Douglas Morris Borland 1885 – 1960 was an influential British homeopath. In 1908, he studied with James Tyler Kent in Chicago, and he brought Kentian homeopathy back to England. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Aug.31.2008 :: British History :: 2 Comments »
Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich von Hufeland 1762-1836 was the Counsellor of State and the Physician in Ordinary to the King of Prussia, and Professor in the University of Berlin, and he was a contemporary and personal friend of Samuel Hahnemann.
Hufeland became a staunch advocate of homeopathy, and he was responsible for publishing Samuel Hahnemann’s articles on homeopathy, the very first time the word homeopathy was ever used. Hufeland was the personal physician of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,
Hufeland has been described as the ‘greatest German clinician of the late 18th century‘.
Hufeland “never lost respect for Sameul Hahnemann’s genius and services to medicine.”
Sue :: Aug.30.2008 :: German History :: No Comments »
John Ernst Stapf 1788 – 1860 was a German orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a pupil and colleague of Samuel Hahnemann, and a member of Samuel Hahnemann’s Provers’ Union.
John Ernst Stapf was the homeopath of Queen Adelaide, and he taught William and Robert Wesselhoeft.
John Ernst Stapf was a colleague of Clemens Maria Franz Baron von Boenninghausen, Ernst von Brunnow, Carl Franz, Philip Wilhelm Ludwig Greisselich, Gustav Wilhelm Gross, Carl Georg Christian Hartlaub, Frantz Hartmann, Christian Gottlob Hornburg, Christian Freidrich Langhammer, Georg August Heinrich Muhlenbein, Alphonse Noack, Karl Friedrich Gottfried Trinks and many others.
Sue :: Aug.29.2008 :: German History :: No Comments »
Herbert George Wells 1866 – 1946 better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer most famous today for the science fiction novels he published between 1895 and 1901.
He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary.
He was an outspoken socialist, his later works becoming increasingly political and didactic.
Wells was a friend of Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, and Mary Everest Boole, the daughter of homeopath Thomas Roupell Everest, and he was also close friend of George Bernard Shaw and Henry James Junior, and he studied under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Royal College of Science, now part of Imperial College London. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Aug.28.2008 :: British History :: No Comments »
Havelock Ellis 1859 – 1939 was a British doctor, sexual psychologist and social reformer
Havelock Ellis and his wife Edith Lees Ellis were profoundly influenced by James Hinton, who studied homeopathy, as Havelock Ellis explains in his book Three Modern Seers.
Havelock Ellis took homeopathic remedies and understood homeopathy sufficiently to use it as an analogy in his book Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
Havelock Ellis was a correspondent of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson.
Sue :: Aug.27.2008 :: British History :: No Comments »
Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851 and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822 were amongst the influential movers and shakers of Victorian England. Their legacy for British fiction is immense.
Mary Shelley and her children used homeopathy and consulted homeopathic physicians. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Aug.26.2008 :: British History :: No Comments »
William Bell Scott 1811 – 1890 British poet and artist, son of Robert Scott, the engraver, and brother of David Scott, the painter, was born in Edinburgh.
William Bell Scott was a friend of the famous homeopathic Epps family, and of homeopath James John Garth Wilkinson.
Ellen Elliott Epps was a school friend of William Bell Scott’s wife. William Bell Scott introduced the Epps family to William Michael Rossetti.
Sue :: Aug.25.2008 :: British History :: No Comments »
Edmund William Gosse 1849 – 1928 was an English poet, author and critic, the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes.
Edmund Gosse was married to Ellen Nellie Epps (a close friend of Siegfried Sassoon’s mother) whose brother Washington Epps was a famous homeopath.
Ellen Nellie Epps was the daughter of George Napoleon Epps. John Epps, Ellen Nellie Epps’s uncle in law, was a famous homeopath, and James Epps, and another of Ellen Nellie Epps’s uncle in law’s was the famous homeopathic chemist. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Aug.24.2008 :: British History :: No Comments »
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC 1886 – 1967 was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I. He later won acclaim for his prose work.
Siegfried Sassoon wrote about homeopathy in his book Sherston’s Progress, and he was a great friend of homeopathic supporters Robert Graves and Thomas Hardy.
Sassoon was also close to Edmund William Gosse who was married to Ellen Nellie Epps (a close friend of Sassoon’s mother) whose brother Washington Epps was a famous homeopath. Ellen Nellie Epps was the daughter of homeopath George Napoleon Epps. John Epps, Ellen Nellie Epps’s uncle in law, was also a famous homeopath, and James Epps, another of Ellen Nellie Epps’s uncle in law’s was the famous homeopathic chemist. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Aug.23.2008 :: British History :: No Comments »
Robert Ranke Graves 1895 – 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works.
He was the son of the Anglo-Irish writer Alfred Perceval Graves and Amalie von Ranke, a niece of the famous German historian Leopold von Ranke. He was the brother of the author Charles Patrick Graves and half-brother of Philip Perceval Graves.
Robert Graves and his lover Laura Riding both took homeopathic remedies.
Robert Graves was also a friend of Indries Shah,
Sue :: Aug.22.2008 :: British History :: No Comments »
