The Tuckey Family and Homeopathy
The Tuckey family contributed two homeopathic consultants and two allopathic physicians. One of them became the first hypnotist in Britain.
Abraham Tuckey ?brother of Thomas P Tuckey Physician at the Bantry Union Hospital 1853.
Charles Caulfield Tuckey 1819 - 1895 father of Charles Lloyd Tuckey Licentiate in Midwifery 1839, LRCS Dublin 1840, AB MB Dublin 1841, Physician to Castletown Roche Dispensary, Surgeon at the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital, member of the Dublin Medico Chirurgical Society, member of The Northern Homeopathic Medical Association and Physician at the Preston Homeopathic Dispensary.
Charles Caulfield Tuckey practiced in Bow Lane, Fishergate Hill, Preston, and he also practiced in Canterbury.
Charles Caulfield Tuckey’s Obituary is in The British Homeopathic Journal in 1895.
In 1858 a Festival in aid of the London Homeopathic Hospital was held 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, John Rutherford Russell, Charles Caulfield Tuckey, George Wyld, Stephen Yeldham, and many others.
Charles Caulfield Tuckey wrote A Dialogue on Homeopathy.
Charles Lloyd Tuckey 1855 - 1925 MB Aberdeen 1875 son of Charles Caulfield Tuckey Assistant Physician to the London Homeopathic Hospital, member of The British Homeopathic Society.
Charles Lloyd Tuckey resided at 88, Park Street, Grosvenor Square, London.
Charles Lloyd Tuckey was interested in hypnotism, and in 1880, Charles Lloyd Tuckey visited Ambroise Liebeault in order to observe his work with hypnotism, and he became the first Briton to study and adopt the the Nancy School and to become a pioneer of hypnotism in this country.
Charles Lloyd Tuckey attended an International Homeopathic Assembly in 1881 where he spoke for Spain.
Charles Lloyd Tuckey was a correspondent of Richard Francis Burton, who wrote to thank Tuckey for the gift of a copy of his Psycho-therapeutics.
Charles Lloyd Tuckey also treated Alice James, the daughter of Henry James (Am J Psychiatry 1982 139: 1079). Alice James’ brother William James was an ardent supporter of homeopathy and he recommended Charles Lloyd Tuckey to his sister.
Charles Lloyd Tuckey was a member of the Society for Psychical Research in the 1890s. He was also a member of The Golden Dawn alongside Edward William Berridge and Robert Masters Theobald.
Charles Lloyd Tuckey’s Obituary is in The Journal of the Society for Psychical Research in 1925.
Charles Lloyd Tuckey wrote The Value of Hypnotism in Chronic Alcoholism, Treatment by Hypnotism and Suggestion, Treatment by suggestion, The applications of hypnotism, Psycho-therapeutics, Hypnotism and Disease with Hugh Crichton Miller - the founder of the Tavistock Clinic, and articles and cases to The British Journal of Homeopathy, The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, The Medical Record , The North American Journal of Homeopathy and The British Medical Journal.
Thomas P Tuckey 1818? - 1893? ?brother of Abraham Tuckey of County Cork, Ireland, Physician of the Bantry Union Hospital 1885, wrote a paper on The Preventative Treatment of Cleft Palate and Hare Lip, and he sent the statistics of the Bantry Union Hospital to America where they were published by the American Foundation for Homeopathy in 1849.
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