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I enjoy a good homeopathy-bash as much as the next guy, but Boole died of an infectious disease. The rain storm he walked through, and the wet blankets he was wrapped in, had nothing to do with the bacterium that killed him. The "cold sensations cause pneumonia" folklore this article relies on is as much magical thinking as the homeopathy it invites us to smugly chortle at.


If he used homeopathy instead of an available recognized medical treatment for the disease then the articles position still holds.


It was 1864. There were not even a germ theory that had any power to explain his illness, let alone antibiotics with which to treat him.




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