I M Lipnitskiy 1914? – 1989? MD was a Russian orthodox physician who converted to homeopath, member of the All Russian Society of Doctor Homeopaths, member of The Moscow Homeopathic Society,
Lipnitskiy was in charge of the 1975 clinical trials into homeopathy in Moscow, that proved successful enough to allow homeopathy to begin its resurgence in modern Russia.
Lipnitskiy practiced in Moscow. Continue Reading »
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Bernay 1854? – 1931? MD was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, a member of the International Homeopathic Congress,
Bernay was a colleague of Rene Baudry, Mauritius Fortier Bernoville, Jean and Henri Boiron, Jean Pierre Gallavardin, J A Lathoud, Charles Mondain, Rouy, Leon Vannier, and many others.
In 1929, several homeopathic physicians in Lyon (Drs. Lathoud, Bernay, and Jean Pierre Gallavardin) asked Rene Baudry to found a laboratory pharmacy specialized in homeopathy. The Laboratoire Général Homéopathique Rhodanien [Rhodanian General Homeopathic Laboratory] was opened on August 1, 1930, at 38, rue Thomassin in Lyon and was taken over by Jean Boiron in 1932.
Bernay submitted cases and articles to various homeopathic publications.
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Charles Francois Gounod 1818 – 1893 was a French composer
Gounod was a friend of Pauline Viardot García, the homeopath Gaston Hoffmann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Adelina Patti,
Thomas R Mackern was the homeopath of Georgina Weldon and her husband, and he was also called to treat Charles Gounod during his illness (as was his colleague Wilberforce Smith), when he was staying with Georgina Weldon,
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C G Kallenbach 1802? – 1880? MD was a German orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, a member of the Central Society of German Homeopathy,
Kallenbach was the homeopathic physician of the bankers Grunelius and Co, William II Elector of Hesse, Moritz August von Bethmann Hollweg, Daniel Heinrich Mumm, Amschel Rothschild, and he was a colleague of Johann Taubes Ritter von Lebenswarth, and he took over his practice in Frankfurt in 1850.
Kallenbach was also a colleague of Friedrich Jakob Rummel, Continue Reading »
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky 1881 – 1958 was the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, the sister of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of Tsar Alexander III.
Kulikovsky was an advocate of homeopathy, Continue Reading »
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Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky 1839 – 1914 was a Russian was a State Councilor, Imperial Chamberlain, and radical publisher, Editor of Grazhdanin, dilettante and writer of high society novels, advisor and Imperial Chamberlain to Tsar Alexander III, a member of the Black Hundreds, who was also a member of the St. Petersburg Society of Homeopaths.
Meshchersky was the grandson of Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, and he was a colleague of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Continue Reading »
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Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev 1827 – 1907, Professor of Civil Law at Moscow State University and de facto head of the Russian Orthodox Church, was a Russian jurist, statesman, adviser to three Tsars, and close friend of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The brochure Pobedonostev used was the one issued by the St. Petersburg Society of Homeopaths entitled Some Brief Information About Homeopathy, and Pobedonostev attached this to The Church Gazette, Tserkovnye Vedomosti, Continue Reading »
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Vladimir von Ditman 1842 – 1904 MD was a Russian orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy against vituperous opposition from allopathic colleagues, and who was granted a homeopathic hospital in St. Petersberg by Tsar Alexander III, Continue Reading »
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Tsar Alexander III 1845 – 1894 reigned as Emperor of Russia from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894.
Tsar Alexander III’s son in law Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky was an advocate of homeopathy, as were his ancestors and descendents Tsar Alexander I, Tsar Alexander II, Tsar Nicholas I, and Tsar Nicholas II,
Tsar Alexander III’s advisor and Imperial Chamberlain Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky was a member of the St. Petersburg Society of Homeopaths, and his tutor Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev was also an advocate of homeopathy,
In 1882, Tsar Alexander III supported Vladimir von Ditman in his request to treat diphtheria homeopathically with mercurius cyanatus, a request seconded by Tsar Alexander III’s Rear Admiral and Adjutant, Otton Richter,
Tsar Alexander III authorised the Alexander II homeopathic hospital on 18.10.1885, in honour of his father, and supported by Tsar Alexander III’s Rear Admiral Vladimir Basargin, his General Dmitry Tsikeln,
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Tsar Nicholas II 1868 – 1918 was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and claimed the title of King of Poland. His official title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias and he is currently regarded as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Tsar Nicholas II was a patient of Gerard Anaclet Vincent Encausse, as was his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and he was attended by a Tartar homeopathy at the end of his life.
Tsar Nicholas II granted a plot of land to the St. Petersburg Society of Homeopathic Physicians in 1905 for the building of a sanitorium,
Tsar Nicholas II’s brother in law Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky was an advocate of homeopathy, as were his ancestors Tsar Alexander I, Tsar Alexander II, Tsar Alexander III, Tsar Nicholas I, and his first cousin George V,
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