Edward Hamilton 1824 - 1899
Edward Hamilton MS FLS 1824 - 1899 Physician to the London Homeopathic Hospital, Fellow of the Linnean Society and Zoological Society.
He was a member and treasurer of the British Homeopathic Society, and he practiced at 22 Grafton Street, Bond Street, London.
Edward Hamilton was a student of Frederick Hervey Foster Quin and he lodged in his house from 1834 to 1839. He subsequently became Frederick Hervey Foster Quin’s executor.
Edward Hamilton worked at the Westminster and Lambeth Homeopathic Dispensary alongside Joseph Laurie and Mayne in 1844.
Edward Hamilton 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 Hamilton 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, 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.
In 1851, Edward Hamilton was on the committee of the Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners, and Chair of the 2nd Annual Congress of British Homeopathic Practitioners.
Edward Hamilton wrote the Comparative Results of the Homeopathic and Allopathic Treatment of Asiatic Cholera, A Short History of Cholera, The Flora Homoeopathica, A Guide to the Practice of Homeopathy, A Memoir of Frederick Hervey Foster Quin.
Of interest:
Charles Hamilton was on the Committee of the British Homeopathic Association in 1847.
John Hamilton is mentioned in The Journal of the British Homeopathic Society in 1901.
Robert Hamilton MD was a Physician at the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square and a member of the Hahnemann Medical Society in 1853.
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