Fewster Robert Horner 1803 – 1863
Fewster Robert Horner 1803 – 1863 MD, MRCSE Guy’s Hospital 1825, was a British orthodox physician, Physician at the St. John Street Dispensary in Hull, Justice of the Peace for the town of Kingston upon Hull, Senior Physician at Hull Infirmary, President and Vice President of the British Medical Association,
Horner was a virulent sceptic of homeopathy who voted against homeopathy in the infamous Brighton resolutions of 1851, and who was solely responsible for suppressing the statistics presented by the London Homeopathic Hospital during the cholera epidemic of1854,
Horner nevertheless converted to homeopathy in 1857 after he was asked to investigate homeopathy, and from that time until his death, he was a stanch adherent and practitioner of the new system.
The conversion of Fewster Robert Horner was considered by homeopaths to be as important as the conversions to homeopathy of William Henderson and Jean Paul Tessier, and his conversion to homeopathy was widely publicised throughout Europe and around the World,
Horner practiced at Charlotte Street, Hull, and in East Sulcoates, Continue Reading »
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