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Frances Willard 1839 – 1898 attended the Milwaukee Female College founded by homeopathic supporter Catharine Beecher (sister of homeopathic supporter Harriet Beecher Stowe), and Willard was also educated at the North Western Female Medical College under Bertha Van Hoosen who was trained at the Homeopathic Boston Female Medical College and went onto become the first president of the American Medical Women’s Association. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Nov.30.2007 :: American History :: No Comments »

Carrie Chapman Catt 1859 – 1947 was part of the National Woman Suffrage Association which began when homeopaths Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Caroline Brown Winslow, Susan Ann Edson, Clemence Lozier and homeopathic supporters Lucretia Mott, Susan B Anthony, Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Frances Willard, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Anna Howard Shaw, Martha Coffin Pelham Wright, Mary Wright Sewell, and Josephine S Griffing and others met at Seneca Falls in 1848. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Nov.29.2007 :: American History :: No Comments »

Matilda Joslyn Gage 1826 – 1898

Gage’s father Hezekiah Joslyn was a convert of Swedenborg and an advocate of homeopathy. He corresponded with George Bush, the great granduncle of the current American President:

Mesmer though controversial became quite famous (new metaphysical healing theories were rife and popular throughout the nineteenth-century, including homeopathy—another movement closely frequently studied in connection with Swedenborgian principles), and many Swedenborgians, and most famously George Bush, became enthusiasts. Continue reading: Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Nov.28.2007 :: American History :: 3 Comments »

Martha Coffin Pelham Wright 1806 – 1875 was a firm advocate of homeopathy and attended homeopathic conventions and supported homeopathy all her life. Homeopathy was central to the manifesto of demands for improved health care and human rights at this time.

She was the sister of homeopathic supporter Lucretia Coffiin Mott and cousin to Phoebe Hanaford who was married to homeopath Joseph Hanaford. Pelham Wright has been described as ‘A very Dangerous Woman‘. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Nov.27.2007 :: American History :: No Comments »

Anna Howard Shaw 1847 – 1919 was trained as a doctor at the homeopathic Boston New England Female Medical College.

She was first woman ordained by the Methodist Church, and she became the “master orator” for social justice concerns, organizing and lecturing throughout the world for the causes of temperance, women’s suffrage, and peace.

During her lifetime of 72 years, she gave more than 10,000 lectures worldwide. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Nov.26.2007 :: American History :: No Comments »

Mary Wright Sewell 1797 – 1884 was the mother of Anna Sewell who wrote Black Beauty, and she was a well know author in her own right.

She wrote Mother’s Last Words, Homely Ballards for the Working Man’s Fireside, Our Father’s Care and Thoughts on Education and others. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Nov.25.2007 :: American History :: No Comments »

Josephine S Griffing 1814 – 1872

For two decades, abolitionists and suffragists had worked alongside one another after the Civil War in America, and as a result Griffing was close comrades with homeopaths and homeopathic supporters, as homeopathy was seen as central to the new wave of reform sweeping the country. They all supported one another. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Nov.24.2007 :: American History :: No Comments »

Julia Ward Howe 1819 – 1910 supported homeopathy and regularly spoke out in their favour. Howe was a board member of Clemence Lozier’s homeopathic New York Medical College. Howe spoke at the graduation ceremony of Lozier’s neice, homeopath Charlotte Denman Lozier.

Ward Howe also spoke at the inaugural address for the homeopathic New England Female Medical College, having been a strong supporter of its founder Marie Zakrzewska. Ward Howe was one of the founders of the New England Women’s Club which supported this campaign. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Nov.23.2007 :: American History :: No Comments »

Lucy Stone 1818 – 1893 was a natural born suffragist and abolitionist. She was a friend of homeopath Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a founder member of the National Woman Suffrage Association, and later the American Woman Suffrage Association. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Nov.22.2007 :: American History :: No Comments »

Florence Nightingale’s 1820 – 1910 Notes on Nursing was first published in England in 1859 and in America in 1860, and she says:

“Homeopathy has introduced one essential amelioration in the practice of physic by amateur females; for its rules are excellent, its physicking comparatively harmless–the “globule” is the one grain of folly which appears to be necessary to make any good thing acceptable. Let then women, if they will give medicine, give homeopathic medicine. It won’t do any harm.”

Florence Nightingale was a friend of James Clark, James Vaughan Hughes,

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Sue :: Nov.22.2007 :: British History :: No Comments »