PEDIATRICS Vol. 97 No. 5 May 1996, pp. 776
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Homeopathic Treatment of Childhood Diarrhea

Peter Fisher MRCP, FFHom1, Flavio Dantas MD2, and David Reilly FRCP, FFHom3

1 Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, London WC1N 3HR, England
2 Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Brazil
3 Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital, Glasgow G12 ONR, Scotland

Sampson and London's critique1 of Jacobs et al's2 double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of homeopathic treatment of childhood diarrhea in Nicaragua misrepresents the scientific evidence.

Sampson and London place great emphasis on possible contamination of the homeopathic medicines, citing three references. Of these three references, two do not, in fact, involve contamination or adulteration. The first (which is incorrectly quoted) reports a case of pancreatitis that followed a proprietary homeopathic preparation, but no contamination was demonstrated and no causal relationship proved.3