Johan Joseph Wilhelm Lux 1773 - 1849 MD Leipzig, Vetinary Breslau, member of the Homoeopathischer Centralverein.
Lux was the founder of vetinary homeopathy alongside Ernst Ferdinand Rueckert, though later in his life he concentrated upon homeopathic isopathy. Continue Reading »
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Gunther Enderlein 1872 - 1968 was a German zoologist, entomologist and later a manufacturer of pharmaceutical products, and he developed a range of homeopathic and isopathic remedies still in use today, and his Sanum Kehlbeck Company is flourishing.
Enderlein is often called the founder of Isopathic Medicine, though the work of Johan Joseph Wilhelm Lux and Antoine Bechamp does proceed it, and Royal Raymond Rife and Wilhelm von Brehmer also worked in this area. Continue Reading »
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John Keats 1795 – 1821 was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement.
John Keats was a personal friend of Joseph Severn, who nursed Keats in Italy until his death in February 1821. Joseph Severn was a friend of Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, and John Keats also turned to homeopathy for a while. Continue Reading »
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Henry Tate, 1st Baronet 1819 – 1899 was an English sugar merchant from Chorley, noted for establishing the Tate Gallery in London.
Henry Tate funded the Liverpool Homeopathic Hospital in 1886. Henry Tate also funded the Hahnemann Hospital and Dispensary in London. Henry Tate was the Deputy Chairman of the Liverpool Homeopathic Hospital. Henry Tate’s wife continued to support homeopathy throughout her life. Continue Reading »
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Jean Jacques Molin 1797 - 1849 MD Strausberg 1831 Medical Officer at the thermal springs at Luxeuil, member of the Societe des Sciences Physiques et Arts in Paris and the Lower Rhine, publisher of the Journal de la Doctrine Hahnemannien, member of the Spanish Medical Institute, member of the Brazilian Homeopathic Medical Academy, Secretary and President of the Societe de Medicine Homeopathique. Continue Reading »
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Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant 1804 – 1876, best known by her pseudonym George Sand was a French novelist and feminist.
George Sand was a patient of homeopath Jean Jacques Molin, and she lived around the corner from Melanie Hahnemann and was her contempory. She was a friend of Franz Liszt and Marie D’Agoult, and the lover of Frederic Chopin. Continue Reading »
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Richard Stafford Cripps 1889 – 1952 was a British Labour politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer from November 1947 to October 1950.
Stafford Cripps Stafford Cripps had homeopathic treatment whilst in India, and was an associate of homeopathic supporters Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sri Aurobindo. Cripps was a vegetarian, and he suffered from recurring illness which was alleviated by nature cure and a vegetarian diet.
Stafford Cripps was a colleague of homeopathic supporters Aneurin Bevan, Victor Gollancz (who was the publisher of Ivy Compton Burnett), and as President of the Fabian Society, he knew homeopathic supporters Herbert George Wells, Havelock Ellis, Sidney and Beatrice Webb and George Bernard Shaw.
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The Tuckey family contributed two homeopathic consultants and two allopathic physicians. One of them became the first hypnotist in Britain. Continue Reading »
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Charles Ransford 1813? - 1870? MD LRCS Edin. 1833, FRCP Edin. 1853, Examiner and Treasurer of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, Physician to the Edinburgh Western and Royal Dispensary, Physician at the York Homeopathic Dispensary, Extraordinary Member and President of the Royal Medical Society in Edinburgh, member of the Haveian Society, Secretary of the Edinburgh Obstetric Society, Member of The Northern Homeopathic Association.
Charles Ransford was an orthodox Physician who converted to homeopathy. Continue Reading »
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The Wielobycki brothers were Polish patriots who escaped Poland and came to Britain in 1839.
The brothers both trained as doctors in Edinburgh and went onto become homeopaths, one in London and one in Edinburgh. Continue Reading »
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