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Edward Cronin 1801 – 1882

Edward Cronin 1801 – 1882 MD Dublin 1828, was a pioneer of homeopathy in England and one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement.

Edward Cronin was on the Medical Council of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square alongside William Henry Ashurst, W T Berger, A E Blest, W A Case, James Chapman, John Chapman, Edward Charles Chepmell, Clare, Paul Francois Curie, J M Douglas, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Thomas Engall, John Epps, George Fearon, G H Fletcher, John Fowler, Gill, Joseph Glover, F L R Suss Hahnemann, Robert Hamilton, Joseph Hands, Sydney Hanson, Amos Henriques, Thomas Higgs, JT H Johnstone, Henry Kelsall, Joseph Laurie, Charles Powell Leslie, Henry Victor Malan, John Miller, Augustus Henry Moreton, G P Nichols, Chas Pasley, Paterson, A P Phelps, George Rogers, J Rogers, Mathias Roth, Frederick Sandoz, Phillip Sandoz, W Stephenson, Samuel Sugden, Allan Templeton, Major Tyndale, William Warne, A Wilkinson, James John Garth Wilkinson, David Wilson, S Wilson, George Wyld,

Edward Cronin was also on the Management Committee of the English Homeopathic Association alongside William Henry Ashurst, John Burnett, Paul Francois Curie, A O Deacon, Robert S Dick, George Napoleon Epps, John Epps, Robert Frith, Joseph Glover, Robert Grosvenor, George Hayes, Thomas H Johnstone, Henry KelsallJohn Miller, Henry P Osman, William MacOubrey, Charles Thomas Pearce, William Perkins, George K Prince, James Stansfeld, Peter Stuart, Allan Templeton, James Thomson, William Warne, James Wilson,

Edward Cronin was also a member of the Hahnemann Medical Society,

Edward Cronin practiced at Claremont House, Brixton Road.

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James P Gelston 1824 – 1893

James P Gelston 1824? – 1893? MD was a British orthodox physician and surgeon who converted to homeopathy to become a member of The Homeopathic Medico Chirurgical Society of Liverpool.

Gelston practiced in the Liverpool Homeopathic Dispensary alongside John Chapman, Henry Cresswell, John James Drysdale, William Gwynn, John William Hayward, John Murray Moore, Platt, Raphael Roche, Adrian Stokes, Willans, Wright.

Gelston was also a colleague of Andral, George Atkin, Cassanova, Grossman, Harvey, John Rutherford RussellTonnerre,

In 1852, James Gelston lived in Wheeler’s Place Belfast.

Gelston submitted cases and articles to various homeopathic publications.

Adrian Stokes 1821 – 1876

Adrian Stokes 1821? – 1876 MD Edinburgh 1844, Professor, was a British orthodox physician and President of the  Gloucester Medical Association, who converted to homeopathy to become Secretary of the British Homeopathic Society, Physician at the North of England Southport Children’s Sanatorium, Physician at the Liverpool Homeopathic Dispensary for the Poor,

Stokes came under great criticism from the Gloucester Medical Association when he converted to homeopathy, as he was their President, and he was forced to retire from that position by his allopathic colleagues. Stokes was also the nephew of the late President of the Gloucester Medical Association, Continue Reading »

Caspar Julius Jenichen 1787 – 1849

Caspar Julius Jenichen 1787 – 1849 was a German lay homeopathic practitioner, a veterinary and horse trainer for the Duke Ernst of Gotha and Baron von Biel by profession, who experimented with the preparation of high potency remedies.

Possibly due to the upset this caused, counter claim and counter claim, or possibly due to pain caused by his techniques, Jenichen committed suicide in February, 1849.

Jenichen was a colleague of Constantine Hering, Gustav Wilhelm Gross, Charles Julius Hempel, Karl Ferdinand Kuchler, Rentsch, John Ernst Stapf,

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Frances Power Cobbe 1822 – 1904

Frances Power Cobbe 1822 – 1904 was an Irish writer who was a social reformer, feminist theorist and pioneer animal rights activist.

Frances Power Cobbe was a friend of Rosa Bonheur, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Harriet Hosmer, Anna Bonus Kingsford, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Arthur de Noe Walker, Continue Reading »

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood 1904 – 1986

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood 1904 – 1986 was an Anglo American novelist.

Isherwood knew many homeopaths as he was growing up because his parents were enthusiasts about homeopathy, as he explains in his novel Kathleen and Frank.

Isherwood was a friend of Aldous Huxley, John Egerton Christmas Piper, Igor Stravinsky,

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Cramoisy 1815 – 1882

Cramoisy 1815? – 1882? MD was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a Physician at the Hopital Hahnemann in Paris, and the Archivist of the Societe Medicale homœopathique de France.

In 1869, Cramoisy was decorated as a Chevalier of the Order of Charles III.

Cramoisy was a colleague of Bazin, Paul Francois Curie, and Chanet, A Cretin, Fredault, Gounard, Pierre Jousset, Love, Reuben Ludlam, L Molin, Charles Ozanam, Perry, Jean Paul Tessier,

Cramoisy practiced at 16 Rue du Faubourg du Temple.

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Harold Edgar Tyrwhitt 1890 – 1960

Reverend Harold Edgar Tyrwhitt 1890? – 1960? was a British lay homeopath, a chemist and druggist, Trywhitt was also a Theosophist, who also lived in India, and in Minehead in Somerset.

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Karl Adolph Knorre 1799 – 1870

Karl Adolph Knorre 1799 – 1870 was an Estonian orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy

Knorre was a student of Samuel Hahnemann, and a member of Samuel Hahnemann’s Prover’s Union.

Knorre practiced in Parnu.

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Carl Julius Aegidi 1795 – 1874

Carl Julius Aegidi 1795 – 1874 (photo used courtesy of Homéopathe International) was a German orthodox physician and army surgeon who converted to homeopathy to become the founder of the first Paediatric Homeopathic Hospital, under the patronage of Princess Fredericka of Prussia, called the Asylum for Sick Orphans in Konigsburg.

Aegidi was a patient and student of Samuel Hahnemann, and a member of Samuel Hahnemann’s Prover’s Union.

Aegidi was a colleague of  Clemens Maria Franz Baron von Boenninghausen, Johann Carl Ludwig Genzke, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, John Ernst Stapf,

Samuel Hahnemann arranged for Aegidi to become the homeopathic physician of Princess Fredericka of Prussia, and Samuel Hahnemann wrote to Aegidi at some length to advise him on how to make a profit from homeopathic practice.

Aegidi favoured giving homeopathic remedies in water, and he also experimented with two remedies at the same time (Dual remedies), and had a lengthy correspondence with Samuel Hahnemann on this subject, though Samuel Hahnemann eventually decided to reject this method, and in a footnote to Aphorism 272 of the 5th Organon, Samuel Hahnemann wrote “Some homeopathists have made the experiment, in cases where they deemed one remedy homeopathically suitable for one portion of the symptoms of a case of disease, and a second for another portion, of administering both remedies at the same time; but I earnestly deprecate such a hazardous experiment, which can never be necessary, though it may sometimes seem to be of use“.

Aegidi practiced in Dusseldorf, Konigsburg and Berlin.

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