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Charles West 1816 – 1898

Charles West 1816 – MD Paris 1835, Berlin 1837 was a British orthodox physician who founded Great Ormond Street Hospital, which was of course right next door to the London Homeopathic Hospital.

Charles West reviewed Thomas Graham Balfour‘s clinical trial of homeopathic belladonna in the treatment of scarlatina, and commented on the favourable findings: “To these remarks, I need add nothing. They convey a most important lesson, but one which I fear, we are all too apt to forget in the study and practice of medicine.”

Charles West’s Lectures on the Diseases of Women was favourably reviewed by The North American Journal of Homeopathy for its lack of one sidedness and bigotry.

Charles West was a friend of Lewis Carroll, Edwin Chadwick, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde,

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Thomas Graham Balfour 1813 – 1891

Thomas Graham Balfour 1813 – 1891 MD FRS 1859 – 1873 (1st) Head of the (new) Statistical Branch of the Army Medical Service, 1873 Surgeon General, President of the Royal Statistical Society. Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of London, President of the Royal Statistical Society, Surgeon to the Duke of York’s Asylum Chelsea, Honorary Physician to the Queen.

Balfour’s clinical trial of belladonna resulted in his comment: “Had I given the remedy to all the boys, I should probably have attributed it to the cessation of the epidemic.”

Balfour was a colleague of Florence Nightingale, Sidney Herbert,

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Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville 1780 – 1872

Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville 1780 – 1872 was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women’s participation in science was discouraged.

Somerville was a friend of Charles Babbage, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Mary Everest Boole, John Herschel, and Harriet Martineau.

Somerville was also an active feminist.

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Sue :: Apr.29.2009 :: British History, Italian History :: No Comments »

Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson 1885 – 1970

Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson 1885 – 1970 was a British biologist, writer and mystic, who wrote several papers for homeopathic journals.

Watson was a friend of Owen Barfield, Joseph Conrad, Havelock Ellis, and Carl Gustav Jung. Continue Reading »

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Philip Wynter Wagstaff 1811 – 1894

Philip Wynter Wagstaff 1811 – 1894 MD 1834 was an orthodox physician who was married to a homeopath.

Philip Wynter Wagstaff’s wife was a clairvoyant medium, and a homeopath, and she knew James John Garth Wilkinson, and she was the homeopathic physician of Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer Lytton, the son of Edward Bulwer Lytton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, Joan Severn, a relative of Joseph Severn and a cousin of John Ruskin, William Cowper Temple and his family, and and Rose La Touche. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Apr.28.2009 :: British History :: 2 Comments »

Peter Davidson 1837 – 1915

Peter Davidson 1837 – 1915 was a Scottish musician and violin maker, homeopath, herbalist and publisher, who was associated with the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, founded in 1884.

Davidson was the lifelong publisher of The Morning Star and Mountain Musings, and he organised a World wide network of correspondents, concentrating on agricultural and holistic health practices ‘far ahead of their time’, and he also preached against religious and medical dogmatism.

The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor were the guardians of the innermost secrets of Freemasonry which had been lost to the orthodox and conventional schools of Masonic knowledge.

The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor influenced the founding of the Theosophical Society, The Golden Dawn, and similar instututions all around the World.

Davidson was a colleague of William Alexander Ayton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Thomas Henry Burgoyne, Gerard Anaclet Vincent Encausse, Hargrave Jennings, Kenneth Robert Henderson MacKenzie, Paulos Metamon, Paschal Beverly Randolph, Max Theon, John Yarker. Continue Reading »

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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce 1882 – 1941

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce 1882 – 1941 was an Irish expatriate author of the 20th century.

James Joyce has been referred to as the ‘Homeopathic Romantic’, and reviewers have commented upon the homeopathic, like cures like analogies in Bloom’s dialogue in Ulysses, Episode 15, Circe, and in Joyce’s subtle references to the ‘secret cause’ via Stephen Dedalus.

in 1903, James Joyce briefly studied medicine in Paris.

Carl Gustav Jung was the psychoanalyst of James Joyce’s daughter Lucia, who was briefly romatically involved with Samuel Barclay Beckett, who was a close friend of the Joyce family until he rejected Lucia and married someone else.

Joyce was also a friend of Daniel Nicol Dunlop, and William Butler Yeats.

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Sue :: Apr.27.2009 :: Irish History, Italian History :: No Comments »

John Forbes Innerarity 1813 – 1868

John Forbes Innerarity 1813 – 1868 was a Scottish orthodox physician, born in Mobil America, who converted to homeopathy and returned to America. Continue Reading »

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Gerard Anaclet Vincent Encausse 1865 – 1916

Gerard Anaclet Vincent Encausse 1865 – 1916 MD whose esoteric pseudonym was Papus, was the Spanish born French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism, who founded the modern Martinist Order.