In
terfere1
Are thoy not permitting many lives 10 every hundred OF
ther patients TO be sacrificed which could be savedi
That they aro statistics given above amply attest
and arp logically uDanswerable.
Brookiyn, Aug. %, 1866.