Cholera 1854: update

In october 1987 a paper was published in this journal attempting to assess the claims made by the British Homoeopathic Society concerning the efficacy of the treatment of cholera at Golden Square during the 1854 epidemic. Details of the treatment were not available at that time and had to be deduced. This paper fills in those details. The view wxpressed then that homoeopathy played a major part in bringing about substantially better results than the allopaths in reinforced. For background information the reader is referred to the original paper