In the late 1800s, the allopathic death rate in diptheria was 8 times that of homeopaths

Diphtheria

During epidemics of diphtheria, the mortality rate would range between 30 to 50 percent of affected children. It was the leading cause of death in children during the first part of the twentieth century (1). Today, with "appropriate treatment" the mortality remains at 5 to 10 percent (2).

In the winter of 1860, Drs. Lippe, Hering and Reichhelm treated over 240 cases of diphtheria without a single loss, while the fatality under allopathic treatment was more than 50 percent. Hering adds, "these were genuine cases of fully developed diphtheria, treated by us, and does not include the multitude of sore throats which we treated, and which lacks the characteristics of diphtheria" (3,4).

In 1911, Dr. Dewey compiled the results of 28 European and American homeopathic physicians in their treatment of patients with diphtheria between 1883 and 1891. The data showed 153 deaths among 3,793 patients, a mortality of 4.0 percent. Between 1879 and 1894, allopathic physicians from Boston, Berlin and Strasburg reported treating 19,548 cases with diphtheria with 6,208 deaths, a mortality of 32.2 percent or eight times more than the homeopaths.

References:

1) Kenneth F. Kiple (ed.). The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 680-681.

2)  CDC. Fatal Respiratory Diphtheria in a Traveler to an Endemic Area - Pennsylvania, 2003. Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report January 9, 2004.

3)  Constantine Hering. Cases of diphtheria. American Homœopathic Review 1860; 2: 515-516.

4)  P. P. Wells. Diphtheria and bacteria. Homœopathic Physician 1881; 1: 249