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Timothy Field Allen 1837 - 1902 was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy to become one of the most important homeopaths of all time.

Allen was Professor of Chemistry at the New York Medical College, Professor of Anatomy at the New York Homeopathic College, a colleague of William T Helmuth (coeditor with William T Helmuth of New York Journal of Homeopathy) and a partner of Carroll Dunham.

His books are still important today and well used by modern homeopaths.

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Sue :: Jan.31.2008 :: American History :: No Comments »

With thanks to Bob Leckridge on Heroes Not Zombies

Robert Coles in “The Call of Stories”

Stories have always fascinated me. I love them. Every day when I sit in my consulting room patients tell me the most amazing, fascinating and unique stories.

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Mary Woodbury Lacy 1825 -  was a working homeopath trained at the Homeopathic New York Medical College for Women and she practiced homeopathy in Ithaca, New York area for twenty years. Continue Reading »

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James Easton was the first black homeopath in America. His father James Easton senior was a leading abolitionist and known a the Black Lawyer, and his brother Hosea Easton was also a political activist.

James Easton senior’s grandson Benjamin Roberts, one of the first African American printers led an initially unsuccessful but ultimately revolutionary court case Roberts v. the Boston School Committee to allow his daughter to be admitted to a white school.

James Easton’s brother in law Robert Roberts became politically active when his brother in laws were sold back into slavery after the American Civil War.

Another relative Paul Cuffe is most commonly known for his work in aiding free Negroes who wanted to emigrate to Sierra Leone.

His son (?) James Fender Easton 1879 - was also a doctor and was examined by the West Virginia Dept. of Health in 1915

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Caroline Wells Healey Dall 1822 - 1912 was a supporter of homeopathy and a friend of homeopathic supporters Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Peabody and Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis. Her biography of Marie Zakrzewska was dedicated to homeopathic supporter Samuel E Sewall and the New England Female Medical College. Continue Reading »

Sue :: Jan.29.2008 :: American History :: No Comments »

With thanks to the Daily Telegraph 11.1.08

Doctors are to be told to stop prescribing antibiotics for coughs, colds and sore throats because over-use of the drugs is fuelling the spread of killer hospital superbugs.

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The surname Bartlett came to America about 1643 and by the 1840s when homeopathy was just beginning to explode on the American stage, there were many homeopaths with this surname, and as of now it is impossible to say if they were related or not. Continue Reading »

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Alice Boole Campbell - 1909 was one of the first women to graduate from Clemence Lozier’s New York Homeopathic College in 1863, and she served on the governing board. She was Consulting Physician at the Women’s Homeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia and a founder of the Eastern District Homeopathic Hospital and the Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn, which came into being when women doctors were refused a clinic in the existing hospitals. Campbell was also part of the campaign to found the New York Inebriate Asylum and the Women’s National Hospital. Continue Reading »

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Henry C. Allen 1836-1909 was Professor of Diseases of the Skin and Miasmatics and founder of the Hering Medical College, City Physician at the Baptist Hospital and the Hering Hospital, an honorable senior of the American Institute of Homeopathy, a member of the International Hahnemannian Association, the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association, the Englewood Homeopathic Medical Society, the Regular Homeopathic Medical Society of Chicago, Honorary Vice-President of the Cooper Club of London, England, Honorary Member of the Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio State Medical Societies and Honorary Member of the Homeopathic Society of Calcutta, India. Continue Reading »

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Harriette C Keatinge 1837 - 1909 had ten physicians in her immediate family, six of them women. Harriette was Clemence Lozier’s neice and successor, and she practiced with her daughter Harriette D’Esmond Keatinge, she was the first woman to address the House of Representatives in Louisiana on the suffrage cause. Continue Reading »

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