home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!caen!destroyer!ncar!noao!stsci!stsci.edu!bsimon
- From: bsimon@elvis.stsci.edu (Bernie Simon)
- Subject: Re: Evidence for homeopathy?
- In-Reply-To: turpin@cs.utexas.edu's message of 4 Nov 1992 12: 10:11 -0600
- Message-ID: <BSIMON.92Nov5072429@elvis.stsci.edu>
- Sender: news@stsci.edu
- Organization: None. This saves me from writing a disclaimer.
- References: <1992Oct26.180147.10892@aoa.aoa.utc.com> <1d93m3INNe0s@im4u.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:24:29 GMT
- Lines: 21
-
- I'd like to keep this thread from wandering into philosophical
- questions and on the facts. There are approximately 500 homeopathic
- physicians in the United States and no professors of homeopathy at the
- medical schools. The physicians are more concerned with making their
- patients well than in establishing the theoretical foundations of
- homeopathy. So, although homeopathic research will continue, it
- probably will do so at a slow rate. If there is any blame to be found
- here, the onus lies on those who fund medical research and not on the
- homeopaths.
-
- Your statement the homeopaths previously used small doses of excrement
- to treat cholera is, to the best of my knowledge, untrue. Do you have
- any references to support this statement? The homeopathic pharmacopia
- was fixed by the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1938. Genrally while some
- remedies are used more often than others and it is not impossible that
- some have fallen into disuse, I do not know of any medicines that were
- taken out of the homeopathic pharmacopia.
-
- --
- Bernie Simon (bsimon@stsci.edu) O tempora! O mores!
-
-