Epidemic disease

Paul Alexander

I’m writing this with great concern, as a prominent member of our global homeopathic community has recently promoted Paul Alexander as an objective, authoritative voice regarding the nature of, and responses to, the SARS-CoV–2 / COVID-19 pandemic.  Alexander does possess credentials as a medically-trained epidemiologist, but it is important to recognize that his voiced opinions …

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JH Clarke, Catarrh, Colds, and Grippe; section on “Grippe”

JH Clarke Catarrh, Colds, and Grippe (1899) Grippe or influenza Grippe or influenza – Treatment This is the section of Clarke’s text dealing with “Grippe,” or Influenza. Note the publication date of 1899; this is likely principally in reference to the “Russian ‘flu” pandemic that shortly preceded its publication, which in contemporary retrospective analysis most …

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The friend of health (Hahnemann, 1791) – Part i – Protection against infection in epidemic diseases

For every kind of poisonous exhalation there is in all probability a particular antidote, only we do not always know enough about the latter. It is well known that the air of our atmosphere contains two-thirds of a gas that is immediately fatal to man and beast, and extinguishes flame. Mixed up along with it …

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The mode of propagation of the asiatic cholera – Hahnemann, 1831

Two opinions, exactly opposed to each other prevail on this subject. One party considers the pestilence as only epidemic, of atmospheric-telluric nature, just as though it were merely spread through the air, from which there would in that case be no protection. The other party denies this, and holds it to be communicable by contagion …

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Observations on the scarlet-fever (Hahnemann, 1808)

The malignant scarlet-fever that has prevailed in Germany for eight years and proved fatal to many thousands of children and older persons, often so unexpectedly, so rapidly, and with symptoms never before heard of under such circumstances, this murderous disease, termed scarlet-fever by almost every one, is really anything but scarlet-fever; it is a new …

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Some history of the treatment of epidemics with Homeopathy – Julian Winston

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 people world-wide. There is a story told about Joseph Pulte, one of the earliest homeopaths in …

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