Article: Nature's nostrums. (homeopathy in Nature magazine)

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August 8, 1988
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MEDICAL SCIENCE Nature's nostrums

Homeopathy, long embraced in Europe by princes and paupers, is scorned by mainstream medicine. So the prestigious British journal Nature caused a stir in June when it published a French study that seemed to buttress homeopathy's claims that the same chemicals that trigger ailments, when administered in microdoses, can cure them. Having thus given homeopaths a figurative shot in the arm, Nature last week returned to the subject-and gave them the needle.

The French study appeared to show that a highly diluted chemical mixturein this case containing a mere microdose of human ...

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