Interesting Summer Reading
I'm currently on vacation, so I've been accumulating some links to send your way for this summer issue of the Newsletter. Enjoy!
Folks Who Love(d) Homeopathy
Vaccination
New Studies -- Homeopathy Works!
Homeopathic History
I just love this one... this came courtesy of the National Center for Homeopathy newsletter.
Homeopathic patients used to get lower life insurance premiums -- because they were healthier!
In his 1864 report on life insurance to the New York State Homeopathic Medical Society, Dr. A. R. Morgan M.D. wrote:
"The General Provident Assurance Company of London was converted to homeopathy by the evidence of statistics. Their actuary reported the following:
'That person treated by the homeopathic system enjoy more robust health, are less frequently attacked by disease, and, when attacked, recover more rapidly than those treated by any other system; that with respect to the more fatal
classes of disease, the mortality under homeopathy is small in comparison with that under allopathy; that there are diseases not curable at all under the later system, which are perfectly curable under the former; finally, that the
medicines prescribed by homeopathic physicians do not injure the constitution, whereas, those employed by allopaths do not infrequently entail the most serious, and in many instances, fatal consequences.
These data being laid before the board of directors, a meeting of shareholders was called, who decided without a dissenting voice "to open a special section for persons treated by the homeopathic system, at a lower rate of premium
than that charged on other lives." The action of the General Provident Life Assurance Company immediately attracted the attention of shrewd capitalists in this country [America], who, after a critical investigation on the subject,
are moving in different portions of the United States for the establishment of Life Insurance Companies on a basis affording lower rates of premium to the patrons of homeopathy."
