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Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix 1798 – 1863

Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix 1798 –  1863Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix 1798 –  1863 was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

Delacroix was a friend of Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Georges de Bellio, Frederic Chopin, Theophile Gautier, David Ferdinand Koreff, Thomas Lawrence, Edouard Manet, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph duc de Morny, Pierre Auguste Renoir, James de Rothschild, Talleyrand, Continue Reading »

Nicholas Gabrilovich 1865 – 1941

Nicholas Gabrilovich 1865 - 1941Nicholas Gabrilovich 1865 – 1941 was a Russian orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a member of the St. Petersburg Society of Homeopathic Physicians, Vice President of the Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis in the 1930s.

Gabrilovich ran a sanitorium in St. Petersberg, and it was due to Gabrilovich that the St. Petersburg Society of Homeopathic Physicians survived the Bolshevik revolution, as in 1923, he reconstucted it as the Leningrad Society of Homeopathic Doctors (Leningradskoe Obshchestvo vrachei gomeopatov or LOVG).

Gabrilovich was a colleague of L. Brazol, V. Ripke, A. Rogachevsky, G. Sidorenko and pharmacists B. Borel, D. Leont’ev, K. Solov’ev, A. Stsitnik, I. Stempleling and P. Shchedrin and many others.

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Hugh Frederick Vaughan Campbell 4th Earl Cawdor 1870 – 1914

Cawdor CastleHugh Frederick Vaughan Campbell 4th Earl Cawdor 1870 – 1914, descendant of the legendary Macbeth, Thane of Cawdor.

Cawdor was a patron of homeopathy, launching in 1909, a National Homeopathic Fund of £50,000 alongside Robert Henryson Caird, Richard Walter Hely Hutchinson 6th Earl of Donoughmore, the Earl of Dysart, Robert Grosvenor 1st Baron Ebury, Sir John Knill, Robert William Perks, John Pakenham Stilwell, and George Wyatt Truscott, which successully raised enough money to renovate the London Homeopathic Hospital.

Cawdor was the Chairman of the British Homeopathic Association, President, Treasurer and Chairman of the London Homeopathic Hospital, and his wife Countess Cawdor was involved in the Ladies Homeopathic Guild.

In 1901, Cawdor obtained permission to open a school of homeopathy with the blessing of Queen Victoria.

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Robert William Perks 1st Baronet 1849 – 1934

Robert William PerksSir Robert William Perks 1st Baronet 1849 – 1934 was a British politician, the Liberal M.P for Louth in Lincolnshire, and one of the most important lay Methodists of his generation, who wrote widely about the Methodist Church, and who was the Treasurer of the Wesleyan Methodist Twentieth Century Million Fund, and President of his local homeopathic committee,

Robert William Perks was a major advocate and sponsor of homeopathy, and he was a friend of George Taylor Stewart, and John Henry Clarke, John Pakenham Stilwell, George Wyatt Truscott, Margaret Lucy Tyler, John Weir, Charles Edwin Wheeler, Dudley d’Auvergne Wright,

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Edith Anna Œnone Somerville 1858 – 1949

Somerville and RossEdith Anna Œnone Somerville 1858 – 1949 was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as “E. Œ. Somerville”. She wrote in collaboration with her cousin “Martin Ross” (Violet Martin) under the pseudonym, “Somerville and Ross”.

Edith Somerville was an advocate of homeopathy, as was Violet Martin. Somerville was a patient of Robert H Perks, Continue Reading »

Johann Taubes Ritter von Lebenswarth 1803 – 1879

Frankfurt 1850Johann Taubes Ritter von Lebenswarth (Taube) 1803 – 1879 was a German Regimental doctor and orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy,

Taubes was awarded the The Order of the Iron CrownOrder of the Iron Crown, and he was the Physician in Ordinary to Johann Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz, the Vice Gerent Archduke John of Austria, and the homeopathic practitioner of the bankers Grunelius and Co, Moritz August von Bethmann Hollweg, Daniel Heinrich Mumm, and Amschel Rothschild, Continue Reading »

Francis I of Naples 1777 – 1830

Francis I of Naples 1777 –  1830Francis I (Francesco Gennaro Giuseppe), 1777 –  1830 was King of the Two Sicilies from 1825 to 1830.

Francis I was a patient of Cosmo Maria De Horatiis, as was his daughter Maria Christina, and his wife, Maria Isabella was a patient of Georg von Necker,

In 1829, Francis I issued a Royal Decree to open a homeopathic clinic and conduct clinical trials into homeopathy, and he had plans to open a homeopathic hospital in Naples, and he introduced homeopathy into the Military Hospital of the Trinity. Continue Reading »

Karl Jakob Adam 1797 – 1865

RussiaKarl Jakob Adam 1797? – 1865? MD was a German orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, and who introduced homeopathy into Russia.

Adam was a student of Samuel Hahnemann, and a member of Samuel Hahnemann’s Provers Union which consisted of Carl Gottlob Caspari, Carl Franz, Gustav Wilhelm Gross, Frantz Hartmann, Carl Gottlob Helbig, Christian Theodore Herrmann, Christian Gottlob HornburgErnst Kummer, Christian Freidrich Langhammer, Viet Meyer, Ernst Ferdinand Rueckert, Friedrich Jakob Rummel, John Ernst Stapf, Teuthorn, Oscar D Tietze,

In 1824, Dr. Adam, who had become acquainted one year before to Samuel Hahnemann, arrived in Russia from Germany. [...]. He introduced to homeopathy Dr. Scherring, who later became the Chief physician of the Special Guardian Board… Adam did practice homeopathy but also called it “specific treatment” and, most probably, was never involved in the open struggle with allopaths. The next and the last time we hear about him is when Carl Bojanus mentions that he took part in the activity of the Commission created by the State Council in 1833…

Henri Leroux 1790 – 1881

ParisHenri Leroux (Le Roux) (Roux) (Le d’Roux) 1790? – 1881? MD was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy.

Leroux was a student of Samuel Hahnemann, Continue Reading »

Armand Trousseau 1801 – 1867

Armand Trousseau 1801 -  1867Armand Trousseau 1801 1867 was a French internist. His contributions to medicine include Trousseau sign of malignancy, Trousseau sign of latent tetany, Trousseau Lallemand bodies (an archaic synonym for Bence Jones cylinders), and the truism, “use new drugs quickly, while they still work.”

Armand Trousseau was ‘no friend to homeopathy, but too wise and too honest a man to refuse to learn from his opponents‘.

In 1834, Trousseau commented that homeopaths were ‘”Honorable men, friends in whose good faith we have confidence” even though they practice a system which is “speculative” and “against scientific principles“‘.

Homeopaths responded that they were confident in the great Trousseau, with his candour and love of science, to fully investigate the doctrines of homeopathy. Continue Reading »

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