Throughout most of the nineteenth century, scarlet fever was the leading cause of death among infectious childhood maladies, with a mortality of up to 30 percent in usual epidemics.
Between 1842 and 1852, 270 children with scarlet fever were treated homeopathically at the Protestant Half-Orphan Asylum in New York City with one death, a mortality of 0.37 percent.
Dr. Adolph Lippe (1812-1888) reported that, in 1849, he treated in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, “over 150 cases of malignant scarlet fever with the 200th and higher potencies exclusively—mortality—none. The allopathists [conventional doctors] lost over 90 percent and the survivors were crippled for life.” It is said scarlet fever started in New York City in 1830 and kept spreading into the 1850’s through various counties of adjoining states.
Source: Report on the epidemic diseases which prevailed in 1851, in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. Transactions of the American Medical Association 1852; 5: 312.
Reposted from Canadian Academy of Homeopathy
