Charles Guest 1826 – 1863
Charles Guest 1826 – 1863 was a British pharmacist who converted to homeopathy and practiced in Bristol,
Charles Guest also advertised in The Lancet, Continue Reading »
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John Spriggs Morss Churchill 1801 – 1875
John Spriggs Morss Churchill 1801 – 1875 publisher of homeopathic and hydropathy books and The Lancet,
John Churchill was a close friend of James Manby Gully, a correspondent of Charles Darwin, and he published widely on homeopathy, and he also published The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers, Continue Reading »
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John Vesey Parnell 2nd Baron Congleton 1805 – 1883
John Vesey Parnell, 2nd Baron Congleton 1805 – 1883 was the son of Sir Henry Brooke Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton and Lady Caroline Elizabeth Dawson Damer.
John Vesey Parnell was the son in law of Edward Cronin, a pioneer of homeopathy in England and one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. John Vesey Parnell was a friend of John Nelson Darby, Francis William Newman, and he gave £100 to the Chapman Memorial Fund to honour Matthew James Chapman. Continue Reading »
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William Thomas Denison 1804 – 1871
Sir William Thomas Denison, KCB 1804 – 1871 was Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen’s Land from 1847 to 1855, Governor of New South Wales from 20 January 1855 to 22 January 1861, and Governor of Madras from 1861 to 1866.
Denison was a subscriber and a patron of the Sydney Homeopathic Dispensary in 1859, and he was related to Edmund Becket Lord Grimthorpe, who was an enthusiastic and ardent devotee of homeopathy.
Edmund Becket Lord Grimthorpe wrote to The Times in 1888 to protest against the prejudice of the allopathic physicians in dismissing Kenneth William Millican, which resulted in a month long battle of words in The Times, and the whole affair was written up in John Henry Clarke’s Odium medicum and homeopathy. Continue Reading »
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Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, KP, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS 1769 – 1852 was an Anglo Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the nineteenth century.
Wellesley was a staunch advocate of homeopathy and a patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital, so he would have known Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, and all the many other homeopaths at this time.
Arthur Wellesley treated Richard Monckton Milnes 1st Baron Houghton with homeopathic remedies for influenza.
Arthur Wellesley knew Prince Albert, Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset 8th Duke of Beaufort, Alfred Duke of Edinburgh, Robert William Gardiner, George Hamilton Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Robert Grosvenor, Henry William Paget, Henry Palmerston, Robert Peel, Mary Jane Seacole, Queen Victoria, Sarah Sophia Villiers, Countess of Jersey, Continue Reading »
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Richard Monckton Milnes 1st Baron Houghton 1809 – 1885
Richard Monckton Milnes 1st Baron Houghton 1809 – 1885 was an English poet and politician.
Monckton Milnes was treated homeopathically for his influenza by Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington,
Monckton Milnes was a friend of Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, John Humphrey Noyes, Henry Palmerston, Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, Robert Peel, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Continue Reading »
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William W Scholefield 1825 – 1894
William W Scholefield 1825? – 1894? MRCS England 1848, was an orthodox physician, Assistant Surgeon at the Chorlton Union Workhouse, Manchester, who converted to homeopathy to become Surgeon at the Blackburn Homeopathic Dispensary, the Bolton Homeopathic Dispensary, the Wigan Homeopathic Dispensary, and a member of The Northern Homeopathic Medical Association.
Scholefield was a colleague of George Atkin, George Edward Allshorn, Booth, John Le Gay Brereton 1827 – 1886 (who eventually emigrated to Australia where he opened the first Turkish bath in Australia), Hugh Cameron, Samuel Cockburn, William Simpson Craig, W H Denham, George Dunn, John James Drysdale, Grey, Spencer Timothy Hall, Thomas Hahnemann Hayle, George James Hilbers, George Calvert Holland, Irvine, Joseph Laurie, Adam Lyschinski, MacDowal, George MacLeod, John Murray Moore, Charles Thomas Pearce, Phillips, Alfred Crosby Pope, John Hodgson Ramsbotham, Charles Ransford, John Rutherford Russell, William Sharp, John Stuart Sutherland, Charles Caulfield Tuckey, Walker, Wright, and many others.
Scholefield also practiced at 74 Fisher Gate, Preston, Lancashire, and at 149 St Georges Road, Bolton le Moore, Lancashire,
Scholefield submitted cases and articles to various homeopathic journals.
Of interest:
William Scholefield – 1877 was a Birmingham MP in 1844, and President of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce in 1866, and a colleague of Richard Cobden and William Gladstone. Charles Dickens wrote Tavistock House, to William Scholefield,
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J H McKechnie 1808 – 1862
J H McKechnie 1808? – 1862? MD was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy.
In 1858, McKechnie took part in the Festival in aid of the London Homeopathic Hospital was held with many Aristocratic and minor gentry patrons attending, alongside Dr. Ayerst, William Bayes, Hugh Cameron, Edward Charles Chepmell, William Vallancy Drury, George Napoleon Epps, Arthur Guinness, Edward Hamilton, Frantz Hartmann, Amos Henriques, Joseph Kidd, Thomas Robinson Leadam, J Bell Metcalfe, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Henry Reynolds, John Rutherford Russell, Charles Caulfield Tuckey, George Wyld, Stephen Yeldham, and many others.
McKechnie was also a colleague of George Henry Burford, John Henry Clarke, Robert Thomas Cooper, Norman, John Hodgson Ramsbotham, Charles Thomas Knox Shaw, Percy Roberts Wilde, Dudley d’Auvergne Wright,
McKechnie practiced in Bath.
McKechnie submitted cases and articles to various homeopathic publications.
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Homeopathic Dispensaries and Hospitals
All over Britain and Europe, Homeopathic Dispensaries and hospitals opened their doors for the treatment of the poor.
The following is a work in progress, listing them all… Continue Reading »
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Adam Lyschinski 1814 – 1878
Adam Lyschinski 1814? – 1878? LRCS 1837, MD Edinburgh 1837, (Lyschinske) (Lynchinski) was a Polish immigrant to Britain, an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become Surgeon in Charge of MH Transports to the Isle of Mauritius 1838, Surgeon in Charge of MH Troops to Madras 1839, Medical Officer in the District of Tongue, Sutherland 1844, and Physician at the Edinburgh Homeopathic Dispensary,
Adam Lyschinski was a colleague of George Edward Allshorn, George Atkin, Samuel Cockburn, George Dunn, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, William Henderson, George James Hilbers, Joseph Laurie, Charles Thomas Pearce, John Rutherford Russell, William Sharp, John Stuart Sutherland, The Wielobycki Brothers, and many others.
Lyschinski practiced at 10 Warrington Crescent, Edinburgh, Continue Reading »
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