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Marlene Dietrich and Homeopathy

Marlene DietrichMarlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992 was a German-born American actress, singer and entertainer. She is regarded as the first German actress to become successful in Hollywood.

Marlene Dietrich was a strong advocate of homeopathy, and she sent remedies to Georges Pompidou. Her personal homeopath was Elizabeth Wright Hubbard.

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Wilhelm Heinrich Schuessler and Homeopathy

Wilhelm Heinrich SchuesslerWilhelm Heinrich Schuessler 1821 - 1989 was a German homeopath who invented to World famous Tissue Salts. Continue Reading »

Florence Nightingale and Homeopathy

nightingaleFlorence Nightingale’s 1820 - 1910 Notes on Nursing was first published in England in 1859 and in America in 1860, and she says:

Homeopathy has introduced one essential amelioration in the practice of physic by amateur females; for its rules are excellent, its physicking comparatively harmless–the “globule” is the one grain of folly which appears to be necessary to make any good thing acceptable. Let then women, if they will give medicine, give homeopathic medicine. It won’t do any harm.”

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Clemens Maria Franz Baron von Boenninghausen and Homeopathy

BoenninghausenClemens Maria Franz Baron von Boenninghausen (1785 – 1864)

was a German baron, lawyer and agriculturalist, who also had contact with Hahnemann and later went on to become one of the major contributors to the homeopathic literature.

His enthusiasm for the subject came from his own homeopathic cure, in 1827, from a serious chronic disease (purulent tuberculosis), from which his doctors gave him no hope of recovery.

He used homeopathy on animals and, in fact, homeopathically treated the animals on his own vast Westphalian estate.

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Paul Ferdinand Gachet and Homeopathy

gachetDr. Paul Ferdinand Gachet, van Goghs late physician, a disciple of Hahnemann?

A Sparenborg-Nolte, SH Nolte Marburg, Germany Continue Reading »

Count Henri de Bonneval and Homeopathy

Chateau de LatresneCount Henri de Bonneval (1806-1882), practitioner of homeopathy, agronomist and philanthropist

Neuzil E, Cousse H. Continue Reading »

The beginnings of alternative medicine in Hungary

hungaryThe beginnings of alternative medicine in Hungary

Kölnei L.

Semmelweis Museum, Library and Archives, H-1023 Budapest, Török u. 12, Hungary Continue Reading »

Pierre Curie and Homeopathy

pierre curiePierre Curie 1859-1906 came from a medical family, and his grandfather Pierre Curie was a famous homeopathic physician. Continue Reading »

History of homeopathy in Franconia

Northern BavariaHistory of homeopathy in Franconia

Dross F, Ruisinger MM.

Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin, Erlangen. fritz.dross@gesch.med.uni-erlangen.de

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History of homeopathy in Hungary 1820-1990

hungaryHistory of homeopathy in Hungary 1820-1990

Kóczián M, Kölnei L. Continue Reading »

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