The homoeopathic treatment of cholera; a historical study.

The history of the homoeopathic treatment of cholera starts with its very discoverer-Samuel Hahnemann who took up its treatment with the help of his homoeopathic medicines and created a revolt against the existing method of treatment of that time which consisted of blood-letting, leeches, cupping etc., as it was found that the blood vessels of cholera casualties were gorged with blood in the right ventricle of the heart and the vena cava, also in the lungs, liver etc. This was a period of very scientific insanity and the poor victim persisted in dying. Disgusted by this turmoil in the field of treatment of cholera, Hahnemann denounced blood letting and it was his intuitive faculty of apprehending that made Hahnemann to ever make the most remarkable hit or that ever was made in medicine i. e. his recommendation of camphor in cholera. He could understand the type of disease by its description only and found its resemblance in t hc action of a drug. He laid down three main remedies that would be curative in that disease; in early and simple cases camphor; in later stages with excessive cramping, cuprum or with excessive evacuations and profuse cold sweat, veratrum album. This is remarkable also historically as homoeopathic system in general and the treatment of cholera by it were put to test in hospital under the inspection of a despotic govern ment.