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John Tyndall 1820 – 1893

John Tyndall FRS 1820 – 1893 was a prominent 19th century physicist.

John Tyndall was a friend of Thomas Carlyle, John Chapman, Charles Darwin, Hermann von Helmholtz, Thomas Henry Huxley, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Robert Owen, Herbert Spencer, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and James John Garth Wilkinson.

Thomas Carlyle evangelised homeopathy to John Tyndall, who knew many homeopaths and homeopathic supporters, including Thomas Henry Huxley, Edward Bulwer Lytton, and James John Garth Wilkinson.

John Tyndall was also a contributor to John Chapman‘s Westminster Review, to which many homeopathic supporters contributed.

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Anthony Trollope 1815 – 1882

Anthony Trollope 1815 – 1882 became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era.

Anthony Trollope and his family were advocates of homeopathy.

Anthony Trollope was a friend of Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George MacDonald, Laurence Oliphant, Bessie Rayner Parkes, John Ruskin, William Makepeace Thackeray.

Trollope’s friend Julian Hawthorne was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. Continue Reading »

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev 1818 – 1883

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev 1818 – 1883 was a Russian novelist and playwright.

Turgenev was a friend of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy.

Turgenev wrote about homeopathy in his novel Father’s and Sons, and in Phantoms and Other Stories.

Turgenev studied Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and he had a life long affair with Pauline Viardot García. Pauline Viardot García was a friend of Louis Hector Berlioz, Frederic Chopin, Adelaide Kemble, Jenny Lind, Giacomo Meyerbeer and Clara Schumann (who was a personal friend of Samuel Hahnemann and his wife Melanie).

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Victor Marie Hugo 1802 – 1885

Victor Marie Hugo 1802 – 1885 was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

Victor Hugo’s hero Francois Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand was a homeopathic supporter, and his mistress Juliette Drouet told him in a letter dated 11.3.1852 that ‘no homeopathy could cure‘ her heartache after their separation. Juliette Drouet consulted homeopath Paul Ferdinand Gachet.

Victor Hugo was a friend of Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Louis Hector Berlioz, Sarah Bernhardt, Paul Cezanne, Benjamin Disraeli, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Theophile Gautier, David Ferdinand Koreff, Franz Liszt, Victor Schoelcher, Jules Verne, Emile Zola, Continue Reading »

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Jules Bocco 1808 – 1873

Jules Bocco 1808? – 1873? was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become the homeopath of Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III and his wife Eugenie de Montijo, and of Joseph Bonaparte.

Of interest:

Jules Bocco was the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication of the Bureau of the World Heritage Committee in 1998.

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Jean Pierre Gallavardin 1825 – 1898

Jean Pierre Gallavardin 1825 – 1898 was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to gain international renown. Gallavardin was a Physician at the Homeopathic Hospital in Lyons.

Gallavardin set up a homeopathic Dispensary for the cure of alcoholics, often working in conjunction with priests, and he wrote several books on this subject.

Gallavardin recommends Petroleum for use with skeptics of homeopathy, as we live in a petrol society and imbibe this substance as a greater part of our energy and live in a plastic World.

In 1861, Jean Pierre Gallavardin published a report into clinical trials of homeopathy which had been conducted in eight French hospitals, These clinical trials had been conducted over a period of fifteen years, involving 20,000 patients, and compared homeopathy and allopathy, the results of which were published ‘openly in the face of the whole World’. Continue Reading »

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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828 – 1910

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828 – 1910 was a Russian writer widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists.

Tolstoy wrote about homeopathy in War and Peace, The Cossacks, Sevastopol, the Invaders and Other Stories, and in The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Tolstoy’s wife Sopia wrote about homeopathy in her diaries, and Sergei Tolstoy also writes about homeopathy in his Tolstoy Remembered.

Tolstoy was influenced by Henry David Thoreau, and he was a friend of Anton Chekhov, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and his friend Ivan Turgenev also wrote about homeopathy in his Phantoms and Other Stories, and in Father’s and Sons.

Tolstoy also met Charles William Daniel, Rosalie Slaughter Morton, and Alice Bunker Stockham.

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William Blake 1757 – 1827

William Blake 1757 – 1827 was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

William Blake was a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Augustus Tulk, James John Garth Wilkinson,

William Blake also knew Erasmus Alvey Darwin, and he engraved more than 100 figures for the Wedgwood catalogue in 1815,

James John Garth Wilkinson was a Homeopathic physician, translator and biographer of Swedenborg (based on the work of Emanuel Swedenborg), and a writer on a variety of religious, medical and social topics. He edited the first letter press edition of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. Continue Reading »

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Henry Crabb Robinson 1762 – 1867

Henry Crabb Robinson 1762 – 1867 diarist, was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England. He became the first war correspondent when The Times of London dispatched him to cover Napoleon Bonaparte‘s Peninsular Campaign in Spain.