HOMOEOPATHIC Mortality percent.
vide Logic of Figures of Dr. Bradford, p. 116 et seq; Dr. Quin, London, reports mortality of ten homoeopathic hospitals in 1831-32 as.. 9.00
Dr. Roth, an orthodox physician to the King of Bavaria, reported officially and with reluctance that the homoeopathic mortality in 1831-32 was .. 7.00
Report of the Hahnemannian Academy of Medicine showed that the New York mortality in 1849 was.. 6.00
p. 118, Logic of Figures (Bradford). Admiral Mordoinow in same report had to admit that the homoeopathic mortality was .. 10.00
The homoeopathic death rate for same period was.. 33.00 “and on account of this extraordinary result the law interdicting the practice of homoeopathy in Austria was repealed”
All the cases concerned in the homoeopathic statistics were certified to as genuine by Dr. Mc- loughlin, the Government Inspector, who wrote to this effect, and also “that he would chose to be treated homoeopathically were he taken ill with cholera” The “missing report” alluded to in the opposite column, showed, when brought before the House of Commons that the homoeopathic mortality was only .. 16.40
ditto, “Hawley” and the homoeopathic death rate was less than .. 9.00
and the same century loss guaranteed by the Am. Institute of Homoeopathy was for the Homoeopathic loss only.. 16.83
Same epidemic (Hamburg) same work, p. 526, the homoeopathic loss at one hospital was.. 15.50
See Homoeopathic Review, London, June, 1866, p. 338. Dr. Rubini had 200 cases at the Royal Alms House at Naples, attested by public officials, with NO DEATHS.
Injuries are very difficult to estimate, because in many cases where injury to the patient results from the delivery death takes place not as a result of shock or injury, but owing to the fact that the bruised tissues becomes infected; death is usually due to septicaemia (blood poisoning). Most of the grave injuries result from hastening unduly the delivery. As a matter of fact the two generally go together.
To extract the head situated at the outlet is comparatively simple and safe, and at worst will only result in a slight tearing of the perineum which can be easily repaired; but to apply forceps while the head is high in the pelvis, especially if it is still within the neck of the uterus, is a different matter. No one can ever pull down the head with forceps as well as Nature can drive it down Infinite patience is necessary in many cases.
The busy general practitioner says he has not time to wait, and after some years he persuades himself that not only is more convenient to himself to deliver with forceps as soon as possible, but that it is actually in the interests of his patients that they should not be allowed to remain in labour longer than necessary. Further, and this is a very important matter, many individuals, particularly of the artisan class, appraise the value of the accoucheur by the promptitude with which he delivers them and relieves them of their suffering. This hurrying of a delivery with forceps cannot be too strongly condemned –PROFESSOR J.M. MUNRO KERR, in British Medical Journal, June 12th, 1926.
