Homeopathy had better success with pneumonia in 1928 than conventional doctors do today.

Pneumonia

Today, pneumonia is the leading cause of death due to infectious diseases in the United States. In 2000, pneumonia/influenza was the eighth leading cause of death in America after heart diseases, cancer, iatrogenic diseases (diseases due to medical treatment or drugs), strokes, chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents and diabetes (1).  At the current rate, one in every 25 Americans (3.9 percent) will die of pneumonia/influenza (2).

Untreated "lobar pneumonia has a mortality of about 30 percent." With antibiotics, fatalities are reduced to a varying extent, depending on the underlying condition of the patient, but in persons over 12 years the mortality is at least 18 percent and in immunocompromised persons it is much higher." (3) The reported mortality rate for community-acquired pneumonia is on average 12 percent (4,5),  and for hospital-acquired pneumonia is 50 to 70 percent. (6)A survey conducted in 1928 among homeopathic physicians reports a death rate of 2.8 percent among 11,526 patients with pneumonia who were treated with pure homeopathy. (7) The venerable Dr. P. P. Wells of Brooklyn commented that a death rate of even 2 or 3 percent is till too high under "right" homeopathy.

References:

1) A. M. Minino, et al. Deaths: final data for 2000. National Vital Statistics Reports 2002; 50 (15): 1-120.

2) Sherry L. Murphy. Deaths : Final Data for 1998. National Vital Statistics Reports 2000; 48 : 1-106.

3)  Kenneth F. Kiple (ed.). The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 938-939.

4) M J Fine, et al. Meta-analysis of community-acquired pneumonia. JAMA 1996; 275:134.

5); Samuel Louie. Hospital-acquired pneumonia. Medocs.ucdavis.edu. 2000.

6) http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/ucdhs/health/az/64pneuomnia/doc64severity.h...

7) E. Rodney Fiske. A survey of the statistics of the homœopathic treatment of lobar pneumonia. Homœopathy 1933; 2; 2-5