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From: jag@ampex.com (Rayaz Jagani)
Subject: Re: Homeopathy: a respectable medical tradition?
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 15:47:43 GMT
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In article <19609@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>In article <3794@nlsun1.oracle.nl> rgasch@nl.oracle.com (Robert Gasch) writes:
>>
>>In many European countries Homepathy is accepted as a method of curing
>>(or at least alleiating) many conditions to which modern medicine has 
>>no answer. In most of these countries insurance pays for the 
>>treatments.
>>
>
>Accepted by whom?  Not by scientists.  There are people
>in every country who waste time and money on quackery.
>In Britain and Scandanavia, where I have worked, it was not paid for.
>What are "most of these countries?"  I don't believe you.
>
>

When were you in Britain?, my information is different.

From Miranda Castro, _The Complete Homeopathy Handbook_,
ISBN 0-312-06320-2, oringinally published in Britain in 1990.

From Page 10,
.. and in 1946, when the National Health Service was established,
homeopathy was included as an officially approved method
of treatment.


