Project v. Boenninghausen
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:37 pm
The first part (1 of 15) of my "Project v. Boenninghausen" is now on my
homepage
www.bar-do.net
Below is the Synopsis - description of what is is supposed to be/become.
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Project v. Boenninghausen
By homeopath Luise Kunkle M.A.
Synopsis
Goal, method, purpose
1. Goal
The goal of the project is to make available objective data on homeopathy,
which can be checked. By the method used for this project it shall be
ascertained that the data are true, that no falsifications can have occured and
that there has not been any publication bias.
2. Method
The data to be published in parts 1 - 15 are samples, randomly selected by a
pre-set mode.
They are patients' records, copied from the casebooks of the practices of
Clemens Maria v. Boenninghausen and his son Friedrich Paul, who after the death
of his father took over his practice. They thus cover a period of more than 50
years.
I pre-determined the method of sampling in August 2005 at the Institute for the
History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart (IGM-Bosch for
short). This method is as follows:
Boenninghausensi I have selected every tenth, starting with Nr.1, i. e. 1, 11,
21 ..141. Out of these I have copied the first ten patients' records. This
fully guarantees random selection, thus publication bias is not possible.
In accordance with this mode of sampling I made Xerox copies of those records
from the original manuscripts, i.e. the hand-written casebooks of the v.
Boenninghausens kept in the archives of the Institute.
Therefore any falsification of the results or the development of the cases,
either by the practitioners themselves or later, is impossible, since the
records are bound copy-books with numbered pages. On the pages themselves any
alteration would be easily noticeable.
This kind of project is also easily reproducible at any time
3. Purpose
On the basis of these data, homeopaths as well as non-homeopaths , skeptical,
open-minded or convinced of the efficacy of homeopathy, can get a well-grounded
idea concerning the practice of homeopathy of one of the most famous classical
homeopaths (Clemens v. Boenninghausen) as well as of a lesser-known one (his
son). The data themselves can also serve as a basis for further research.ii
iBy Professional practice I mean the period after July 1835, when v.
Boenninghausen father started to earn money from his practice. (Before that, he
had already treated for more than 5 years). At that point he began a
newly-designed way of record-keeping, starting off with Journal 1
ii(A further project from the practice of a clinical homeopath, who was active
from the beginning to the middle of the twentieth century, is in the planning
stages.
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Even in the first ten patients' records published so far there is a mix of
successful treatments, so-so's and plain failures - probably a realistic
mirroring of the way it works in the practices of homeopaths.
There is also, in the Preface, an aside discussing "fact and fiction in some of
v. Boenninghausen's publications".
Regards
Luise
--
One thought to all who, free of doubt,
So definitely know what's true:
2 and 2 is 22 -
and 2 times 2 is 2:-)
==========> ICQ yinyang 96391801 <==========
homepage
www.bar-do.net
Below is the Synopsis - description of what is is supposed to be/become.
***********
Project v. Boenninghausen
By homeopath Luise Kunkle M.A.
Synopsis
Goal, method, purpose
1. Goal
The goal of the project is to make available objective data on homeopathy,
which can be checked. By the method used for this project it shall be
ascertained that the data are true, that no falsifications can have occured and
that there has not been any publication bias.
2. Method
The data to be published in parts 1 - 15 are samples, randomly selected by a
pre-set mode.
They are patients' records, copied from the casebooks of the practices of
Clemens Maria v. Boenninghausen and his son Friedrich Paul, who after the death
of his father took over his practice. They thus cover a period of more than 50
years.
I pre-determined the method of sampling in August 2005 at the Institute for the
History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart (IGM-Bosch for
short). This method is as follows:
Boenninghausensi I have selected every tenth, starting with Nr.1, i. e. 1, 11,
21 ..141. Out of these I have copied the first ten patients' records. This
fully guarantees random selection, thus publication bias is not possible.
In accordance with this mode of sampling I made Xerox copies of those records
from the original manuscripts, i.e. the hand-written casebooks of the v.
Boenninghausens kept in the archives of the Institute.
Therefore any falsification of the results or the development of the cases,
either by the practitioners themselves or later, is impossible, since the
records are bound copy-books with numbered pages. On the pages themselves any
alteration would be easily noticeable.
This kind of project is also easily reproducible at any time
3. Purpose
On the basis of these data, homeopaths as well as non-homeopaths , skeptical,
open-minded or convinced of the efficacy of homeopathy, can get a well-grounded
idea concerning the practice of homeopathy of one of the most famous classical
homeopaths (Clemens v. Boenninghausen) as well as of a lesser-known one (his
son). The data themselves can also serve as a basis for further research.ii
iBy Professional practice I mean the period after July 1835, when v.
Boenninghausen father started to earn money from his practice. (Before that, he
had already treated for more than 5 years). At that point he began a
newly-designed way of record-keeping, starting off with Journal 1
ii(A further project from the practice of a clinical homeopath, who was active
from the beginning to the middle of the twentieth century, is in the planning
stages.
*******************
Even in the first ten patients' records published so far there is a mix of
successful treatments, so-so's and plain failures - probably a realistic
mirroring of the way it works in the practices of homeopaths.
There is also, in the Preface, an aside discussing "fact and fiction in some of
v. Boenninghausen's publications".
Regards
Luise
--
One thought to all who, free of doubt,
So definitely know what's true:
2 and 2 is 22 -
and 2 times 2 is 2:-)
==========> ICQ yinyang 96391801 <==========