Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992 was a German-born American actress, singer and entertainer. She is regarded as the first German actress to become successful in Hollywood.
Marlene Dietrich was a strong advocate of homeopathy, and she sent remedies to Georges Pompidou. Her personal homeopath was Elizabeth Wright Hubbard.
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The Mitchell surname provides five jobbing homeopaths; one Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology, and later of Renal Diseases at the Chicago Homœopathic Medical College and the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago; a President of the Homeopathic Medical College of the University of Boston; a Professor at the New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital; a Chair of Obstetrics at the Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia; a Lecturer on Surgical and Pathological Anatomy and Professor of Physiology and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago; and one orthodox doctor who wrote about homeopathy. Continue Reading »
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Howard Roy Chislett 1862 - Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery in Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, Attending Surgeon to Cook County Hospital and Streeter Hospital Continue Reading »
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James Russell Lowell 1819 -1891 was an American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, diplomat, and abolitionist.
Lowell was actively involved in publications concerning homeopathy.
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With thanks to BBC 22.4.08
A drug widely used to treat cancer may cause brain damage, with the effects lasting for years after the end of treatment, research suggests. The drug, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), is used, alongside others, to treat cancers of the breast, ovaries, colon, stomach, pancreas and bladder.Tests on mice showed it destroys vital cells in the brain that help to keep nerves functioning properly.
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With thanks to the New York Times 16.4.08
The drug maker Merck drafted dozens of research studies for a best-selling drug, then lined up prestigious doctors to put their names on the reports before publication, according to an article to be published Wednesday in a leading medical journal.
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The Gilbert surname has given us ten jobbing homeopaths; a Professor of a Homeopathy College; a United States Examining Surgeon, member of the Board of Censors of Detroit Homœopathic College, Coroner of Bay County and President of the Advisory Board of Pardons and President of the Saginaw Valley Homœopathic Medical Society; another Coroner of Bay County; the editor and publisher of the Homeopathic Times; and a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Homœopathic Medical College of Missouri. Continue Reading »
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Francis Hodgson Atlanta Orme 1834 - 1913 President of American Institute of Homœopathy, Orme successfully fought the Yellow Fever epidemics in the South and he was a member of the Homœopathic Yellow Fever Commission in 1878. Orme was a working homeopath for forty years. Continue Reading »
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The Wright surname contributed three jobbing homeopaths, one British Bacteriologist who acknowledged homeopathy as an inspiration, a Chair of Hygiene at the New York Homeopathic College; a Surgeon at the Buffalo Homœopathic Hospital and a President of the American Institute of Homeopathy; one Lecturer on Physiology at the Detroit Homœopathic College and Lecturer on Principles of Surgery at the Grace Hospital training school for nurses; a Staff Physician at Conneaut General Hospital; two famous abolitionists and political activists; the first woman President of the American Institute of Homeopathy; and one orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy to become President of the Kings County Homeopathic Medical Society and the New York State Homeopathic Society, Vice President of the New York State Homœopathic Medical Society and Professor of Diseases of Children at the Hahnemann Hospital of the City of New York.
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Joel Thompson Boone 1889 - 1974 was the homeopathic physician of Warren G Harding and Calvin Coolidge alongside Charles Elmer Sawyer, and also to Herbert Hoover.
He was also a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy. Continue Reading »
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