After treating 242 cases of pneumonia, of all types and degrees of severity, some coming
directly from and others having been confirmed in the diagnosis by allopaths, with but 3
deaths, a rate of but 1.4 percent, we can hardly understand a fixed minimum death-rate of
25 percent, much less a maximum rate of 95 percent, in a disease as readily amenable to
the proper remedy as is pneumonia. The death rate under the homeopathic simillimum
should at no time exceed 5 percent, a higher rate would rather reflect on our ability