John William Hayward 1833 – 1918
John William Hayward ?1833 – ?1918 MD, MRCS, LSA, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become a Surgeon at the Liverpool Homeopathic Dispensary, President of The Liverpool Medico Chirurgical Society, member of the British Homeopathic Society,
In 1878, John William Hayward visited the The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital,
John William Hayward lived at Vernon House, Liverpool,
John William Hayward and John James Drysdale wrote Heating and Comfort in House Building, wherein they regarded physicians as primary agents for change in health, and many medical specialisations followed their lead.
John William Hayward and John James Drysdale explained that healthy houses were to be likened to healthy bodies and healthy living, indeed, they were ‘overlapping systems‘, the houses were built and their designs were presented to the Architectural Society in Liverpool, claiming that living in such houses dramatically improved the health of the occupants.
John William Hayward and John James Drysdale explained that as doctors, they saw the inside of many homes, and they criticised architects for placing their emphasis on aesthetics and not on health.
John William Hayward and John James Drysdale were active in the Domestic Sanitation Movement, and John Wiliam Hayward also went on to contribute to the design of the Liverpool Hahnemann Homeopathic Hospital, the first hospital in the country to contain early hydraulic lifts and an innovative heating and ventilation system.
John William Hayward wrote The African Trade Section of the Incorporated Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool: homeopathic treatment for the malalarial fevers of West Africa, Homeopathy and Malarial Diseases, Homeopathic Hospitals and Dispensaries, The Cachexia of Young Children, Cases from Practice, A Case of Porrigo and Dropsy following Vaccination, Taking Cold, The Vale of Conway Spa, Allopathy and homeopathy contrasted. Medicine: its origin and early history, Allopathy and homeopathy contrasted. Part II. Origin and early history of allopathy, Allopathy and Homeopathy Contrasted Part III. The old and the new systems of medicine contrasted, Heating and Comfort in House Building with John James Drysdale, The essentials of a convenient, confortable and healthy house, Supplement to Health and comfort in house building, The construction of hospitals: for consumption and other infectious diseases, Ventilation, extracts from a paper on ‘hospital construction’, Crotalus (Rattlesnake), Recent pathology, in its bearings on scientific therapeutics, Deafness; its causes, prevention, and cure, How to learn drug pathogenesy, Materia Medica Physiological and Applied, Two Cases of Scalatina Maligna, and he widely contributed articles to various homeopathic publications and to The Lancet,
Of interest:
Charles William Hayward MD, ?son of John William Hayward, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become an ENT Surgeon at the Liverpool Homeopathic Dispensary,
Charles Hayward surgeon to the Ear, Nose and Throat department at the Hahnemann Hospital, Liverpool, UK, delivered a paper to the British Homeopathic Society in 1911 relating the use of ionization in the administering of the homeopathic drug.
By placing a dilute drug solution soaked pad on the skin and passing a current through it infinitesimal portions of the medicines were passed into the minutest cells in the body directly.
Hayward claimed a one per cent solution of cocaine passed into the tissues in this way produced anaesthesia far beyond that attainable by hypodermic injection of even a maximum dose.
G Hayward of Water Lane, Dulwich Road, was on the Management Committee of the Clapham Homeopathic Dispensary in 1855,
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