Brian Josephson 1940 -
1973 Nobel Prize winner for his Josephson Effect is currently a Professor at Cambridge where he is the head of the mind-matter unification project in the Theory of Condensed Matter research group. Continue Reading »
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C Everett Koop 1916 – had experienced homeopathy as a child, and this inspired him to become a doctor. He understands that the healing process begins with communicative interaction between patient and healer. Continue Reading »
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August Karl Gustav Bier 1861 – 1949 was German surgeon and the pioneer of spinal anaesthesia.
Bier was unusual for being very open minded in his support of homeopathy, even though he came across the same sort of ‘religious cult‘ in science we encounter today. As late as 1925, August Bier was censured by the Berlin medical profession for attempting to rehabilitate Samuel Hahnemann‘s reputation.
Bier kept in close contact with Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz and his work on hormesis, and Bier went on to found the Society for Examination of Homeopathic Drugs.
Bier wrote:
“I advise my colleagues who want to do the latter, not to start with Samuel Hahnemann‘s writings, but first to study the excellent work by Richard Haehl, and at least a few works by Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz…”
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Charles Frederick Menninger 1862 – 1953 founded the Menninger Clinic in Texas was a great proponent of homeopathy. Continue Reading »
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Almroth Edward Wright 1861 – 1947 was a British bacteriologist and immunologist. He is best known for advancing vaccination through the use of autogenous vaccines (prepared from the bacteria harboured by the patient) and also through typhoid vaccination with typhoid bacilli killed by heat.
Wright noted with concern how massive doses of vaccine in therapeutic treatment led to local infections. He called this the ‘negative phase‘, which Hahnemann had identified earlier and called an ‘aggravation‘. Continue Reading »
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John Davidson Rockefeller Senior 1839 – 1937
“Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.” and he was “a believer in homeopathy throughout his life.” “I am a strong homeopathist” Continue Reading »
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Time Online “Founder Hahnemann was given his historic due by no less a personage than Sir William Osler. “No individual,” said Dr. Osler, “has done more good to the medical profession than Samuel Hahnemann.” Continue Reading »
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Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882 was very interested in homeopathy and he received treatment from homeopath James Manby Gully, John Chapman and James Smith Ayerst at Malvern, and Darwin also consulted Frederick William Headland, and Edward Headland,
A staunch advocate of hydrotherapy, Darwin enjoyed treatment from Edward Wickstead Lane (who was married into the famous homeopathic Drysdale family) at Moor Park and Sudbrooke Park, and from Edmund Smith who was a homeopath and the proprietor of Ilkley Wells House, and homeopath William Philip Harrison also a proprietor of the hydrotherapy establishment at Ilkley Wells House,
Darwin’s biographers Adrian Desmond and James Moore describe him as ‘a hard core scientist addicted to quackery‘ (page xx), who was ‘interested in the vital force in living matter‘ (page 159-160). Darwin initially believed that each species had a fixed life span limited by their vital force (page 223), though he soon realised that the new theory of Transmutation meant that there could be no limit to the vital force (page 229). Darwin treated himself with galvanism (page 335) to stimulate his ‘animal electricity’ and to help his poor stomach,
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