Report on the yellow fever of 1867 : made by request to the American Institute of Homoeopathy / by William H. Holcombe.

  • Holcombe, William H. (William Henry), 1825-1893.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Report on the yellow fever of 1867 : made by request to the American Institute of Homoeopathy / by William H. Holcombe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE EPIDEMIC OF YELLOW FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS IN 1867. It is not probable that many members of the American Insti- tute of Homoeopathy will ever have occasion to treat a case of yellow fever; but no physician who loves his profession, and takes pleasure in the study of natural phenomena, can fail to be interested in the history, symptoms, and character of this extra- ordinary and formidable disease. In the history of medicine its successful treatment by homoeopathy will take rank with the triumphs of the same practice in Asiatic cholera. We have competed with the old school, over and over again, in combat- ing these dreaded scourges of the human race; our laurels are found in the increasing faith, respect, and gratitude of the most enlightened public. Our ignominious failure is always loudly predicted at the beginning of these epidemics; but the voices of derision at infinitesimal doses die gradually away into faint eulogies of the powers of Nature in curing homoeopathic patients. It is not my intention to go over the same descriptive and speculative grounds which I attempted in my extended mono- graph on the great epidemics of 1853 and 1855. With increas- ing years, our tendency to philosophize diminishes; and our minds look eagerly around, not so much to adjust our practice scientifically to our theories, as to seize the most available and