Dear all,

digging into history, I thought I would pass on some information from an article in Stapfs Archiv.

Perhaps some of you are no familiar with the name of this Journal. IN JW's book 'Faces of homoeopathy', you'll find some info + the picture of the medical doctor Ernst Stapf (often regarded as one of Hahnemann's favourite disciples and the strongest support of the pure Hahnemannism; several of his articles he wrote under the pseudonym of 'Philalethes'), who started the first homoeopathic journal 'Archiv für die homöopathische Heilkunst' in 1822. It contained provings, cases, book reviews, articles of all sorts from people all over the world. The last issue was published in 1846.

In this article 'Overview of the cases treated here homoeopathically in the year 1846', the medical doctors Krummacher and Kiesselbach in Bremen in Northern Germany publish the statistic of their cases. (As Stapf confirms, they have a purely homoeopathic clinic.)

They list:
- name of disease
- number of treated
- number of cured
- number of ameliorated
- number of uncured
- number of patients who changed to other treatment
- number of deceased

For the year 1846 there were:

- number of treated: 2800
- number of cured: 2593
- number of ameliorated: 117
- number of uncured: 14
- changed to other treatment: 36
- number of deceased: 40

Interesting numbers, don't you think so?

Now, what were the diseases treated by the doctors in their clinic (I have 7 pages, so I'll just pick a few):

Toothache
- number of treated: 264
- number of cured: 250
- number of ameliorated: --
- number of uncured: --
- changed to other treatment: 14*
- number of deceased: --

(* teeth had to be extracted because of their bad consistence)

Inflammation of the brain of children (hydrocephalus acutus)
- number of treated: 7
- number of cured: 6
- number of ameliorated: --
- number of uncured: --
- changed to other treatment: --
- number of deceased: 1

Chronic constipation
- number of treated: 18
- number of cured: 13
- number of ameliorated: 3
- number of uncured: 2
- changed to other treatment: --
- number of deceased: --

Diarrhea (rheumatic and catarrhal):
- number of treated: 42
- number of cured: 42
- number of ameliorated: --
- number of uncured: --
- changed to other treatment: --
- number of deceased: --

Syphilitic diseases
- number of treated: 23
- number of cured: 18
- number of ameliorated: --
- number of uncured: --
- changed to other treatment: 5
- number of deceased: --

Acute catarrhs of trachea and chest
- number of treated: 119
- number of cured: 119
- number of ameliorated: --
- number of uncured: --
- changed to other treatment: --
- number of deceased: --

Whooping cough
- number of treated: 91
- number of cured: 89
- number of ameliorated: --
- number of uncured: --
- changed to other treatment: --
- number of deceased: 2

Organic heart diseases
- number of treated: 6
- number of cured: --
- number of ameliorated: 5
- number of uncured: --
- changed to other treatment: --
- number of deceased: 1

Asthma
- number of treated: 15
- number of cured: 10
- number of ameliorated: 4
- number of uncured: --
- changed to other treatment: 1
- number of deceased: --

Well, they did a lot of work, those 2 medical doctors (Kiesselbach, BTW, was a Dr.med. AND Dr. phil.)

Best,

Gaby

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Gaby Rottler
Germany

Wonderful!!

I'm sure Bradford might have included that material in his great little book, "The Logic of Figures," but having it called out this way from the source is magnificent.

What a great reminder of the power of homeopathy.

JW