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David Wilson LRSC Edin. MRCS Edin. 1811 - 1889 Surgeon at the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square, member of the Westminster Medical Society, Medical officer of the Westminster and St. George Free Dispensary for consumption and diseases of the chest at 22 Davies Mews, member of the British Homeopathic Society and the Hahnemann Society.

David Wilson was also a Medical Officer at the Metropolitan Homeopathic Hospital for the Diseases of Chilredn and Vaccine establishment at 18, Orchard Street and New Road in 1855.

David Wilson was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy after thirteen years practice as an allopath.

David Wilson was a severe skeptic against homeopathy who wrote to the Lancet to contribute an article called grandmother meddlesome. David Wilson explains that his conversion to homeopathy was due to John Forbes, the editor of The British and Foreign Medical Review and Physician to the Queen’s Household, who was himself converted by William Henderson of Edinburgh, Physician of the Royal Infirmary who wrote a book on homeopathy which David Wilson read.

David Wilson practiced at 22 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London. He was the Treasurer of the British Institute of Homeopathy in 1855.

David Wilson 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.

David Wilson was also a colleague of William Edward Ayerst, Hugh Cameron, John Chapman, Matthew James Chapman, Edward Charles Chepmell, 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, Stephen Yeldham and many others.

In 1851, David Wilson was on the committee of the Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners. In 1864 David Wilson became an Honorary member of the Homeopathic Society of the State of New York.

David Wilson was the homeopath of Elizabeth Cady Stanton when she visited England in 1883, on the recommendation of her brother in law Edward Bayard. Elizabeth Cady Stanton also consulted Edward William Berridge.

David Wilson was an active contributor to The British Journal of Homeopathy in 1863, the Homeopathic Times and The Lancet (in 1843), The British Homeopathic Review, and his articles and cases were widely quoted around the World.

With thanks to Peter Morrell: David Wilson:

In contrast to devotees of high potency, for doctors like “Drysdale…low dilutions did best and he found no advantage above the 3rd decimal,” [3; 184]. Thus the 3x became the officially approved and standard tool of UK homeopathic practice from 1830 to 1900.

The early UK homeopaths therefore comprised “a remarkably able cohort of 3x men – Stephen Yeldham, John Galley Blackley, John Moorhead Byres Moir, Washington Epps, Knox Shaw… to which we can also add the names of “John Epps, Paul Francois Curie, David Wilson as well as Alfred Pope, Richard Hughes, David Dyce Brown,” [4; 123], “William Bayes, Thomas Robinson Leadam and Robert Ellis Dudgeon,” [4; 119].

Robert Ellis Dudgeon, for example, was “critical of Hahnemann’s Psora theory and of dynamisation,” [3; 181], and he was not very happy either about the increasing use of nosodes. In reporting to colleagues on his US trip to the American Institute of Homeopathy Congress in 1876, Richard Hughes “was discouraging about Cooper’s introduction of new remedies…Adolph Lippe and Constantine Hering…came in for unfavourable comment, and so did Charles Julius Hempel, who was accused of Swedenborgian mysticism,” [3; 187]