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François Cartier M.D. (1864 – June 1928) was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become the President of the French Homeopathic Society in 1906. Francois Cartier was a Physician at the Hospital [...]
Christophe Hartung 1779 – 1853 was an Austrian orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a student of Samuel Hahnemann. Christophe Hartung is famous for the cure of a cancerous tumour in the eye [...]
Robert Thomas Cooper (1844 – 14 September 1903) BA, MD, Trinity College Dublin was an Irish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become a Physician for Diseases of the Ear at the London Homeopathic [...]
James Compton Burnett MD (Glasgow 1872) (20 July 1840 – 2 April 1901) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. He worked at the London Homeopathic Hospital and in private practice, and he [...]
Sir George Wyatt Truscott Source: historywebsite.co.uk Sir George Wyatt Truscott, 1st Baronet (9 October 1857 – 16 April 1941), late Lord Mayor of London, was a Patron and a member of the Board [...]
Charles Sydney Hanson M.D. (31 January 1819 – 25 November 1864) was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a House Physician at the Hahnemann Hospital and the London Homeopathic Hospital, physician at [...]
George Atkin M.D. (c. 1815 – 13 December 1861) was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become the editor of the British and Foreign Homeopathic Directory, Physician at the Hull Homeopathic Dispensary, General [...]
Antoine Henri Petroz (1781 – 29 August 1859) was a student of Samuel Hahnemann, and he was one of of the foremost homeopaths in Paris. By 1865, compilations of his valuable writings were made by [...]
Joshua Lambert Vardy M.D. L.A.C. (1800 – 7 October 1870) was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy some time after 1845. He was formerly a Surgeon at the South Metropolitan Midwifery Institution and a [...]
George Newman (4 May 1812 – 9 April 1887) (sometimes spelled Newnham) LRC Phys. Edin. MRCS London (St. Bartholomew’s) was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy and practiced in Glastonbury. George Newman was on [...]
Victor Arnaud (1807? – 13 November 1869) was a veteran French homeopath and President of the Homeopathic Medical Society of France. Arnaud was present at the International Homeopathic Congress in Paris in 1867. Arnaud’s name [...]
Jean Paul Tessier M.D. (1 April 1811 – 16 May 1862) was a French orthodox physician who practiced in Turin and in Paris, who converted to homeopathy, and became the publisher of Etudes de Medicine [...]
Léon Francois Adolphe Simon (27 November 1798 – 13 May 1867) was a French Jewish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy when he met Paul Francois Curie. Léon Simon became a student of Samuel Hahnemann, [...]
Paul Wolf M.D. (24 February 1795 – 2 January 1857) was a was a German-Jewish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. Paul Wolf was a student of Samuel Hahnemann,and a colleague of Frantz Hartmann, Matthias Marenzeller [...]
Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, The Duke of Windsor) (23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of the United Kingdom and the British dominions, and Emperor of India from [...]
Carl Haubold (1796 – 8 June 1862) was a German orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. Carl Haubold was one of the earliest students of Samuel Hahnemann in Leipsig. Carl Haubold was a member of [...]
Samuel Timotheus Thorer (25 April 1795 – 25 June 1846) was a student at the University of Leipzig, and obtained his medical degree in Berlin. Thorer was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. Thorer [...]
Geddes MacKenzie Scott M.D. M.A. (31 March 1805 – 11 April 1887) was an English-born clergyman and an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy when he met Samuel Hahnemann. McKenzie Scott was the first homeopath [...]
King Edward VII Source: National Portrait Gallery King Edward VII (Albert Edward) (9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India [...]
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George) (14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor [...]
Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel, later HRH The Prince Consort) (26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of [...]
Harris Dunsford Image Source: Rosemary Nicolaou Harris F. Dunsford M.D. L.S.A. M.R.C.S. (18 January 1808 – 17 June 1847) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. Dunsford was a student of [...]
Matthias Marenzeller – Lithograph by Antonín Machek. Image credit: Wellcome Collection Matthias Marenzeller/Marenzellar M.D. (15 February 1765 – 6 January 1854) was an Austrian orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, a contemporary and [...]
Charles James Matthews (1803-1878). Image credit wikipedia Charles James Mathews (26 December 1803 – 24 June 1878) was a British actor. A son of the actor Charles Mathews, he became even better known [...]
Charles Augustus Tulk F.R.S. (2 June 1786 – 16 January 1849) was a British politician, Justice of the Peace, and Swedenborgian. He served as MP for Sudbury from 1820 – 1826, and for Poole from [...]
Karl Friedrich Gottfried Trinks M.D. Image credit: Wellcome Collection Karl Friedrich Gottfried Trinks M.D. (8 January 1800 – 15 June 1868) was a German Jewish physician who practiced in Dresden, and he was [...]
Friedrich Jakob Rummel (26 April 1793 – 10 October 1854) was a German orthodox physician and a fierce opponent of homeopathy before he converted to homeopathy. Rummel was Samuel Hahnemann’s great adversary until 1826, when [...]
Georg August Heinrich Muhlenbein (15 October 1764 – 8 January 1845) was a German orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become one of the founders and the President of the Central Society of Homeopathic [...]
Norbert Glas (28 January 1897 – 30 March 1986) A F Hom M.D. Vienna, LRCP London, MRCS Eng. was an Austrian Jewish physician who fled Nazi Germany to find refuge in Britain in the 1930s. [...]
Mary Young McArthur Stevenson M.B., CH.B., D.P.H., M.F.HOM (29 January 1899 – 18 June 1972) was an homeopath at the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital. She was one of sixteen homeopaths who died in the Staines Trident [...]
Otto Leeser Ph.D. M.D. (1888 – 1964) MD, PHd was a German Jewish homeopath who had to leave Germany due to Nazi persecution during World War II, and he escaped to England via Holland. Leeser [...]
John Hudson Storer (5 December 1861 – 9 May 1933) was a homeopathic ENT Physician and Professor of Ophthalmology, Otology, Laryngology and Rhinology, and Dean of The Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. In 1899 he [...]
James Dore Blake M.D. M.R.C.S. (18 May 1805 – 13 October 1874) MD MRCS became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1847, having attended the School of Medicine in Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, [...]
William Charles Macready. Image credit: V&A William Charles Macready (3 March 1793 – 27 April 1873) was an English actor. William Charles Macready was a patient of homeopath Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, and [...]
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Peel helped to create the modern concept of the police force and, oversaw the [...]
Clarence Granville Hey M.B. C.M. M.R.C.V.S. (26 July 1871 – 11 August 1941) was a Surgeon and Consulting Gynaecologist at the London Homeopathic Hospital. In 1904 Granville Hey became a member of the British Homoeopathic [...]
John Moorhead Byres Moir M.D. C.M. (5 April 1853 – 4 July 1928) MD CM Edinburgh and London was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, and who was a House Surgeon and Consulting Physician [...]
John Hodgson Ramsbotham M.D. M.R.C.S. (20 June 1809 – 5 August 1868) was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. Ramsbotham was a Surgeon at the Royal Maternity Charity Hospital London, and at the Halifax [...]
Octavia Margaret Sophia Lewin Source: National Portrait Gallery Octavia Margaret Sophia Lewin M.B. B.S. (London) 1896, M.D. (Chicago) (2 February 1869 – 27 December 1955) was a Registrar and Assistant Physician at the [...]
Julien Aimé Davet de Beaurepaire de Benery MD (27 November 1797 – 1873) was an Italian homeopath who lived and practiced in France. He was a student and colleague of Samuel Hahnemann in Leipzig. Davet [...]
George Henry Burford (1856 – 3 January 1937) MB, CM 1880 Aberdeen, London, Vienna, Berlin Senior Surgeon and Physician for the Diseases of Women at the London Homeopathic Hospital, Physician at the Plymouth, Devon and [...]
Johann Joseph Wilhelm Lux M.D. (6 April 1776 – 29 January 1849), was a German veterinary surgeon at the University of Leipzig who converted to homeopathy. Lux was a member of the Homoeopathischer Centralverein. Lux [...]
Charles Ransford M.D. (c. 1808 – 11 July 1886) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become Physician at the York Homeopathic Dispensary. He was a member of the British Homeopathic Society [...]
Thomas Skinner L.R.C.S.E. M.D. [St. Andrews 1857] (11 August 1825 – 11 September 1906) was an allopathic physician and a strident opponent of homeopathy, who had worked very closely with Sir James Young Simpson as [...]
William Henderson MD Edin. [1831] (17 January 1810 – 1 April 1872), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and Professor of General Pathology at the University of Edinburgh, was an orthodox physician [...]
John Ozanne M.D. [Paris, 1840] B.L. (13 February 1816 – 13 December 1864) was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. John Ozanne was a student of Paul Francois Curie. Along with fellow doctors William [...]
Richard Walter(s) Heurtley M.D. (7 April 1816 – 30 March 1891) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy and was a patron of the British Homeopathic Society alongside John Epps, Marmaduke Blake Sampson [...]
Francis Black M.D. (19 January 1820 – 29 May 1883) was a British homeopathic physician. He was a Fellow of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, Treasurer of the Hahnemann Publishing Society, as well as [...]
William Vallancey Drury (1821 – 26 April 1892) was an Irish-born orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become Physician in charge of the Diseases of Children at the London Homeopathic Hospital. William V. Drury [...]
John Rutherfurd Russell MD Edin. 1838 (28 April 1816 – 22 December 1866) was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become Physician of Edinburgh Homeopathic Dispensary, Physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital, Fellow [...]
Thomas Engall MRCS (13 May 1808 – 18 July 1887) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. He was Surgeon at the West London Homeopathic Dispensary, Surgeon at the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 [...]
George Wyld M.D. (17 March 1821 – 24 June 1906) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy in 1851 after he was treated homeopathically by Dr. Robert Ellis Dudgeon for nervous tension brought on [...]
Henry Victor Malan M.D. (2 July 1817 – 23 January 1879) was a Swiss-British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. He was a student of Samuel Hahnemann in 1840, Surgeon and Obstetrician Tubingen 1839, MD [...]
Joseph Hands MRCS [1831] LSA [1830] (1804 – 17 April 1886) was a British orthodox surgeon who converted to homeopathy, to become a member of the Medical Council of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury [...]
Joseph Laurie M.D. (13 June 1814 – 10 December 1865) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), graduate of the Homeopathic Medical College of [...]
James Bell Metcalfe M.D. M.R.C.S. L.S.A. (1815 – February 5, 1890) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. James Bell Metcalfe was a student of Paul Francois Curie at the London Homeopathic Medical [...]
Thomas Robinson Leadam M.D. M.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. (22 November 1809 – 5 September 1881) MD Cleveland 1853 MRSC Eng 1853 LRCP Edin. was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become Surgeon to St. [...]
George Calvert Holland M.D. (28 February 1801 – 7 March 1865) was a poet, public speaker, author, politician, and physician. He was Lecturer on Physiology at Sheffield Medical Institution in 1831, Physician Extraordinary to The Sheffield General [...]
Stephen Yeldham M.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. L.A.C. (1810 – 10 August 1895) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become Consulting Surgeon to the London Homeopathic Hospital. Yeldham was formerly Surgeon to the Royal [...]
Hugh Cameron (1810 – 1897). Image credit Peter Morrell Hugh Cameron M.R.C.S. (28 July 1810 – 20 October 1897) was a British orthodox physician and surgeon who converted to homeopathy to become a student [...]
Samuel Thomas Partridge M.D. [Aberdeen, 1820], M.R.C.S. [1818] (1797 – 14 March 1870) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. He practiced at 2 York Place, Portman Square, became Physician to the Marylebone [...]
Charles William Luther (Carl/Karl/Karrol Wilhelm) (26 September 1810 – 5 October 1876) was a German orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy and, in 1838, he was one of the first people to introduce homeopathy to [...]
Augustus Henry Moreton MacDonald of Largie (24 June 1804 – 14 February 1862) was elected as the MP for West Gloucester in 1832, and his brother Henry George Francis Reynolds Moreton, Second Earl of Ducie, [...]
Marmaduke Blake Sampson (1809 – 3 October 1876) worked at the Bank of England and he was the financial editor (1858) and the City Editor (1872 – City Correspondent for The Times from 1846 – [...]
David MacNish M.A. M.B. C.M. (10 January 1861 – 21 January 1943) was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become an Assistant Physician in 1897 and later Physician to the London Homeopathic Hospital. [...]
James Douglas Kenyon B.Sc. M.B. Ch.B. M.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. (9 September 1891 – 12 June 1958) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a Consultant Physician at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital [...]
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a French Impressionist painter. Camille Pissarro was an enthusiastic advocate of homeopathy. He consulted homeopath Paul Ferdinand Gachet in Auvers sur Oise, and [...]
Harold Fergie Woods L.R.C.P. M.R.C.S. (11 October 1883 – 15 January 1961) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become Consultant for Diseases of Children at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. Woods [...]
George Combe (21 October 1788 – 14 August 1858) brother of Andrew Combe, was a writer on phrenology and education. He was born in Edinburgh, where for some time he practiced as a lawyer. Latterly, [...]
Mark Pattison. Image credit:William Tuckwell, Reminiscences of Oxford Mark Pattison (10 October 1813 – 30 July 1884) was an English author and a Church of England priest. He served as rector of Lincoln [...]
Douglas Morris Borland M.B. Ch.B. (22 March 1885 – 29 November 1960) was an influential Scottish homeopathic physician. He studied with James Tyler Kent in Chicago, making him among the first to bring Kentian homeopathy [...]
Johann Ernst Stapf (9 September 1788 – 10 July 1860) was a German orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a pupil and colleague of Samuel Hahnemann, and a member of Hahnemann’s Provers’ Union. [...]
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer most famous today for the science fiction novels he published [...]
Joseph Kidd FRCSE (15 February 1824 – 20 August 1918) was an Irish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy and later became the homeopathic physician to Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. He [...]
Wilhelm Ameke M.D. (19 April 1847 – 22 January 1886) was a German orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy to become, alongside Richard Haehl, one of the great historians of Samuel Hahnemann and of homeopathy. [...]
Charles Edwin Wheeler M.D. B.S. B.Sc. (24 August 1868 – 2 February 1947) was an Australian-born orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. Wheeler was junior editor and, from 1907-1922, sole editor of The Homeopathic World, [...]
Margery Grace Blackie CVO, MD, FFHom (4 Feb 1898 – 24 August 1981) was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy. In 1969 she became the homeopathic physician of Queen Elizabeth II, the first woman [...]
Edward William Berridge MB, BS (1844 – 13 May 1920) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. Berridge trained at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1864, and then travelled to America to study at [...]
John Henry Clarke M.D. M.B. C.M. (1852 – 24 November 1931) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become consulting physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital, and one of the most influential [...]
Georg Heinrich Gottlieb Jahr (30 January 1800 – 11 July 1875) was a German lay homeopath who was very close to Samuel Hahnemann. Jahr was a prolific writer and staunch advocate of homeopathy who was [...]
James Ellis Barker Source: Library of Congress James Ellis Barker (9 May 1870 – 16 July 1948) was a German-born, British Jewish homeopath. Born in Cologne, in Germany, he settled in Britain to [...]
William Ewart Gladstone Image Source: wikimedia.org William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Liberal Politician, statesman and Prime Minister. Gladstone was a patient of homeopaths [...]
Frederick Hervey Foster Quin (MD Edin 1820) (12 February 1799 – 24 November 1879) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become one of the very first homeopaths in Britain. In 1844 [...]
Alicia Boole Stott (8 June 1860 – 17 December 1940) was the third daughter of Mary Everest Boole and George Boole and the granddaughter of homeopath Thomas Roupell Everest. Alice is best known for coining [...]
Ethel Lilian Boole Voynich (11 May 1864 – 27 July 1960) was a novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. Her father was the famous mathematician George Boole. Her mother was Mary Everest [...]
Richard Hughes MRCS LRCP (20 August 1836 – 3 April 1902) was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a Physician at the Brighton Homeopathic Dispensary, Editor of the British Journal of Homeopathy [...]
Margaret Lucy Tyler M.D. L.R.C.P. L.R.C.S. L.R.C.P.S.G. (9 February 1859 – 21 June 1943) was an English homeopath who was influenced by the work of Chicago physician James Tyler Kent. As one of the leading [...]
Sir John Weir, GCVO, Royal Victorian Chain MB ChB Glasgow 1907, FFHom (19 October 1879 – 17 April 1971) was Physician Royal to several twentieth century monarchs. The very first homeopath by Royal appointment was Frederick [...]
Adolphus Bauer M.D. (March 1806 - 13 October 1867) Adolphus Bauer was born and educated in Germany. He became a citizen of Cincinnati about 1848. He soon acquired a large practice among the best citizens, [...]
Arnold Toynbee (23 August 1852 – 9 March 1883) was an English economic historian also noted for his social commitment and desire to improve the living conditions of the working class. Arnold Toynbee’s father Joseph [...]
Charles Neidhard (1809 – 1895). Image credit: Egbert Cleave, Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopaedia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons. (Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1873) p. 58 Charles Neidhard M.D. (1809 – 17 April 1895) was [...]
Charles Howard Hinton Image source: wikimedia Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 30 April 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled Scientific Romances. He was interested in higher dimensions, [...]
Lucy Everest Boole (5 August 1862 – 5 December 1904) daughter of Mary Everest Boole and George Boole, granddaughter of Thomas Roupell Everest. […]
William Sturm (1796 – 1879) was an early pioneer of homeopathy in Cincinnati, practicing in that city from 1839 to 1876. […]
George Boole (2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a British mathematician and philosopher. As the inventor of Boolean algebra, which is the basis of all modern computer arithmetic, Boole is regarded in hindsight [...]
Johannes Helffrich. Image credit: Northwestern Lehigh County (2006), p.124. Johannes Helffrich (Helfrich) (17 January 1795 – 8 March 1852) was a Reformed Church pastor and an early pioneer of homeopathy in America. Helffrich [...]
John Bernard Eberhard Freytag (Freitag) M.D. (20 April 1764 – 14 March 1846) was a pioneer homeopath and pharmacist from the very early days of American homeopathy, practicing in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In 1834 he became [...]
Joseph Hyppolyte Pulte M.D. (6 October 1811 – 24 February 1884) was one of the first pioneers of homeopathy in America and remains a widely influential homeopath today. Joseph Hyppolyte Pulte was a colleague of [...]
Federal Vanderburgh M.D. (11 May 1788 – 23 January 1868) was the pioneer of homeopathy in New York State when he treated his first case in 1837. He was also credited with introducing homeopathy to [...]
George Brinton McClellan (3 December 1826 – 29 October 1885) was a Major General during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac, and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as [...]
Vice-Admiral Joel Thompson Boone (29 August, 1889 – 2 April, 1974) was an American homeopath, surgeon, naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient who was the homeopathic physician, alongside Charles Elmer Sawyer, of U.S. Presidents [...]
Brigadier General Charles Elmer Sawyer M.D. (24 January 1860 – 23 September 1924) was the White House Physician to President Warren G. Harding and his wife Florence. President Harding appointed Sawyer as Chairman of the [...]
Charles Julius Hempel M.D. (5 September 1811 – 24 September 1879) was a major translator of homeopathic books into the English language, and Chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Homœopathic Medical College of [...]
Carroll Dunham M. D. (29 October 1828 – 18 February 1877) was an influential American homeopathic physician who was Dean of Faculty at the New York Homeopathic Medical College and also served as President of [...]
James Tyler Kent M.D. (31 March 1849 – 5 June 1916) was a highly influential American homeopathic physician. J. T. Kent held an appointment as Professor of Anatomy in the American Medical College, St. Louis, [...]
William Henry Seward Sr. (16 May 1801 – 10 October 1872) was a Governor of New York, United States Senator, and United States Secretary of State under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Seward’s wife, [...]
Edwin Thomas Booth (13 November 1833 – 7 June 1893) was an American actor and founder Booth’s Theatre in New York City. His brother was John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in [...]
Adolph Graf zur Lippe Biesterfeld Weissenfeld M.D. (11 May 1812 – 23 January 1888) was a singular homeopath and one of the first graduates of homeopathy in America. Lippe taught alongside Constantine Hering at the [...]
The North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Arts, aka the Allentown Academy. Founded in 1835, the Allentown Academy was the first homeopathic medical school in the world. Image credit: Drexel Medical Archives [...]
Robert Gibson Miller M.B. C.M. (ca. 14 May 1862 – 10 May 1919) was a Scottish orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy. At the outset of his career Miller travelled to St. Louis to train [...]
Alice Boole Campbell M.D. (3 March 1836 – 31 December 1908) was a homeopathic physician. In 1863 she was one of the first women to graduate from Clemence Lozier’s New York Homeopathic College, where she [...]
Henry Chileab Allen M. D. (2 October 1836 – 22 January 1909) was Professor of Diseases of the Skin and Miasmatics and founder of the Hering Medical College, City Physician at the Baptist Hospital and [...]
Constantine J. Hering (1 January 1800 – 23 July 1880) was the ‘father of American Homeopathy’, known for his “Law of Cure” which remains a guiding principle for modern homeopathy. Hering originally set out to [...]
Samuel Swan M.D. (4 July 1814 – 17 October 1893) was an American musician who, after being introduced to homeopathy, subsequently changed careers to become a noted homeopathic medical doctor. Swan was responsible for proving [...]
Anna Manning Comfort Image source: wikimedia Anna Manning Comfort M.D. (19 January 1845 – 12 January 1931) was in the first class of graduates from the New York Medical College in 1865, and [...]
Brigadier General (Dr.) Edward Augustus Wild (1825 – 1891) was the son of homeopath Dr. Charles Wild (1795 – 1864). Edward Wild studied at Harvard College and at Jefferson Medical College and joined the Massachusetts [...]
Marie Zakrzewska (6 September 1829 – 12 May 1902) was a German born physician of Polish descent who made her name as a pioneering female doctor in the United States. Zakrzewska confessed to Elizabeth Blackwell [...]
Mary Ann Bickerdyke (19 July 1817 – 8 November 1901), born Mary Ann Ball in Knox County, Ohio, was a trained herbalist and homeopath and became a noted hospital administrator for the Union during the [...]
Edward Bayard M.D. Image credit: National Library of Medicine Edward Bayard M.D. (5 March 1806 – 28 September 1889) was a lawyer for eighteen years, who converted to become a homeopath, and continued [...]
Henry Clay Angell MD (27 January 1829 – 28 May 1911) was a noted Boston ophthalmologist. Angell graduated from the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1852, briefly setting up in practice with German homeopathic [...]
Marcena Sherman Ricker M.D. (23 July 1852 – 18 January 1933) of Rochester, New York, was a practicing homeopath who was a friend and the personal physician of noted suffragist Susan B. Anthony. Ricker was [...]
Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (24 March 1826 – 18 March 1898) ‘… was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was “born with a hatred of oppression” Gage’s [...]
Martha Coffin (Pelham) Wright (25 December 1806 – 4 January 1875), President of the National Woman Suffrage Association was, like many of her peers, a vocal proponent of improved health care and human rights. Wright [...]
Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen (1785 – 1864) Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen (12 March 1785 – 26 January 1864) was a German aristocrat, lawyer and agriculturalist who became a student of Samuel [...]
Susan Brownell Anthony (15 February 1820 – 13 March 1906) was a prominent supporter of homeopathy, forming the National Women Suffrage Association and supporting abolitionism and she spoke out forcefully on behalf of homeopathy all [...]
Lucretia Coffin Mott (3 January 1793 – 11 November 1880) was an American Quaker minister, a social reformer, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist. It was not simply a coincidence that a large number of leading [...]
Lt. Col. Frederick Myers Dearborn Image source: Sylvain Cazelet Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Myers Dearborn M. D. (13 July 1876 – 25 January 1960) was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy. Dearborn was [...]
Vincent van Gogh, Man with a Pipe (Portrait of Dr. Paul Gachet, 15 May 1890). Image credit: Philadelphia Museum of Art Paul Ferdinand Gachet M.D. (30 July 1828 – 9 January 1909) was [...]
Calvin Coolidge. Image source: wikimedia John Calvin Coolidge Jr., (4 July 1872 – 5 January 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923 – 1929). He was born in Vermont, the [...]
William Tod Helmuth M.D. (30 October 1833 – 15 May 1902) was professor of surgery, dean of the faculty and a trustee of the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital. Helmuth wrote one of [...]
Count Bertrand-Henri de Bonneval M. D. (9 May 1806 – 13 June 1882), was a practitioner of homeopathy, agronomist and philanthropist. Bonneval was one of the earliest French disciples of Samuel Hahnemann. In 1831-2 he [...]
James A Garfield (1831 – 1881), twentieth President of the United States, was surrounded by support from homeopaths and he was an advocate of homeopathy all his life. Garfield’s first cousin Silas A. Boynton was [...]
Ulysses Simpson Grant (27 April 1822 – 23 July 1885) was an American general who became the 18th President of the United States (1869 – 1877) following his success as military commander in the American [...]
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (4 October 1822 – 17 January 1893) was an American lawyer, Brevet Major General, and Republican politician, who was elected as the 19th President of the United States. Hayes was in office [...]
Solomon Carter Fuller, M.D. (1 August 1872 – 16 January 1953) was a Liberian neurologist, psychiatrist and professor who was educated at the Homeopathic Boston University Medical College. Fuller spent much of his career working [...]
Susan Maria McKinney Steward M.D. (March 1847 – March 17, 1918) was the first African American woman physician in New York state and only the third in the country, qualifying just seven years after the [...]
Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) was a lawyer, politician, abolitionist, and the 16th President of the United States, in office from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Although born into poverty [...]
August Karl Gustav Bier (1861 – 1949) was a German surgeon and the pioneer of spinal anaesthesia. Bier was unusual for being very open minded in his support of homeopathy, even though he came across [...]
Charles Frederick Menninger MD (1862 – 1953) founded the Menninger Clinic in Texas. Menninger originally trained as a homeopath and in 1889 graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago. After receiving a second MD [...]