VIRUS Band 20, pp. 307-316, 2022/06/14
Schwerpunkt: Kulturgeschichte(n) der Impfung
This essay deals with the far-reaching claims of alternative medicine and how they appear to benefit from pandemics. To make this clear, the current debate, as expressed in a popular book by Clemens G. Arvay, is compared to a paper by the water doctor and natural healer Theodor Hahn (1824–1883), which he wrote on the occasion of the cholera outbreak in Schwerin in 1849.
Keywords: Theodor Hahn, Clemens G. Arvay, Cholera Epidemic 1849, COVID-19 Pandemic, Alternative Medicine, Nature Cure Movement, 19th Century