Sara Josephine Baker 1873 – 1945
Sara Josephine Baker 1873 – 1945 was an orthodox doctor who happily worked alongside homeopaths. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.30.2008 :: American History :: No Comments »
Archive for June, 2008
Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
Charles Babbage FRS 1791 – 1871 born in Marylebone, London, England was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer, though Simon Korsakoff did actually pre-empt him.
From 1828 to 1839 Babbage was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. He contributed largely to several scientific periodicals, and was instrumental in founding the Royal Astronomical Society in 1820 and the Royal Statistical Society in 1834.
Charles Babbage was a close friend of homeopaths and homeopathic supporters, he was the teacher of Mary Everest Boole, the daughter of his friend homeopath Thomas Roupell Everest. Mary Everest Boole was married to mathematician George Boole.
Charles Babbage was a friend of Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace and Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville, and he was part of a social set which included many homeopaths and homeopathic supporters including Charles Darwin and his brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin, Harriet Martineau, homeopath Moncure Daniel Conway, Charles Lyell, George Everest and his brother, homeopath Thomas Roupell Everest, Robert Everest (?brother of George and Thomas, a geographer who lived in India), Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Henry Huxley, publisher John Chapman and Charles Dickens. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.29.2008 :: British History :: 1 Comment »
The Ward Surname and Homeopathy
The Ward surname contributed five jobbing homeopaths; one eclectic physician; one Consulting Physician at the Binghamton City Hospital; a social reformer and activist; the first woman ever elected to membership of the American College of Surgeons, Vice President of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and Professor of Obstetrics at Hahnemann Medical College in San Francisco; an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy to become Chair of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and of Medical Jurisprudence in the Homeopathic Medical College of Philadelphia, one of the founders of the New York Homeopathic College, a second Chair of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and of Medical Jurisprudence in the Homeopathic Medical College of Philadelphia; a Professor of Theory and Practice in the New York Homeopathic Medical College; a Dean and Professor of Abdominal and Pelvic Surgery at the Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific and Resident Physician to Ward’s Island Homeopathic Hospital; and another orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy to become Professor of Physiology in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.28.2008 :: American History :: No Comments »
Margaret Lucy Tyler 1875 – 1943
Margaret Lucy Tyler 1875 – 1943 was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. Margaret Tyler has become one of the most influential homeopaths of all time.
Henry Whatley Tyler, the father of Margaret Lucy Tyler, was interested in homeopathy and contributed large sums of money for the expansion of the London Homeopathic Hospital.
“When her father, the late Henry Whatley Tyler, gave the Tyler Wing to the London Homeopathic Hospital, he told her “I have done my part: now you must do yours.” [Margaret Lucy Tyler: An Appreciation John Weir, in Homeopathy 1943]
Margaret Lucy Tyler’s mother later consolidated this link as the ‘Sir Henry Tyler Scholarship’, a Trust Fund to send young doctors over to the USA for further training in homeopathy.
Sue :: Jun.27.2008 :: British History :: No Comments »
Reuben Ludlam 1831 – 1899
Reuben Ludlam 1831 – 1899 was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy to become one of the founders of the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, where he was Dean and Chair of Physiology, Pathology, and Clinical Medicine, Physician in Charge of the Woman’s Department of the Scammon Hospital, President of the American Institute of Homeopathy, associate editor of the North American Homœopathic Quarterly, editor in charge of the obstetrical department of the United States Medical and Surgical Journal, editor of the Chicago Homeopath and and the Clinique. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.26.2008 :: American History :: No Comments »
William Makepeace Thackeray 1811 – 1863
William Makepeace Thackeray 1811 – 1863 was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
Thackeray was an advocate of homeopathy and a friend of numerous homeopaths and homeopathic supporters.
William Makepeace Thackeray and his family were patients of Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, and his mother was also an advocate of homeopathy. William Makepeace Thackeray was also a patient of John Elliotson. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.25.2008 :: British History :: No Comments »
Walter Williamson 1811 – 1871
Walter Williamson 1811 – 1871 was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy to become one of the founders and a Professor of the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania, the first institution in the country to teach homeopathy. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.24.2008 :: American History :: No Comments »
Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
Robert Koch 1843 – 1910 was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the vibrio cholera (1883) and for his development of Koch’s postulates.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his tuberculosis findings in 1905.
The claim that Robert Koch ‘borrowed’ his groundbreaking ideas from homeopathy is not new. It was made at the time by homeopaths who criticized him for taking certain parts of their method and then misapplying them, and by allopaths who viciously attacked him for ‘being a homeopath’, and Koch was condemned with outrage because of this ‘incredible humiliation’.
Sue :: Jun.23.2008 :: German History :: No Comments »
The Roosevelt Family and Homeopathy
The Roosevelt Family were homeopaths and supporters of homeopathy, and this family also provided two American Presidents. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.22.2008 :: American History :: No Comments »
John Weir 1879 – 1971
Sir John Weir, GCVO, Royal Victorian Chain 1879 – 1971 MB ChB Glasgow 1907, FFHom 1943, Physician Royal to several twentieth century monarchs.
John Weir was Consultant Physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1910, and he was appointed the Compton Burnett Professor of Materia Medica in 1911. He was President of the Faculty of Homeopathy in 1923.
Weir was homeopath to seven monarchs, Physician Royal to George V, Gustaf V of Sweden, Edward VII, Edward VIII, George VI, Queen Elizabeth II, and Haakon VII of Norway (who awarded him the 
Knight Grand Cross of St. Olav in 1938).
Weir was also a close friend of Almroth Edward Wright. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.21.2008 :: British History :: No Comments »