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Jose Nunez Pernia Marquis de Nunez 1805 – 1879

Jose Nunez Pernia 1805 – 1879 (known as Jose Nunez and Marquis of Nunez) MD was a Spanish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy and received an Honorary Doctorate in 1867 from the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, to become one of the first Spanish homeopaths, was the founder of the Hahnemann Society of Madrid, of the Homeopathic Institute and the San Jose Hospital, Honor President of Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis.

Jose Nunez was a student of Samuel Hahnemann, and the homeopathic physician of Queen Isabella II 1830 – 1904, who rewarded Nunez with the title Marquis of Nunez, the Grand Cross of Charles III and the Civil Order of Beneficia. Continue Reading »

Sue :: Jul.19.2009 :: Spanish History :: No Comments »

Juan Bertran 1885 – 1936

Juan Bertran 1885? – 1936? was a Spanish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become the Spanish Delegate at The International Homeopathic League.

The International Homeopathic League was founded in Rotterdam (Holland), on the 10th September, 1925 by Roy Upham USA, the first President, George Henry Burford, England, the first Vice President, and Harold Fergie Woods, England, Clarence Granville Hey, England, Edwin Awdas Neatby, England, Victor Ellwood, England, M Fremont Kranz Busch, Germany, Jean Paul Tessier Junior, France, E C Tuinzing, Holland, Augusto Vinyals, Spain, Juan Bertran, Spain, Petrie Nicholas Grouleff, Denmark, A. Moeira Piedras, Brazil and Pierre Schmidt, Switzerland.

Of interest:

E Bertran was an American homeopath in 1898.

J Bertran was a Spanish homeopath in 1918.

Ramon Bertran was a Spanish homeopath in 1899.

Sue :: Apr.24.2009 :: Spanish History :: No Comments »

Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso 1881 – 1973 was an Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.

Pablo Picasso took homeopathic remedies regularly.

Picasso’s friend Gertrude Stein was interested in homeopathy and discussed it with great interest, and his friend Henri Matisse consulted homeopath Pierre Vannier, the nephew of homeopath Leon Vannier.

Picasso’s friend Guillaume Apollinaire introduced him to a homeopathic medium, and Picasso also worked for Sergei Diaghilev who was very close to Adrian Cedric Boult, Joseph Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky (a close friend of Picasso) and Sergei Prokofiev (who was also a patient of Leon Vannier). Continue Reading »

Sue :: Feb.21.2009 :: Spanish History :: No Comments »

Pauline Viardot Garcia 1821 – 1910

Pauline Viardot García 1821 –  1910 was a nineteenth century Spanish mezzo soprano and composer.

Pauline Viardot Garcia wrote to her friend Julius Rietz, advising him to take the homeopathic remedy Oleum, ‘which was wonderful for everything‘.

Pauline was a friend of Louis Hector Berlioz, Frederic Chopin, Charles Francois Gounod, Adelaide Kemble, Jenny Lind, Giacomo Meyerbeer and Clara Schumann (who was a personal friend of Samuel Hahnemann and his wife Melanie).

Pauline had a life long affair with Ivan Turgenev, who wrote about homeopathy in his novel Fathers and Sons in 1861.

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Sue :: Dec.03.2008 :: Spanish History :: No Comments »

Antoni Gaudi 1852 – 1926

Antoni Gaudi 1852 – 1926 was a Spanish architect who belonged to the Modernist style (Art Nouveau) movement and was famous for his unique and highly individualistic designs.

He followed the Sebastian Kneipp regimen because he suffered from reuhmatism, kept a frugal, vegetarian diet, took homeopathic remedies, had various bathing procedures and walked long distances. From 1906 on, he walked 4.5 kilometers daily from the Parque Guell to the Sagrada Familia Cathedral. Continue Reading »

Sue :: Nov.22.2008 :: Spanish History :: No Comments »

Amos Henriques 1812 – 1880

Amos Henriques MD (BSL Paris 1833 MRCS Eng. 1832) 1812 – 1880 was a British Jewish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy.

It is possible that he was a relative of Mary Jane Seacole,

Knight of the Order of Charles III of Spain, Honorary Physician to the Spanish Embassy in 1848, member of the Philosophical Society of Jamaica, Fellow of the Medico Chirurgical Society, member of the Hahnemann Medical Society, member of the Homeopathic Academy of Rio Janeiro, member of the Homeopathic Institute of Turin, Physician Accoucheur to the Hahnemann Medical Insitution and Dispensary, Surgeon to the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square.

Amos Henriques was the homeopath of Amelia Taylor (nee Ringrose), a friend of Charlotte Bronte,

Amos Henriques practiced at 67 Upper Berkeley Square, Portman Square in 1849. Continue Reading »

Sue :: Oct.10.2008 :: British History :: No Comments »