The Blackley Family and Homeopathy
Charles Harrison Blackley and John Galley Blackley, father and son, were influential homeopaths who were colleagues of William Bayes, George Henry Burford, David Dyce Brown, John Henry Clarke, Paul Francois Curie, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, John Epps, Washington Epps, James Johnstone, Richard Hughes, Thomas Robinson Leadam, John Moorhead Byres Moir, Alfred Crosby Pope, Mathias Roth, C T Knox Shaw, Charles Edwin Wheeler, David Wilson, James Craven Wood, Stephen Yeldham and many others.
Charles Harrison Blackley 1820 – 1900 MD Brussels 1874, MRCS Eng. 1858 was a Scottish allopathic physician who suffered very badly with asthma and hay fever. He was a Physician at the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital,
Charles Harrison Blackley was the first person to identify pollens as the cause of hay fever, and the first person to fully describe and study allergens.
He was so impressed by the infinitesimal quantity of allergens required to cause hay fever, that in 1872, he became a homeopath and he became a member the British Homeopathic Society, and he was a Medical Officer at the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary.
Charles Harrison Blackley practiced at 3 Albany Road, Southport, and at Arnside House, Old Trafford, Manchester in 1871.
The chosen model, use of pollen in hay fever, actually comes from the work of a homeopath—Dr Charles Blackley—who, in the 1870s, first identified pollen as the cause of respiratory seasonal allergies…
Charles Darwin was very interested in the work of homeopath Charles Harrison Blackley whose work on allergy, Darwin described as ‘ingenious and profoundly interesting’.
Charles Harrison Blackley wrote Notes on the Etiology of Cancer, Hay fever, its causes and treatments, Experimental researches on the nature and causes of catarrhus aestivus, New Observations on Hay fever, with New Experiments on the Quantity of Ozone in the Atmostphere, Hay Fever.
John Galley Blackley 1850? – 1910? MB London 1869, MRCS Manchester and Vienna, was a Physician for Diseases of the Skin and the Senior Physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital; President, Treasurer and Honorary Secretary of the British Homeopathic Society.
John Galley Blackley studied in Vienna under Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra and Isidor Neumann.
John Galley Blackley practiced at 29 Devonshire Place, London W.
John Galley Blackley was present at the British Congress of Homeopathy in 1878, the World’s Congress of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons in 1894, and he was present at the International Homeopathic Congress in 1896.
John Galley Blackley wrote about Apomorphine, and he submitted cases on typhoid fever and tabes mesenterica with constipation to The Monthly Homeopathic Review in 1883, and cases on diphtheria and Reynaud’s Disease to The Hahnemannian Monthly in 1889, and cases on skin disease to The Monthly Homeopathic Review in 1884, and cases to The Journal of Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics in 1907, and many other publications.
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