James John Garth Wilkinson 1812 - 1899 was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy on the advice of his friend Henry James Snr. Wilkinson graduated from the Hahnemann College in Philadelphia. Continue Reading »
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Luke D Broughton 1828 - 1899 was a homeopathic physician, and his father and ancestors were all astrologers. Continue Reading »
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James Smith Ayerst 1824/4 - 1885 was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1959 having having graduated in 1847 as Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Navy on the Flag Ship Hibernia, and later on the Hogue, and he went round the Cape of Good Hope on the Maender in 1852.
James Smith Ayerst was a correspondent and homeopathic doctor of Charles Darwin. Ayerst worked alongside James Manby Gully at the Hydropathic establishment at Malvern in the 1850s and had taken over from Gully by 1858. Charles Darwin went to see James Smith Ayerst there for treatment in 1863. Continue Reading »
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The Hughes surname contributed some exceptionally famous homeopaths. Continue Reading »
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Robert Gibson Miller 1862-1919 was an Englishman born in Kent in 1862, and was educated at Blair Lodge and the University of Glasgow, where he graduated in medicine in 1884.
An orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy, Robert travelled to St. Louis to train with James Tyler Kent and on his return, he founded the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital. His books and ideas are still very influential today for modern homeopaths. Continue Reading »
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Aneurin Bevan was a supporter of homeopathy and in 1945, he introduced the National health Service to the United Kingdom.
Bevan promised that:
”homeopathic institutions will be enabled to provide their own form of treatment and that the continuity of the characteristics of those institutions will be maintained”.*
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Catherine Booth 1829 - 1890 and her husband William Booth 1829 - 1912, founder of Salvation Army, were firm advocates of homeopathy. Catherine was greatly influenced by Phoebe Palmer, who was married to homeopath Walter Palmer. Continue Reading »
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William Henderson (1810-72) and homeopathy in Edinburgh
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Almroth Edward Wright 1861 - 1947 was a British bacteriologist and immunologist. He is best known for advancing vaccination through the use of autogenous vaccines (prepared from the bacteria harboured by the patient) and also through typhoid vaccination with typhoid bacilli killed by heat.
Wright noted with concern how massive doses of vaccine in therapeutic treatment led to local infections. He called this the ‘negative phase‘, which Hahnemann had identified earlier and called an ‘aggravation‘. Continue Reading »
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Charles Darwin was very interested in homeopathy and he received treatment from Dr. James Manby Gully over many years.
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