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 “never lost respect for Sameul Hahnemann’s genius and services to medicine.”
Sue :: Aug.30.2008 :: European History :: No Comments »
With thanks to the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation 29.8.08:
The country’s first Homeopathy Hospital will be declared open at Welisary today. The hospital is situated at Shelton Jayasinghe Mawatha. Before this it operated only as a homeopathy treatment centre.
The ministry of indigenous medicine says the centre has been upgraded to provide resident treatment. The ministry plans to setup homeopathy treatment centres at divisional secretariat level.
The hospital will be declared open by Minister Tissa Karaliadda at 2.00 this afternoon.
Sue :: Aug.29.2008 :: homeopathy abroad :: No Comments »
With thanks to National Geographic Christine Dell’Amore National Geographic News August 14 2008:
Dinosaur hunters have stumbled across the largest and oldest Stone Age cemetery in the Sahara desert. Paleontologist Paul Sereno and his team were scouring the rocks between harsh dunes in northern Niger in 2000 when they stumbled across the graveyard, on the shores of a long-gone lake.
Sue :: Aug.29.2008 :: History :: No Comments »
John Ernst Stapf 1788 - 1860 was a pupil and colleague of Samuel Hahnemann, and a member of Samuel Hahnemann’s Provers’ Union, and he was the homeopath of Queen Adelaide.
Stapf taught William and Robert Wesselhoeft. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Aug.29.2008 :: European History :: No Comments »
I have just stumbledupon this fabulous site with loads of pictures of ancient lost cities.
This photographic collection is awesome and must have taken a great deal of collecting. Do take some time to visit this site and look around.
There is a brief explanation of each site and lots of pictures. The sites range from well known places such as Abu Simbel, to lesser known places like Sanchi, and little known cities, for example Lothal.
This World just gets more interesting!
Sue :: Aug.28.2008 :: 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 Mary Everest Boole, the daughter of homeopath Thomas Roupell Everest, and he was a close friend of George Bernard Shaw and Henry James, 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. Continue Reading »
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 »
