Alva Benjamin 1884 – 1975
Alva Benjamin 1884 – 1975 MB, ChB, FF HOM, was an Australian orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a Physician and Skin Specialist at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, a Lecturer on Diseases of the Skin at the Missionary School of Medicine (MSM), Founder of the Hahnemann Society, and the President of LIGA (International Homeopathic League),
Alva Benjamin was a colleague of Muriel Francis Adams, Marjorie Grace Blackie, Philip Norman Cutner, Donald MacDonald Foubister, Kathleen Priestman, John Weir, Harold Fergie Woods, and very many others, and he was a teacher of Pichiah Sankaran,
Writing in the the British Medical Journal, Alva Benjamin estimated the number of homeopathic supporters in Britain in 1948 to be ‘over 1 million people’,
Alva Benjamin lived at 46 Bickenhall Mansions, London W1, and at 62 Queen’s Gardens, Bayswater, Continue Reading »
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The history of homeopathy in Australia is the specialisation of Barbara Armstrong who is currently the National Administrator of the Australian Homeopathic Association, and you can read her very interesting research at