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Peter Stuart 1788? – 1888, known as the the “Ditton Doctor”, a Liverpool shipowner, merchant, he laid the foundation for a vast Imperial trade for the British Empire, and as a lay homeopath, he devoted one afternoon a week for forty years to dispense homeopathic medication to the poor.

Peter Stuart founded the firm Stuart and Douglas on the Brass River in West Africa, and he banished the slave trade from that region – ‘he was proud of the fact that he never made a cent out of the slave trade‘,

Peter Stuart was a profound and generous Patron of homeopathy, and he was on the Management Committee of the English Homeopathic Association, and he also procured many homeopathic relics, which his sons Mazzini and Orsini Stuart donated to the Hahnemann House Museum in Powis Place, beside the London Homeopathic Hospital.

Peter Stuart was also fascinated by phrenology and he was a friend of Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini, Felice Orsini, and many others, including Lajos Kossuth,

Peter Stuart was also a friend of John Epps (who was the homeopathic practitioner of his sister), Thomas Simpson, and many others, and he corresponded with Samuel Hahnemann, and Clemens Maria Franz Baron von Boenninghausen,

Peter Stuart’s son Mazzini Stuart wrote an extensive biography of his father, reproduced on the website of Homeopathe International by Francis Treuherz and Sylvain Cazalet.

Peter Stuart joined the British Navy and served under Horatio Nelson and fought at the Battle of Trafalgar. Back in Liverpool after this decisive battle, he trained as a cooper, spending his free time in study. He eventually he took up the cause of Italian unification, the abolition of slavery, ‘he was proud of the fact that he never made a cent out of the slave trade‘, and for the abolition of the Corn Laws.

Peter Stuart met Peter Douglas and together they founded the firm of Stuart and Douglas on the Brass River in West Africa, where they banished the slave trade from that region.

Peter Stuart also took a close interest in European politics, supporting Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini, and involving himself in their campaigns,

Peter Stuart was on the Management Committee of the English Homeopathic Association alongside William Henry Ashurst, John Burnett, Edward Cronin, 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 Kelsall, John Miller, William MacOubrey, Henry P Osman, Charles Thomas Pearce, William Perkins, George K Prince, James Stansfeld, Allan Templeton, James Thomson, William Warne, James Wilson,

The English Homeopathic Association petitioned Parliament in defense of Charles Thomas Pearce, about the outrage of such false accusations, especially as there was no redress in law for the damage done to the defendant. The petition was seconded by John Epps, in the company of William Henry Ashurst, John Burnett, Edward Cronin, Paul Francois Curie, A O Deacon, Robert S Dick, George Napoleon Epps, Robert Frith, Joseph Glover, Robert Grosvenor, George Hayes, Thomas H Johnstone, Henry Kelsall, John Miller, Henry P Osman,, William MacOubrey, Charles Thomas Pearce, William Perkins, George K Prince, James Stansfeld, Peter Stuart, Allan Templeton, James Thomson, William Warne, and James Wilson.

Of interest:

The Lung Disease of Cattle; or pleuro pneumonia cured by homeopathy, Henry Turner 1856 discussed some work done by William Haycock, who first noticed this disease in 1842, George Edward Allshorn, Charles W Luther and John Rush, who also had experience treating this disease.

Farmers had been losing thousands of cattle to this disease, Charles W Luther estimated that 6 out of every 10 cattle so affected could be cured. Peter Stuart also was using homeopathy at this time and treated up to 180 cows with this disease, saving about 130 of them. George Edward Allshorn used aconite and bryonia and estimated he had saved 17 out of every 20 cows he treated.

Peter Stuart was the father of Bellamy Stuart, Cromwell Stuart, Hahnemann Stuart, Mazzini Stuart, Milton Stuart, Orsini Stuart, Peter Stuart, Rachel Stuart, and Selina Stuart.

Mazzini Stuart , son of Peter Stuart – 1888, was also a keen advocate of homeopathy:

… was a keen homœopathist, and, in conjunction with his brother Orsini, is the donor of the freehold property known as Hahnemann House, which adjoins the London Homeopathic Hospital. In making a gift of Hahnemann House his idea was to provide an Hahnemann Museum, which would become a centre of interest to all Homeopathic doctors. He has also contributed a number of Hahnemannian relics, which form the basis of a permanent collection.

Orsini Stuart , son of Peter Stuart – 1888, was a keen advocate of homeopathy, and he was on the Committee of the Liverpool Hahnemann Hospital.

Peter Stuart – 1917 MD was a son of Peter Stuart – 1888, who practiced as a pure Hahnemannian homeopath,

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