https://www.freewiki.eu/en/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=SiLet&feedformat=atom FreeWiki - User contributions [en] 2024-03-29T11:40:33Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.31.16 https://www.freewiki.eu/en/index.php?title=Adolph_Lippe&diff=749 Adolph Lippe 2019-04-05T21:06:03Z <p>SiLet: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> {{empty page}}<br /> <br /> &lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#804000&quot;&gt;'''Count Adolphus Graph zur LIPPE-WEISSENFELD&lt;br/&gt; (1812-1888, US)'''&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Count Adolphus Graf zur Lippe was born in Germany on May 11, 1812. He emigrated to the United States in 1839, and graduated from the Allentown Academy in 1841. He was the author of Lippe's Materia Medica.<br /> <br /> '''&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#800000&quot;&gt;Sketch of the Life of von Lippe&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;'''&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#800000&quot;&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br/&gt; '''&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#800000&quot;&gt;by William B. Griggs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;'''<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;One hundred years and more have now come and gone since the author of these posthumous manuscripts first saw the light of day, on the family estate of &quot;See&quot; of his noble forbears in Germany. A blood relation of the reigning House, he was descended from a long line of distinguished ancestors. He was the eldest son of the late Count Ludwid and Countess Augusta zur Lippe and was destined by them for the profession of law. He, therefore, finished his academical preparations and was graduated from the University of Berlin. While prosecuting legal studies there, however, taste and opportunity attracted him to the more congenial pursuits of medicine, and at the close of a year, he devoted himself thereto.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Emigrating to the United States in 1839 he presented himself to the sole school of the homeopathic practice in this country - the old ''&lt;font color=&quot;#800000&quot;&gt;'''Allentown Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing Art'''&lt;/font&gt;''. After assiduous application he was granted his diploma from &lt;font color=&quot;#800000&quot;&gt;'''''Dr. Constantine Hering'''''&lt;/font&gt;, as President of the institution, on July 27, 1841. Removing to Pottsville, Dr. von Lippe practiced with success and growing ability until called to a larger field, at Carlisle. Here the prevalent epidemics of the Cumberland Valley gave him a new distinction, by means of which he was, six years later, induced to settle in Philadelphia. Here he speedily attained a marked distinction in the most fashionable practice of his day. Aside, however, from his strictly professional labors, Dr. von Lippe had been a regular contributor to homoeopathic literature and an active correspondent with his confreres in foreign parts, and more especially with Wilson in London and Rocco Rubini in Naples. The correspondence, now turned yellow with the lapse of years, is both interesting and instructive and quite fully attests the warm friendship of many admirers. Rubini's original pamphlet in Italian, introducing the cactus grandiflorus, is particularly valuable.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Dr. von Lippe filled the chair of materia medica in the Homoeopathic College of Pennsylvania from 1863 to 1868 and with distinguished success. He also translated valuable Italian, German, and French Homoeopathic essays and treatises, that are now standard. He augmented and improved the homeopathic materia medica, and by his clinical reports has shown how this may be rendered practically available and utilized in the application of homoeopathic knowledge and principles. Adopting homoeopathy after careful examination, when qualified to institute and conduct it; believing it to be progressive rather than stagnant, and having devoted the best years of a prosperous life to establishing its claims in this country, he absolutely rejected all claims and solicitations that would have recalled him to Germany.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Just now when the thought of the entire medical profession the world over is veering away from polypharmacy and courting the single agent, when men like von Behring and Wright and Roux are tempering the actual etiological factor in degree for the acquisition of a beneficent immunity, when the size of dose as exemplified by preparations of tuberculin are reduced to one millionth of a milligram, when the physicians of all schools unite in admitting the need of testing the action of drugs on humans themselves and when in a state of health, it may surely be of interest to read and pursue the works of this great German nobleman who was in point of fact the indomitable Ajax of the homoeopathic practice of his day. Standing at the very door of the citadel of truth he kept the sacred fires of healing science alit by the broad-axe of truth itself.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Like the sire of Hahnemann himself he lived the motto of that man's belief &quot;To act and to be, not merely to seem.&quot;<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Vivit, vivetque ad sempliteranam aetatem.<br /> <br /> '''&lt;font color=&quot;#000080&quot;&gt;William B. Griggs.&lt;/font&gt;'''&lt;br/&gt; ''Philadelphia.''</div> SiLet https://www.freewiki.eu/en/index.php?title=Constantin_Hering&diff=748 Constantin Hering 2019-04-05T21:03:28Z <p>SiLet: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> {{empty page}}<br /> <br /> &lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#804000&quot;&gt;'''Constantine HERING&lt;br/&gt; (1800-1880, US)'''&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Constantine Hering, MD, the &quot;father&quot; of American homeopathy, was born on January 1, 1800 in the the town of Oschatz within the electorate of Saxony (now in Eastern Germany). He grew up in a religious household. In 1817 he attended the Surgical Academy of Dresden for three years and from 1820 he studied medicine at Leipzig University.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;While at Leipzig he was the student-assistant of a Dr Robbi, an antagonist of homoeopathy. Robbi was approached by a local publisher to write a book about the homoeopathic &quot;heresy&quot; but referred the publisher to Hering because of his own lack of time. Hering enthusiastically pursued this task, studying the writings of Hahnemann, repeating provings, and undertaking other practical experiments as part of his research. During this period, Hering received a dissecting wound that became inflamed and infected. He was advised to have his hand amputated but sought homoeopathic treatment and recovered. As a result of the evidence from his own investigations, Hering transferred his allegiance. But instead of writing the negative review, he immediately quit the job and left the University to become one of the most influential proponents of homeopathy of all time. Hering graduated from the University of Liepzig (in 1826). In his doctoral thesis titled, &quot;On the Medicine of the Future&quot;, Hering declared himself to be a homoeopath.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In the years of 1827-1833, Hering was sent to Paramaribo, Surinam by his King (of Saxony) where he conducted Zoological and Botanical research for his government. Soon after, the King attempted to prevent Hering from publishing his prolific homeopathic findings, but instead, Hering resigned the post and became the Physician-in-Attendance for the governor of Surinam's capitol, Paramaribo. Hering began focusing his attention on the discovery of new homeopathic remedies, the attenuation's and freshly quilled-data of which he would send, by sea, to Hahnemann in Paris, and to Stapf, his friend and publisher in Germany. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Hering accidentally proved the remedy Lachesis while he was triturating the Bushmasters venom in his home-laboratory in Paramaribo. He was attempting to find an improved substitute for the cowpox inoculation that Jenner was developing in Britain, which Hering felt was extremely dangerous and very heavy-handed for homeopathy. His interest and experience with snake venom led him to surmise that the saliva of a rabid dog, or powdered smallpox scabs, or any other disease products, viruses, or venom's, might be prepared in the new Hahnemannian way to give a fail-safe method of curing disease. In this manner Hering unwittingly became the first in the Isopathic movement (eventually, he also unwittingly paralyzed his right side from further self-testing or &quot;prufung&quot; of higher and higher attenuations of Lachesis). Hering stayed in Paramaribo for six years then emigrated to America and settled in Philadelphia in 1833.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In 1848 he chartered the Hahnemann Medical College of Pennslyvania which is still considered to be one of greatest homeopathic teaching institutions of all time (next to Kents Post Graduate School) and devised the Homoeopathic Domestic Kit. There Hering and his students treated over 50,000 patients a year and trained a total of 3500 homeopaths.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Hering began organizing his voluminous notes into his still popular classic The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica the year before he died, in 1879, and it was completed by his students and published posthumously in 1891.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Hering was the first to use nitroglycerine in medicine for headaches and heart problems (30 years before its first use in orthodox medicine). It is an irony that he himself suddenly died one evening of a heart attack after returning from a house call to a patient. This was on the 23rd June, 1880.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Constantine Hering is widely known as &quot;The Father of American Homeopathy&quot; and was profoundly revered by his contemporaries. His influence extended across the larger part of the USA for the best part of the 19th century with the result that homoeopathy flourished in that country for about 70 years. The motto he carried throughout his life was, &quot;The force of gentleness is great.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Hering's Law'''<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Constantine Hering was a German Homeopath who emigrated to the U.S. in the 1830's. He observed that healing occurs in a consistent pattern. He described this pattern in the form of three basic laws which homeopaths can use to recognize that healing is occurring. This pattern has been recognized by acupuncturists for hundreds of years and is also used by practitioners of herbalism and other healing disciplines.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;According to the first of Hering's laws, healing progresses from the deepest part of the organism - the mental and emotional levels and the vital organs - to the external parts, such as skin and extremities.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Hering's second law states that, as healing progresses, symptoms appear and disappear in the reverse of their original chronological order of appearance. Homeopaths have consistently observed that their patients re-experience symptoms from past conditions.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;According to Hering's third law, healing progresses from the upper to the lower parts of the body. For instance, a person is considered to be on the mend if the arthritic pain in his neck has decreased although he now has pain in his finger joints.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;As the symptoms change in accordance with Hering's Law, it is common for individual symptoms to become worse than they had been before treatment. If healing is truly in progress, the patient feels stronger and generally better in spite of the aggravation. Before long, the symptoms of the aggravation pass, and leave the person healthier on all levels.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The major English writings of Hering are:<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> •1. A Concise View of the Rise and Progress of Homoeopathic Medicine (1833)&lt;br/&gt; •2. The Homoeopathist, or Domestic Physician (2 volumes, 1835)&lt;br/&gt; •3. Hahnemann's Three Rules Concerning the Rank of Symptoms&lt;br/&gt; •4. Analytical Therapeutics&lt;br/&gt; •5. The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (10 volumes, 1879 - 1891). Completed after his death by homoeopaths and students.<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;</div> SiLet https://www.freewiki.eu/en/index.php?title=Melanie_Hahnemann&diff=747 Melanie Hahnemann 2019-04-05T21:00:26Z <p>SiLet: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> {{empty page}}<br /> <br /> == &lt;span style=&quot;font-size:larger&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Melanie Hahnemann&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt; Born: February 1, 1800 Deceased: May 27, 1878&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size:larger&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;At October 7, 1834, this woman arrived in Coethen to be cured by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, whose reputation and method of treatment have also been known at the river Seine. Over an extended period, she suffered from painful ‚tics‘ in the lower right abdomen. Already n the year 1832, she had read the main work of her physician, the Organon, and she was fascinated by it. Being descended from impoverished aristocracy, she was well educated and she has been an acknowledged painter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size:larger&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Starting from October 8, 1834, occasional entries in Hahnemann’s case records are missing. It is probable, that entries of her successful treatment were removed. During her treatment something happened, what she described as a ‚coup de foudre‘, a love at first sight. A few days later, Hahnemann proposed to her. She was 35, he was 80 years of age. The vehemence of their love was a big surprise for both. She wrote, „If I had realized earlier this incredible love, which erupted like a volcano, I would have hidden it. “ He wrote in a letter, „Never have I loved somebody as I love you; we will be in love for ever. “ – Her answer, “In my thoughts you will be my husband for ever, no other man will ever kiss my mouth. I put my trust in you and I swear eternal love and fidelity. “The initially warm relationship between her and his daughters had gone. They neglected this love.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size:larger&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;On January 18, 1835, after they have overcome numerous formalities, the wedding took place in Hahnemann’s House in Wallstreet in Coethen. To protect his beloved wife from malicious gossip, they were in need for a new environment. A voyage to Paris on June 7 became the farewell from Coethen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size:larger&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;After a short stay in her little apartment in Rue des Saint-Pères No. 26, the couple moved to a more spacious residence in Rue Madame No. 7. Melanie introduced her husband to Paris’ society. American actor Anna Cora Mowatt described the appearance of Hahnemann’s second wife in 1839, “The lady was a stylish appearing woman of more than average height and beautifully rounded figure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size:larger&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Her features were not those of a beauty, but she could readily be described as handsome. … Her complexion was bright and colourless like alabaster. In her big blue eyes lies an expression of deep thoughts, rendering something ceremonial on her face, if it will not be neutralized by the benevolent smile of her lips.“ She was strikingly blond.&lt;br/&gt; According to his correspondence, Melanie made her husband happy until the end. Since the end of the year 1836, they lived on a grand property.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size:larger&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Melanie increasingly got involved in working as secretary for her husband. In the end, writing was increasingly difficult for Hahnemann. After his death on July 2, 1843, she fell in terrible despair. She continued to run the clinic of her husband according to his instructions until 1848. She continued to keep his casebooks in which we can find handwritings of both. On May 27, 1878, she died after living a life including some chaotic events. She was buried aside the love of her life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size:larger&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;References: Robert Jütte: Samuel Hahnemann - Begründer der Homöopathie&lt;br/&gt; Christine Portner: Marie Melanie Hahnemann-D Hervilly Gohier&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ==</div> SiLet https://www.freewiki.eu/en/index.php?title=James_Compton_Burnett&diff=746 James Compton Burnett 2019-04-05T20:47:39Z <p>SiLet: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> [[File:James-compton-burnett.jpg|thumb|right|James Compton Burnett)]]<br /> <br /> '''James Compton Burnett''' (1840–1901), English physician and homeopath.<br /> <br /> James Compton Burnett was born on July 10, 1840&amp;nbsp;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;near Salisbury, Wiltshire,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and died April 2, 1901. &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;He qualified with honours from an orthodox medical school in Vienna in 1869, and then from Glasgow in 1876. He was awarded the Gold Medal in Anatomy upon graduation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Alfred Hawkes converted him to homeopathy in 1872 (in Glasgow). In 1876 he took his MD degree.<br /> <br /> &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;As a young boy, James had a rare insight into the realities of life, and was possessed of a largeness of heart that extended a worldwide charity to all human interests. He was never deluded by the affectations and conventionalities of modern society, nor of the academies. While most medical men only see what they have been told to look for, and see it only in the light they have been told to see it, Dr. Burnett was able to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;use his own judgment to obtain information from Nature, at first hand. It was this independence and originality which gave him his unique power over complicated problems, and which made his patients feel that here was a man who was not content to form opinions only.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;According to references, James was a dark-eyed, dreamy boy who grew rapidly. By the age of twenty-one he had attained the size and weight which he afterwards always maintained, both being much above the average. Brought up in the country, in early life he was left much to his own devices, and was always thoughtful beyond his years. He had an ordinary English education until he reached the age of sixteen, when he was sent to school in France, where he remained for a term of about three years. After this he travelled for several years, principally on the Continent, studying philology, the love of which in him amounted almost to a passion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;At one time he even had serious thoughts of devoting his life to that study. The effect of this is seen in the vivid literary style of which he was master. His unerring perception of the value of words is one of the many charms which make his books no less delightful reading than they are instructive and inspiring. Anatomy was the subject which fascinated him most, and he devoted to this science two years more of his time than the ordinary curriculum demanded. He prepared many valuable specimens for his professors during that term, and most of these are now preserved in the Pathological Museum of Vienna. Passing through a brilliant examination in anatomy, lasting one hour and a half, the professor shook hands with him, saying that he had never examined a student with so brilliant and thorough knowledge of anatomy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;During his medical profession, it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;was Dr. Richard Hughes’ book,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;A Manual of Pharmacodynamics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;'',''&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;the first respected Homeopathic textbook published in English, which had recruited Burnett himself and practically the whole of Burnett’s generation of rising young homeopaths in Britain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;<br /> <br /> Burnett was one of the first to speak about vaccination triggering illness. This was discussed in his book, Vaccinosis, published in 1884.Along with other nosodes, he introduced the remedy Baccillinum. &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;As a Homeopath &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Burnett was a productive writer and wrote twenty six books about many aspects of homeopathy. Some of his books are:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Fifty Reasons for Being a Homeopath -1888&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, is of particular note for beginning homeopaths.&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Dr. Burnett was provoked to write this work by some remarks made by a young allopathic medical man who regarded Homeopaths as quacks, and challenged Burnett to produce the fifty reasons, which he did, and Dr. Burnett replied&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;''“I could give fifty reasons for being a Homoeopath that if not singly, at least collectively, would convince a stone”.''&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Natrum mur as a Test of the Doctrine of Drug Dynamization -1878&lt;br/&gt; Curability of Cataract by Medicines – 1880&lt;br/&gt; Tumours of the Breast and their Cure – 1888&lt;br/&gt; The New Cure of Consumption – 1890&lt;br/&gt; Curability of Tumours with Medicine -1898&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;<br /> <br /> [[J.H._Clarke|J.H. Clarke]], Robert T. Cooper, and James Compton Burnett together formed the 'Cooper Club'. This regular meeting of leading British homeopaths was the source of many of the symptoms in Clarke's Dictionary of Materia Medica.<br /> <br /> Clarke says of Burnett, &quot;…during the last twenty years Burnett has been the most powerful, the most fruitful, and the most original force in homeopathy&quot;.<br /> &lt;div class=&quot;entry-content&quot;&gt;<br /> ''Ref: Biography – Life and Work of James Compton Burnett, 1904''<br /> &lt;/div&gt;</div> SiLet https://www.freewiki.eu/en/index.php?title=C.M._Boger&diff=745 C.M. Boger 2019-04-05T20:18:13Z <p>SiLet: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> {{empty page}}<br /> <br /> &lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#804000&quot;&gt;'''Cyrus Maxwell BOGER&lt;br/&gt; (1861-1935, US)'''&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Cyrus Maxwell Boger was born on May 13, 1861 in western Pennsylvania, the son of Cyrus and Isabelle Maxwell Boger.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;He received his elementary education in the public schools of Lebanon, Pa., then graduated in pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and later in medicine from Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He settled in Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1888 where a long and very large practise was his, patients consulting him from neighboring states and from distant states and countries.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;His ambition was to devote all his time to teaching and writing but he never reached the point of giving up his practise. However, he frequently lectured before scientific audiences at the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati and was a teacher of philosophy, materia medica, and repertory study in the American Foundation for Homoeopathy Postgraduate School from 1924 until his death.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Boger, who was a german scholar, brought ''Bœnninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory ''into the English Language in 1905.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;He was married three times. A daughter of the first marriage died quite young. The second marriage brought him four sons and five daughters. His third wife, Anna M. Boger, was his secretary and constant helper.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;He died on September 2, 1935, aged 74, from food-poisoning after eating a tin of home-preserved tomatoes.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;He was a devoted follower of the Boenninghausen method of a repertory study, as all his published works show.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Here is a list of his publications:<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> ''Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory&lt;br/&gt; Boenninghausen's Antipsorics&lt;br/&gt; Boger's Diphtheria, (The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of)&lt;br/&gt; A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, ''1915&lt;br/&gt; ''General Analysis with Card Index, ''1931&lt;br/&gt; ''Samarskite-A Proving&lt;br/&gt; The Times which characterize the Appearance and Aggravation of the Symptoms and their Remedies''<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt; <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Robert Bannan produced, in 1993, a collection of all of Boger's writings.</div> SiLet https://www.freewiki.eu/en/index.php?title=Clemens_von_Boenninghausen&diff=744 Clemens von Boenninghausen 2019-04-05T20:17:06Z <p>SiLet: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> {{empty page}}<br /> <br /> &lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#804000&quot;&gt;'''Clemens Maria Franz Von BŒNNINGHAUSEN&lt;br/&gt; (1785-1864, Germany)'''&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Clemens Maria Franz, Baron von Bœnninghausen was one of the most noteworthy of the early practitioners of Homœopathy. Born in the Netherlands on March 12, 1785, on the ancestral estate of Heringhaven in Overijssel, his lineage was traced through Westphalian and Austrian ancestry, one ancestor having been appointed as Field Marshal by Ferdinand II of Austria in 1632.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;His early life was spent in the open, and he entered rather late upon his education, but after once starting, his progress was rapid. He graduated from the Dutch university at Gröningen with the degree of Doctor of Civil and Criminal Law on August 30, 1806, and thereafter for several years he filled increasingly influential and arduous positions at the court of Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, remaining in the Dutch Civil Service until the resignation of the king on July 1, 1810.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;He then returned to his home and devoted himself to the sudy of agriculture and botany. He married in 1812 and removed to his hereditary estate of Darup. Through his interest in the development of agricultural resources he came in touch with the most prominent agriculturists of Germany, and he formed the first agricultural society in the western part of Germany. In 1816 he became President of the Provincial Court of Justice for Westphalia in Coesfield, which position he retained until 1822. About this time he became one of the Commissioners for the registration of lands and his constant travels gave him ample opportunity to study the Flora of Rhineland and Westphalia and he published a book on the subject: &quot;Prodromus Florae Monasteriensis.&quot; In 1824 he became Director of the Botanical Gardens of Munster, retaining this position for several years, and received much distinction from his botanical writings.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In 1827 he suffered a derangement of health, which had hitherto been excellent. Two of the most celebrated physicians obtainable declared this to be purulent tuberculosis. His health continued to decline until the spring of 1828, when all hope of his recovery was given up. At this time he wrote a farewell letter to his close botanical friend, August Weihe, M. D., who was the first homœopathic physician in the province of Rhineland and Westphalia, though Bœnninghausen was ignorant of the fact, their whole correspondence having touched on botanical, not medical, subjects. Weihe was deeply moved by the news and answered Bœnninghausen's letter immediately, requesting a detailed account of his symptoms and expressing the hope that by means of the newly found curative method he might be able to save a friend whom he valued so highly. In response to the reply which Bœnninghausen sent to this letter, Weihe sent some ''Pulsatilla'' which Bœnninghausen took according to the directions, following also the course of advice which Weihe gave him regarding hygienic measures. Bœnninghausen's recovery was gradual but constant, so that by the end of the summer he was considered as cured.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This event bred in Bœnninghausen a firm belief in Homœopathy and he became an active missionary. He revived his former knowledge of medicine and began to practise. But he had no license to practise as a physician and for this reason he devoted himself to literary labors upon subjects connected with Homœopathy. Most of the systematic works written by Bœnninghausen concerning Homœopathy were published between 1828 and 1846. By this time Bœnninghausen's fame had spread to France, Holland and America, and he had gained many converts to the new doctrine of healing among physicians in these lands, by correspondence and literary efforts, which were extended in the effort of making the work of practicing homœopathy easier. At this time, you will remember, there was no short way to approach the study of homœopathy. No repertories, save a brief one in Latin by Samuel Hahnemann himself, had been published as an index to point the way to the indicated homœopathic remedy, and many hours must have been devoted to the study of remedy after remedy before the true picture was seen.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, under date of July 11, 1843, issued to Bœnninghausen a document empowering him to practice medicine without any restraint.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;From 1830 Bœnninghausen was in close touch with Hahnemann, until the close of Hahnemann's life, and as long as Bœnninghausen lived he kept in close touch with all those practicing homœopathy. However, his literary work was much hampered by the permission to practice freely, and he did not publish his books as frequently after that event, although he spent much time at that labor. It is interesting to note that his earliest works found instant circulation among those interested in the new doctrine, and almost every practicing homœopath had Bœnninghausen's works in his library. Bœnninghausen's works in the order of their appearance are listed here&amp;nbsp;:<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> ''The Cure of Cholera and Its Preventatives (according to Hahnemann's latest communication to the author). ''1831.<br /> <br /> ''Repertory of the Antipsoric Medicines, ''with a preface by Hahnemann. 1932.<br /> <br /> ''Summary View of the Chief Sphere of Operation of the Antipsoric Remedies and of their Characteristic Peculiarities, as an Appendix to their Repertory. ''1833.<br /> <br /> ''An Attempt at a Homœopathic Therapy of Intermittent Fever. ''1833.<br /> <br /> ''Contributions to a Knowledge of the Peculiarities of Homœopathic Remedies. ''1833.<br /> <br /> ''Homœopathic Diet and a Complete Image of a Disease. ''(For the non-professional public.) 1833.<br /> <br /> ''Homœopathy, a Manual for the Non-Medical Public. ''1834.<br /> <br /> ''Repertory of the Medicines which are not Antipsoric. ''1935.<br /> <br /> ''Attempt at Showing the Relative Kinship of Homœopathic Medicines. ''1836.<br /> <br /> ''Therapeutic Manual for Homœopathic Physicians, for use at the sickbed and in the study of the Materia Medica Pura. ''1846.<br /> <br /> ''Brief Instructions for Non-Physicians as to the Prevention and Cure of Cholera. 1849.''<br /> <br /> ''The Two Sides of the Human Body and -Relationships. Homœopathic Studies. ''1853.<br /> <br /> ''The Hom. Domestic Physician in Brief Therapeutic Diagnoses. An Attempt. ''1853.<br /> <br /> ''The Homœopathic Treatment of Whooping Cough in its Various Forms. 1860.''<br /> <br /> ''The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, with Notes by a Homœopath. 1863.''<br /> <br /> ''Attempt at a Homœopathic Therapy of Intermittent and Other Fevers, especially for would be homœopaths. ''Second augmented and revised edition. Part 1. ''The Pyrexy. ''1864.<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt; <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;After the proclamation empowering him to practice medicine, Bœnninghausen founded the society for homœopathic physicians in Westphalia, which flourished for many years under the interest which was roused in the homœopaths whom Bœnninghausen drew about him. He also was made member of nearly all the existing homœopathic societies; the Western Homœopathic Medical College, in Cleveland, in 1854, gave him an honorary diploma; the Emperor of France appointed him a Knight of the Legion of Honor on April 20, 1861.<br /> <br /> {| style=&quot;border:undefined&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;<br /> |-<br /> | width=&quot;100%&quot; | <br /> [[File:|193x289px]]&lt;br/&gt; '''&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000080&quot;&gt;Carroll Dunham&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;'''<br /> <br /> |}<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Bœnninghausen was a close friend of Adolph Lippe, and also of Carroll Dunham. Both of these men expressed their appreciation of the work Bœnninghausen had accomplished, in Vol. 4 of the ''American Homœopathic Review.''<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Bœnninghausen for many years lived in Munster. He received patients daily from nine to two o'clock, from two to five he spent in walking about the suburbs and in the Botanical Gardens. He lived to attain the age of seventy-nine years, dying of apoplexy on January 26, 1864.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;No one man, except Hahnemann, has left so deep an impress upon the literature of Homœopathy, or has exerted so great an influence in favour of the Homœopathy taught by Hahnemann, as Bœnninghausen. His ''Therapeutic Pocket Book'', first published in1846, has been a guide to many, and other of the works of his scholarly pen have also been held in demand by the believers in pure Homœopathy. He devoted himself especially to presenting the Materia Medica so that the chief characteristics of each remedy might be thoroughly understood by the practitioner and his writings are mostly devoted to that object. The great literary work of his life was probably his editorship of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates with the Glosses of a Homœopathist.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Of his seven sons the two eldest chose homœopathic medicine as their profession, which was a great joy to him. The elder of these sons practiced for a time in the neighborhood of his boyhood home, later going to Paris where he married the adopted daughter of Hahnemann's widow. He lived with Madame Hahnemann and her daughter, and had access to Hahnemann's library and manuscripts.</div> SiLet https://www.freewiki.eu/en/index.php?title=Henry_Clay_Allen&diff=743 Henry Clay Allen 2019-04-05T20:14:08Z <p>SiLet: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> {{empty page}}<br /> <br /> &lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#804000&quot;&gt;'''Henry Clay ALLEN&lt;br/&gt; (1836-1909, US)'''&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Dr. Henry C. Allen was born [on February 10, 1836] in the village of Nilestown, near London, Ontario, and was the son of Hugh and Martha Billings Allen. On his paternal side, he was a descendant of that distinguished family of Vermonters of the same name, Gen. Ira Allen and Ethan Allen, both famous in the revolution. On his maternal side, the Billings' were well known among the Colonial families of Massachussetts Bay, and one of them, the great-grand-father of Dr. Allen, owned the farm lands on which the present city of Salem is built. After selling this property, the family moved to Deerfield, in the Connecticut Valley and were there at the time the Indians pillaged and ravaged that part of the country.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;He received his early education in the common and grammar schools at London, where he later taught school for a time. His medical education was acquired at the Western Homeopathic College at Cleveland, Ohio (now the Cleveland Homeopathic College), where he graduated in 1861, and later from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Shortly after graduation, he entered the Union Army, serving as a surgeon under General Grant.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;After the war he was offered and accepted the professorship on Anatomy in his Alma Mater at Cleveland, and it was here that he first started practicing medicine. Later he resigned and accepted the same chair in the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. In 1868 he was offered the Chair of Surgery to succeed Dr. Beebe, but was unable to accept. He then located in Brantford, Ontario, where on December 24th, 1867, he married Selina Louise Goold, who, with his two children, Franklin Lyman Allen and Helen Marian Allen Aird, survives him.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In 1875 he moved to Detroit, Michigan, and in 1880, being appointed Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Michigan, he moved to Ann Arbor, where he has since resided.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In 1892 he founded the Hering Medical College and Hospital, of which he was Dean and Professor of Materia Medica until his death, January 22nd, 1909.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Dr. Allen was an honorable senior of the American Institute of Homeopathy&amp;nbsp;; a number of the International Hahnemannian Association&amp;nbsp;; of the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association&amp;nbsp;; of the Englewood Homeopathic Medical Society&amp;nbsp;; of the Regular Homeopathic Medical Society of Chicago&amp;nbsp;; Honorary Vice-President of the Cooper Club of London, England&amp;nbsp;; and Honorary Member of the Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio State Medical Societies and Honorary Member of the Homeopathic Society of Calcutta, India.<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;He was owner and editor of the ''Medical Advance ''for many years. Besides writing many articles in this and other magazines he wrote numerous books, among which are the following&amp;nbsp;:<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> ''Keynotes of Leading Remedies, ''lately placed on the ''Council List of Books ''for use in the Canadian Medical Colleges;<br /> <br /> ''The Homeopathic Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever''<br /> <br /> ''The Homeopathic Therapeutics of Fevers''<br /> <br /> ''Therapeutics of Tuberculous Affections''<br /> <br /> and recently completed the revision of Bœnninghausen's ''Slip Repertory, ''which he brought down to date and arranged for rapid and practical work.<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt; <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This, his latest work, a treatise on the Nosodes, was completed only a short time before his death, and was the result of years of study, experience, and of proving and confirming the symptomatology of many of the nosodes. His observations are here published for the first time.<br /> <br /> '''''&lt;font color=&quot;#800000&quot;&gt;Franklin Lyman ALLEN&lt;/font&gt;'''''<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;<br /> <br /> &lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Note: This biography was written by the son of Henry C., Franklin Lyman Allen. It was issued in the posthumous edited &quot;Materia medica of the nosodes with provings of the X-Ray&quot;, Philadelphia: Boericke &amp; Tafel, 1910.&lt;/font&gt;</div> SiLet