Edward Charles Chepmell 1820 - 1885
Edward Charles Chepmell MD Edin. 1820 - 1885 born Germany? and lived in Middx? Physician to the Islington Homeopathic Dispensary at 20 Claremont Place, New Road, Angel Inslington, and Physician to the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square, Resident Physician at the London Homeopathic Medical Institution at 17 Hanover Square in 1845, member of the Medical Council of the London Homeopathic Hospital, member of the British Homeopathic Society in 1847, and an Honorary Member of the British Homeopathic Association in1849, and member of the Hahnneman Medical Society at 39 Bloomsbury Square, and member of the Hahnemann Publishing Society.
Edward Charles Chepmell practiced at 13 Maddox Street, Bond Street in 1851 and at 22 Henrieta Street, Cavendish Square, London in 1859. He also visited Paris in 1850, where he treated several cases, and in the same year, he attended the Homeopathic Congress in Cheltenham.
Edward Charles Chepmell was active in the foundation of the London Homeopathic Hospital, which was established at 32 Golden Square in 1851. He was a was a colleague of Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, the first President of the British Homeopathic Society, and Marmaduke Blake Sampson, the Chairman of the British Homeopathic Association, and many other homeopaths.
Edward Chepmell was present at the Festival in aid of the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1858 with many Aristocratic and minor gentry patrons attending, alongside Dr. Ayerst, William Bayes, Hugh Cameron, William Vallancy Drury, George Napoleon Epps, Arthur Guinness, Edward Hamilton, Frantz Hartmann, Amos Henriques, Joseph Kidd, Thomas Robinson Leadam, J Bell Metcalfe, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Henry Reynolds, John Rutherford Russell, Charles Caulfield Tuckey, George Wyld, Stephen Yeldham, and many others.
Edward Charles Chepmell was also a colleague of William Edward Ayerst, Hugh Cameron, John Chapman, Matthew James Chapman, Paul Francois Curie, William Vallancy Drury, George Napoleon Epps, James Epps, John Epps, James Manby Gully, Edward Hamilton, George Calvert Holland, Richard Hughes, Joseph Kidd, Thomas Robinson Leadam, Victor Massol, J Bell Metcalfe, Samuel Thomas Partridge, Henry Reynolds, John Rutherford Russell, David Wilson, Stephen Yeldham and many others.
Edward Charles Chepmell died while travelling in Florence in 1885 and his obituary is in The British Homeopathic Review and The Monthly Homeopathic Review in 1885. The Lancet also published his will and obituary in 1885.
Edward Charles Chepmell wrote A Domestic Homeopathy, Hints for the Practical Study of the Homeopathic Method, and many other articles and publications.
Of interest:
H L M Chepmell is mentioned in The concluding task of the disciples of homeopathy in 1849. (?Havilland Le Mesurier Chepmell?)
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