Camphor poisoning displays all the symptoms of early cholera, and Hahnemann says, It is only when given alone at the first invasion of the disease, that it is so marvelously useful. The patient’s friends must employ it, as this stage soon ends in death or in the second stage, more difficult to cure, and not with Camphor.” He gave “one drop of the strong spirit of Camphor on sugar ( or in water) every five minutes. Where jaws are locked and nothing can be swallowed, it can be rubbed into the skin, given as a clyster, or its fumes inhaled, when evaporated on hot iron. The quicker this is done the more rapid and certain the patient’;s recovery. In couple of hours warmth, strength, consciousness, rest and sleep return, and he is saved. Even in the case of persons laid out for burial, where only a finger was seen to move, Camphor spirit mixed with oil, introduced into the mouth, had recalled the apparently dead to life.”
Results-briefly. The Russian Consul General reported that of 70 cases in two places, all were cured;elsewhere of 1,270 cases only 108 died. In Vienna hospitals, two thirds treated Homoeopathically recovered, while two-thirds in the other hospitals died. In the South of France, where allopathic mortality was 90 per cent. the Homoeopathic mortality was 5 to 7 per cent. A missionary (South America) was imprisoned for gratuitously curing a number of cholera patients, when the hospital treatment did not cure one. Even in this country, our results were suppressed till demanded in Parliament, “as they would give an unjustifiable sanction to an empirical practice, alike oppressed to the maintenance of truth, and to the progress of science.”.
