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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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Hamilton Bailey 1894 – 1961

Hamilton Bailey 1894 – 1961 RNVR, LMSSA 1916 London, FRCS 1920, FACS, was a British orthodox physician, Surgeon at the London Hospital, Surgeon at the Royal Northern Hospital, one of the best known surgical writers in Britain, who worked as a Surgeon at the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital, and Surgeon at the Bath Homeopathic Hospital, Continue Reading »

Sue :: Feb.06.2010 :: British History :: No Comments »

James Montgomery 1771 – 1854

James Montgomery 1771 – 1854 was a British editor, hymnwriter and poet.

James Montgomery was a friend of Spencer Timothy Hall, William Wordsworth, Continue Reading »

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Archibald Richard Shaw 1822 – 1899

Archibald Richard Shaw 1822 – 1899 MD Cleveland USA, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, Physician at the Hahnemann Homeopathic Dispensary, Physician at the St. Mary’s Homeopathic Dispensary,

Shaw practiced in America, but came to the UK in 1864 during the American Civil War when he practiced at 1 Carlton Terrace, St. Andrew’s Road, Hastings, and at 32 Marina, St. Leonard’s on Sea,

Shaw is buried in Richmond Cemetary,

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Augustus De Morgan 1806 – 1871

Augustus De Morgan 1806 – 1871 was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan’s laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, and made its idea rigorous. The crater De Morgan on the Moon is named after him.

De Morgan was a patient and friend of James John Garth Wilkinson, and he was also a friend of John Ashburner, William and Mary Howitt, Robert Masters Theobald, Henry Peter Brougham 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux,

De Morgan was a member of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and he was very interested in spiritualism, (writing a book about this with his wife), and Emmanuel Swedenborg, Continue Reading »

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Genevieve Ward 1837 – 1922

Dame Genevieve Ward DBE 1837 – 1922, born Lucy Genevieve Teresa Ward, was an American born soprano and actress. She was created a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1921.

Genevieve Ward was a patient of James John Garth Wilkinson (who signed himself ‘your old doctor‘), and a friend of Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, the the great grand daughter of James John Garth Wilkinson, who often used to visit her with her mother Emma Marsh Wilkinson, and she knew Henry James Junior and his family, who were also great friends of James John Garth Wilkinson,

Genevieve Ward was also a friend of Edward VII, Charles John Keen, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ignaz Moscheles, Charles Reade, Adelaide Ristori, Elizabeth Robins, Fanny Stirling, Oscar Wilde, and of course a great many other famous people from her time. Continue Reading »

Sue :: Feb.04.2010 :: American History :: No Comments »

Robert MacLimont 1825 – 1863

Robert MacLimont ?1825 – 1863 MD University Medical College New York, MRCS 1852, was an American orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy,

MacLimont was a student of John Pattison, a famous British orthodox physician and cancer specialist, affiliated with New York University, who converted to homeopathy, and had over thirteen years and 4000 cases of cancer to report on when he began to publish his reasearch,

MacLimont practiced in Guernsey, where he was in partnership with John Ozanne, and after several years of travel abroad in Rome, Nice and Madeira, he settled in Bath where he was appointed as a Physician at the Bath Homeopathic Hospital,

MacLimont was a colleague of Charles Henry Marston,

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Owen Barfield 1898 – 1997

Owen Barfield 1898 – 1997 was a British philosopher, author, poet, and critic. Barfield was greatly influenced by Rudolf Steiner and was an advocate of Anthroposophical and homeopathic medicine,

Barfield writes about homeopathy in The rediscovery of meaning, and other essays, and he wrote the foreward to Ralph Twentyman’s book The Science and Art of Healing, Continue Reading »

Sue :: Feb.01.2010 :: British History :: No Comments »

George Ponsonby O’Callaghan 2nd Viscount Lismore 1815 – 1898

George Ponsonby O’Callaghan 2nd Viscount Lismore 1815 – 1898, High Sheriff of County Tipperary, Lord Lieutenant of County Tipperary,

Viscount Lismore was a  patron of the of the London Homeopathic Hospital, Continue Reading »

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John Addington Symonds 1807 – 1871

John Addington Symonds senior 1807 – 1871, MD Edinburgh 1828, FRCP, FRSE, was a British orthodox physician, Vice President and President of the British Medical Association, Physician at the Bristol General Hospital, Secretary to the Cholera Commission in Bristol, Lecturer in Forensic Medicine at Bristol Medical School, President of the Public Health Section of the Social Science Congress in Bristol in 1853, and a prolific medical writer, and a major figure in medicine at this time,

At a time when orthodox physicians were proclaiming they would not be seen even talking to a homeopath,  Symonds was a ’secret’ patient of homeopath James Manby Gully, Continue Reading »

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