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 James Manby Gully over many years.
Charles Darwin attended Shrewsbury School with Richard Corfield, the brother of the famous homeopathic chemist Charles Corfield, and Charles Darwin stayed in Richard Corfield’s home in Valparaiso in 1834 and in 1835,
Darwin also consulted Frederick William Headland in 1860, the son of Edward Headland (who bravely raised the subject of homeopathy before the Medical Society of London in 1827 and again in 1849) and the nephew of William Headland (member of the British Homeopathic Society, described by his homeopathic colleagues as ‘our first chemist‘ and ‘our chief homeopathic chemist‘),
Darwin investigated homeopathic dilutions (1860) and continued his studies on Drosera until 1881
“I care more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in the world. But I will not publish on Drosera till next year, for I am frightened & astounded at my results.”
On 15.12.1880, Darwin accepted membership of homeopath Giovanni Ettore Mengozzi’s La Scuola Italica,
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