John Rutherford Russell 1816 - 1867
John Rutherford Russell (MD Edin. 1838) 1816 - 1867 Physician of Edinburgh Homeopathic Dispensary, Physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital, member of the Royal Medical Society, member of the Pennsylvania Homeopathic Medical College, Fellow of the British Homeopathic Association, and editor of the British Journal of Homeopathy with John James Drysdale and Robert Ellis Dudgeon from 1846 to 1884.
John Rutherford Russell practiced at 17 York Terrace, Leamington and at 3 Harley Street.
John Rutherford Russell studied under Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Fleischman in Vienna with John James Drysdale. John James Drysdale and John Rutherford Russell were fellow students with Robert Ellis Dudgeon in Vienna. The three also edited the British Journal of Homeopathy from 1846-84 after which it ceased.
James John Garth Wilkinson reports that John Rutherford Russell was the first homeopath to use cobra venom as a homeopathic remedy for diseases of the heart valves.
John Rutherford Russell 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, Edward Charles Chepmell, 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, Charles Caulfield Tuckey, George Wyld, Stephen Yeldham, and many others.
John Rutherford Russell 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, David Wilson, Stephen Yeldham and many others.
John Chapman, George Atkin, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin and Robert Ellis Dudgeon, John Rutherford Russell, James W Metcalfe and an anonymous ‘friend’ put together a Directory of British and Foreign Homeopaths and their supporters to counter the suppression of all mention of homeopaths and their supporters by the editors of the London and Provincial Medical Directory in 1853.
In 1853 John Rutherford Russell married Georgina Isabella Maxwell.
John Rutherford Russell was a friend of George MacDonald and a colleague of John Epps and George Napoleon Epps, and he attended a dinner in honour of Frederick Hervey Foster Quin in 1861, alonside William Edward Ayerst, Hugh Cameron, Matthew James Chapman, Edward Charles Chepmell, Edward Hamilton, Amos Henriques, George Calvert Holland, Henry Kelsall, Joseph Kidd, Thomas Robinson Leadam, J Bell Metcalfe, George Wyld, Stephen Yeldham, William Bayes, and many others.
John Rutherford Russell wrote Defence of Hahnemann and His Doctrines, On the Respiratory System of Nerves, Considered as the Vehicle of General Sympathy, The History and Heroes of the Art of Medicine, Introduction to the Study of Homeopathy edited with John James Drysdale and Fletchers Elements of Pathology with John James Drysdale, editor of Homeopathy in 1851, and various articles to the British Journal of Homeopathy and other publications.
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