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Frederick K. Humphreys 1816 – 1900 homeopath graduated from Pennsylvania Homoeopathic Medical College in Philadelphia and trained by Constantine Hering. Founder of Humphreys Homoeopathic Medicine Co which still exists today as Humphreys’ Pharmacal.

Humphreys was a founder of The Central New York Homoeopathic Medical Society, subsequently The New York State Homoeopathic Medical Society. He was Chairman of the “Bureau for the Augmentation and Improvement of the Materia Medica” of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, and later was called to the chair of Homeopathic Institutes and Practice of Medicine in his old college where he lectured for three years. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Dec.31.2007 :: American History :: No Comments »

Jane Addams 1860 – 1935 was a social reformer who contributed to new ideas of childhood. Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Continue Reading »

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Arvilla B Haynes homeopathic physician and colleague of Mary Safford, Caroline Hastings and Mercy B Jackson, lectured widely on dress reform. Continue Reading »

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The extraordinary Dake family contained any number of doctors and homeopaths, and quite a few orthodox doctors who converted to homeopathy…. Continue Reading »

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Mary Edwards Walker 1832 – 1919: first woman US Army Surgeon. Walker was the only woman graduate of the Syracuse Medical School in 1855 and one of the first women who graduated in homeopathy and medicine in America. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Dec.24.2007 :: American History :: 1 Comment »

Edward Wild 1825 – 1891 was the son of homeopath Charles Wild.

He studied at Harvard Medical School and at Jefferson Medical College and joined the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Massachusetts Society of Homeopathy, where he became a member of several committees.

His homeopathic colleague J T Talbot described him as ‘the most remarkable man who has ever been a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy‘.

Wild gave an address to the American Institute of Homeopathy in 1860 on ‘mind over matter’. Continue Reading »

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

Alice Bunker Stockham 1833 – 1912 homeopath and Victorian reformer, and an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist from Chicago, the fifth woman to be made a doctor in the United States.

Stockham studied at the Eclectic Medical College in Ohio, and the University of Illinois and the Chicago Homeopathic College. Continue Reading »

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

MOSES G ATWOOD 1795? – 1850 New Hampshire’s first homeopath.

Atwood came here from Concord [NH]. He began the practice of medicine in North Lyndeborough in 1827; thence removed to Deering and from Deering to Francestown where he had a very extended practice, probably equal to that of any physician in the county. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Dec.21.2007 :: American History :: No Comments »

The Wesselhoefts were a family of famous homeopaths. The first generation to come to America from Weimar, Germany, Robert Ferdinand Wesselhoeft and William Wesselhoeft, opened the Battleboro Water Cure.

Several sons of this family all became eminent physicians and homeopaths. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Dec.20.2007 :: American History, German History :: 4 Comments »

Marie Zakrzewska 1829 – 1902 was a German born physician of Polish descent who made her name as a pioneering female doctor in the United States.

Zakrzewska confessed to Elizabeth Blackwell her dislike of drugs, admitting that her ‘whole success in practice’ was based on viewing medicines as ’secondary’ often using drugs as placebos.

‘I have the reputation…. as giving hardly any medicine but teaching people how to keep well without it… I can assure you it is far harder, requiring more strength, and more endurance and patience to practice hygiene than what is called medicine’.

Zakrzewska also admits to Blackwell that she uses medicines in ‘infinitesimal doses‘. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Dec.19.2007 :: American History, German History :: No Comments »