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Alfred Crosby Pope 1830 – 1908

Alfred Crosby Pope 1830 – 1908 MD St. Andrews 1847, MRCSE England, was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become a Physician at the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital, Member Royal College of Surgeons of England, General Secretary and Treasurer of the Northern Homeopathic Medical Association, Medical Officer at the Blackhealth Homeopathic Dispensary, and a Fellow of the British Homeopathic Society,

Alfred Pope was active in homeopathic politics, and was the Co Editor of The Monthly Homeopathic Review alongside William Bayes, and John Ryan.

Alfred Pope was awarded a MD from the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1852, and he was a Lecturer in Materia Medica at the London School of Homeopathy (later merged with the London Homeopathic Hospital), and he was President Elect of the British Homeopathic Congress in 1876 and in 1877, and a staunch defender of homeopathy for over forty years. Continue Reading »

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Henry Tudor Edmunds 1899 – 1987

Henry Tudor Edmunds 1899? – 1987? MB, BSc, MRCS, LRCP, trained at Kings College London Dental Hospital, and the (Tropical) Diseases Hospital London. was a British General Practitioner who practiced in Slough.

Tudor Edmunds was a Vice President of the The London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination in 1883, and he was still a member in 1952, alongside Henry Valentine Knaggs, Erich Kurt Ledermann, Dorothy Shepherd and Harold Fergie Woods and many others.

Tudor Edmunds was Chairman of the Science Group of the Theosophical Research Centre.

Medical education in London and then Kings College London Dental Hospital completed and has been working in the (Tropical) Diseases Hospital London. Group of the Center for Research in Science Thosophical Society London as a member of the Board of Directors has worked and published articles in publications of the center.

In 1979, Tudor Edmunds had retired, and he was still writing about his reminiscences of treating a local Gypsy population. He recounts how he learnt most of his knowledge of ‘old cures’ from his grandmother, and she had learnt them from her grandmother, and these were mostly Romany ‘cures’.

Tudor Edmunds wrote Mass Vaccination, The Influence of the Unconcious on Healing, Psychism and the Unconscious Mind, A world in revolution; the Blavatsky lecture delivered at the Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society, Drugs: Their Uses and Dangers, Drugs: some questions and answers,

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Joseph Gilioli 1813 – 1867

Joseph Gilioli ?1813 – ?1867 MD, LLD, was an ?Italian whorthodox physicio practiced in Britain, who converted to homeopathy, to become a Treasurer and a member of the British Homeopathic Society.

Gilioli was a colleague of John Chapman, Edward Charles Chepmell, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Thomas Engall, Edward Hamilton, George James Hilbers, Joseph Kidd, Edward M Madden, Henry R Madden, Victor Massol, Jas Bell Metcalfe, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, and many others.

Gilioli practiced at 46 Great Marlborough Street.

Gilioli married Ellen Elizabeth Hillyer in 1844, and they had a son in 1846

Gilioli wrote On the New medical School and the causes that prevent it being more generally adopted by medical men, A View of a Reformed System of Medical Practice, and he submitted many cases and articles to various homeopathic publications.

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The Kemble Sisters and Homeopathy

Adelaide Kemble 1815 – 1879 was a British opera singer of great promise in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Frances Anne Kemble 1809 – 1893 was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century.

Adelaide and Fanny Kemble were sisters who advocated homeopathy.

Adelaide Kemble was a friend of Frederic Chopin, Julia Margaret Cameron, Pauline Viardot García, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Ivan Turgenev. Her son Algernon married Ellie, the daughter of Ulysses Simpson Grant.

Fanny Kemble was a friend of Eliza Middleton Fisher. Continue Reading »

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Richard Cobden 1804 – 1865 was a British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright and George Wilson in the formation of the Anti Corn Law League as well as with the Cobden Chevalier Treaty.

Richard Cobden was also a colleague of Louis Bonaparte, William Cullen Bryant, George Combe, Moncure Daniel Conway, Benjamin Disraeli, Jean Barthelemy Arles Dufour, John Epps, William Gladstone, Harriet Martineau, and Henry Palmerston. Continue Reading »

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John Bright 1811 – 1889

John Bright 1811 – 1889 Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden and George Wilson in the formation of the Anti Corn Law League.

He was one of the greatest orators of his generation, and a strong critic of British foreign policy, and he coined the phrase ‘England is the Mother of Parliaments’.

John Bright was an advocate of homeopathy and a patient of Joseph Kidd, and Thomas Hahnemann Hayle, and Thomas Mackern,

John Bright was a colleague of Robert Peel, and John Bright objected to laws on compulsory vaccination, alongside John Hunter, Robert Peel, Herbert Spencer, William Gladstone, and Lord Salisbury. Continue Reading »

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Ethelbert Petrie Hoyle 1861 – 1955

Ethelbert Petrie Hoyle 1861 – 1955 was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy as a boy, being taught by his family doctor Thomas Hahnemann Hayle who knew Samuel Hahnemann personally.