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Harold Randall Griffith 1894 – 1985

Harold Randall Griffith 1894 – 1985 was a Canadian anesthesiologist and a leader in the fields of anesthesiology, and he was the Chief of Anesthesia at the Homeopathic Hospital in Montreal, and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia at McGill University.

For thirty years, Griffith was also the Medical Director of the Homeopathic Hospital which would become the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Montreal.

Griffith graduated from McGill University with an MD, CM, in 1922 and a doctorate of Homeopathic Medicine from Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1923.

in 1922, later became the first President of the Canadian Anaesthetist’s Society and the first elected president of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA).

On January 23, 1942 he used curare for the first time during anesthesia to produce muscle relaxation in human patients undergoing surgery. Continue Reading »

Walter R. Brooks 1886 – 1958

Walter R. Brooks 1886 – 1958 was an American writer best remembered for his short stories and children’s books, particularly those about Freddy the Pig and other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the “Bean farm” in upstate New York.

Walter R Brooks studied homeopathic medicine at the Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital, but his success as a children’s author and the creator of Freddy the Pig.

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Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870

Alexandre Dumas born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie 1802 – 1870 was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world.

Both father and son (see below), both called Alexandre Dumas, were advocates of homeopathy and both were patients of Jean Jacques Molin.

Alexander Dumas Junior’s paramour Marie Duplessis was a patient of David Ferdinand Koreff.

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Johann Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz 1766 – 1858

Johann Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz 1766 – 1858 was a Czech nobleman and Austrian general, immortalised by Johann Strauss I‘s Radetzky March.

Radetzky was a patient of homeopath Johann Taubes Ritter von Lebenswarth and Christophe Hartung, a student of Samuel Hahnemann, on the recommendation of Friedrich Jaeger von Jaxtthal (who was  the physician of Klemens Wenzel Prince von Metternich), and the story of his cure of a cancerous tumour in his right eye was written up in Homeopathy Explained by John Henry Clarke in 1841, and in The British Journal of Homeopathy in 1843, and in many other homeopathic journals around the World. Continue Reading »

Henry Valentine Miller 1891 – 1980

Henry Valentine Miller 1891 – 1980 was an American writer and painter.

Miller knew homeopath Rene Felix Eugene Allendy and was profoundly impressed by him. Rene Felix Eugene Allendy was the psychoanalyst of Anaïs Nin.

Miller wrote about homeopathy in his novels Moloch and Sexus, and in his book Hamlet’s Letters. Continue Reading »

Rene Felix Eugene Allendy 1889 – 1942

Rene Felix Eugene Allendy (photo used courtesy of Homéopathe International) 1889 – 1942 was a famous French homeopath. He was a physician at the Leopold Bellan hospital and at the tuberculosis prevention clinics run by Hygiene Sociale de la Seine and the Saint Jacques hospital.

Allendy was a founder with Rene Laforgue, A. Borel, R. Loewenstein, G. Parcheminey, Edouard Pichon and Marie Bonaparte of the psychoanalytical Société of Paris (SPP) in 1926. Continue Reading »

Settimio Centamori 1812 – 1860

Settimio Centamori ?1812 – 1860? MD was an Italian orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy.

Centamori was the homeopath of Charles II Duke of Parma (then Duke of Lucca), and he was awarded the Grand Cross by Pope Gregory XVI for his services.

Cavaliere Settimio Centamori married Christine Charlotte Bonaparte, daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, 1st Prince de Canino and Catherine Christine Elenore Boyer, in 1842 in a secret marriage. Continue Reading »

A J Davet 1797 – 1873

A J Davet 1797 – 1873 was an Italian homeopath who lived and practiced in France, and he was a student and colleague of Samuel Hahnemann in Leipsig.

Davet was the homeopath of Napoleon III, who awarded him the Knight’s Cross of the Legion of Honour. Davet was also the homeopath of the Italian Prime Minister and the Italian Ambassador. Continue Reading »

Charles Pierre Baudelaire 1821 – 1867

Charles Pierre Baudelaire 1821 – 1867 was a nineteenth century French poet, critic and translator.

Baudelaire was a friend of Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Paul Ferdinand Gachet, Theophile Gautier, Victor Hugo, Edouard Manet and many others.

Baudelaire was influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg.

The poet Theophile Gautier, for instance, received hashish samples from Moreau de Tours. In 1843 he described extensively a self-experienced hashish intoxication in the Paris newspaper La Presse under the title ‘Le Club des Hachichins’. The club of hashish eaters, of which Gauthier was one of the founders, had regular meetings in Hôtel Pimodan on the Seine island of St Louis.

He and Charles Baudelaire shared a penthouse in the hotel for several years. Other prominent club members were Alexandre Dumas and Honore Daumier. Further well known contemporaries such as Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert and Victor Hugo participated occasionally.

Baudelaire was born in Paris, France in 1821. His father, a senior civil servant and amateur artist, died during Baudelaire’s childhood in 1827. The following year, his mother, Caroline, thirty four years younger than his father, married Lieutenant Colonel Jacques Aupick, who later became a French ambassador to various noble courts.

The Bonaparte Family and Homeopathy

The Bonaparte family contained many ardent supporters and users of homeopathy, and through their influence, homeopathy became deeply rooted in France, as in the rest of Europe.

The family of Napoleon Bonaparte were friends of Melanie Hahnemann, and they also consulted Rene Felix Eugene Allendy, Jules Bocco, Clemens Maria Franz Baron von Boenninghausen, Alexandre Charge, A J Davet, David Ferdinand Koreff, Francesco Romani, and they knew many homeopathic supporters, and they were eager supporters of homeopathy themselves.

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