06/03/2026
One of the lessons of the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918-19...
When genuine homeopathic treatment is administered to persons experiencing the first symptoms of an epidemic infection, the progression of the infection is soon mitigated, and it would therefore be very unlikely for such persons to develop the more advanced stages of morbidity and complications, which lead to death.
Professor A. H. Grimmer of the Hering Medical College in Chicago, who was known to be a Hahnemannian, pointed out, while in the midst of the pandemic, “It is a rare thing for a pneumonia to develop if a good homeopathic physician is called during the first twenty-four hours of an attack of influenza.”
Dr. John McBride of Zanesville, Ohio, remarked, “During the epidemic of 1918, when in my city the death rate was very high, it was the other fellow who kept the undertakers busy, so that they said our profession did not have cases of pneumonia. I do think our treatment prevented the development of pneumonia.”
Sources:
A. H. Grimmer. Remedies frequently indicated in the recent epidemics of Spanish influenza and pneumonia. Clinique 1919; 40: 11-16.
John McBride. Discussion. A study of the comparative value of the homeopathic treatment and other methods of treatment in lobar pneumonia. Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy 1922-1923; 15: 541-550.
