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Paul Wolf 1795 – 1857

Paul Wolf 1795 – 1857 MD was a was a German Jewish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy.

Paul Wolf was a student of Samuel Hahnemann,and a colleague of Frantz Hartmann, Matthias Marenzeller and Friedrich Edmund Peithner Ritter von Lichtenfels, who practiced in Dresden.

Paul Wolf was a member of the Central Association of Homeopaths in Leipsig, alongside Albrecht, Baumann, Ernst von Brunnow, Pierre Dufresne, Anton Fischer, Carl Franz, Gaumann, Gustav Wilhelm Gross, Comte Sebastien Gaeten Salvador Maxime Des Guidi, Carl Georg Christian Hartlaub, Frantz Hartmann, Carl Haubold, Hofrath, Kretschmar, Kruger Hansen, Johan Joseph Wilhelm Lux, Moritz Wilhelm Mueller, Muhlenbein, Charles Gaspard Peschier, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Gottlieb Martin Wilhelm Ludwig Rau, Rohl, Mathias Roth, Ernst Ferdinand Rueckert, Rummel, John Ernst Stapf, Suffert, Karl Friedrich Gottfried Trinks, George Adolph Weber, Friedrich Wolf, Continue Reading »

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Joseph Halla 1814 – 1887

Joseph Halla 1814 – 1887 was a Czech orthodox physician who was Dean of the Medical Faculty at the Charles University in Prague.

Halla co-operated with Elias Altschul in the examination of homeopathic graduates. Continue Reading »

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John Hoyer Updike 1932 – 2009

John Hoyer Updike 1932 – 2009 was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

John Updike wrote about homeopathy in his Rabbit novels (Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit Angstrom, Rabbit Run), and in The Centaur and Toward the End of Time.

In his On Literary Biography, Updike records that Jerome David Salinger is an advocate of homeopathy. Continue Reading »

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Ferenc Franz Hausmann 1811 – 1876

Ferenc Franz Hausmann 1811 – 1876 was a German Hungarian orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become extremely influential in establishing of homeopathy on both sides of the Atlantic.

Hausmann was the Medical Director of the Homeopathic Hospital in Pest, and in charge of an Institute for the testing of homeopathic remedies. Hausmann was a principle prover of coloycynth.

Hausmann’s work was far ahead of its time, and in 1889, The Homeopathic World compared his writings to Emanual Swedenburg. Continue Reading »

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Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882

Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882 was an Italian military and political figure.

Garibaldi was a friend of John Epps, Lajos Kossuth, Giuseppe Mazzini, Aurelio Saffi, James Stansfeld, Peter Stuart, Tullio Suzzara Verdi, and Edward Augustus Wild. Continue Reading »

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Edward VIII 1894 – 1972

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, The Duke of Windsor) 1894 – 1972 was King of the United Kingdom and the British dominions, and Emperor of India from 20 January 1936, following the death of his father, George V, until his abdication on 11 December 1936.

John Weir was homeopath to seven monarchs, Physician Royal to George V, Gustav V, Edward VII, Edward VIII, George VI, Queen Elizabeth II, and Haakon VII of Norway.

Edward VIII carried his homeopathic doses in powder form around with him in his pocket.

Edward VIII was also a patient of Thomas Jeeves Horder. Continue Reading »

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Marie Carmichael Stopes 1880 – 1958

Marie Carmichael Stopes Sc.D., Ph.D. 1880 – 1958 was a Scottish author, eugenicist, campaigner for women’s rights and pioneer in the field of family planning.

Marie Stopes sought homeopathic treatment for her breast cancer in Bavaria in 1957.

Marie Stopes was a friend of James Barr, Alfred Bruce Douglas and George Bernard Shaw. Continue Reading »

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Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) 1857 – 1924 was a Polish novelist, writing in English.

Joseph Conrad was a distant cousin of Alexander Poradowski, whom he met in Belgium in 1890. Joseph Conrad and Alexander Poradowski were also related to Alice Gachet, the cousin of homeopath Paul Ferdinand Gachet.

Marie Poradowska was the neice of Paul Ferdinand Gachet, and Joseph Conrad consulted Paul Ferdinand Gachet.

Joseph Conrad wrote about homeopathy in his A Smile of Fortune.

Joseph Conrad was a friend of Henry James Jnr and Arthur William Symons.

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John Galsworthy 1867 – 1933

John Galsworthy OM 1867 – 1933 was an English novelist and playwright. John Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932.

John Galsworthy was an advocate of homeopathy. In his novel Beyond, he claimed that homeopathy was based on ‘poetic justice‘, and he also wrote about homeopathy in his book Tattermedalion.

John Galsworthy was a friend of Arnold Bennett, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Margaret Sanger, George Bernard Shaw, and Herbert George Wells.

John Galsworthy’s wife Ada Nemesis Pearson consulted a homeopathy in Torquay, and her brother was a homeopath who treated Edward Brian Seago. John Galsworthy’s father’s friends were also interested in homeopathy.

John Galsworthy was an Anti Vivisectionist, and he wrote to the Manchester Guardian supporting displaced German homeopaths after World War I. Continue Reading »

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Ignaz Moscheles 1794 – 1870

(Isaac) Ignaz Moscheles 1794 – 1870 was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.