James Peddie Harper 1830 – 1906
James Peddie Harper ?1830 – ?1906 LRCS Edinburgh 1848, MD Edinburgh 1848, MBHS, was a British orthodox physician, Physician at the Fever and Casualty Hospital in Leith, Surgeon to the Edinburgh Artilery Regimental Militia, House Surgeon at the Royal Dumfries Infirmary, Assistant Medical Officer at Minto House Hospital and Dispensary, who converted to homeopathy to [...]
Robert Harmer Smith 1823 – 1893
Robert Harmer Smith ?1823 – ?1893 MD Glasgow 1853, MRCS England 1853, LSA London 1853, LM 1862, MBHS, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, joined the British Homeopathic Society in 1861, and who was politically active in the homeopathic community, Harmer Smith was a Physician at the Norfolk and Norwich Homeopathic Dispensary, [...]
William Gwillim 1799 – 1881
William Gwillim 1799 – 1881 LSA London 1819, MRCS England 1821, MD Erlangen 1831, was a Britishh orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, In 1855, William Gwillim was living at Berbice Villa, Hereford and he was a member of the British Institute of Homeopathy. In 1868, he was a Medical officer at the Cheltenham Homeopathic [...]
Charles II Duke of Parma 1799 – 1883
Charles II Duke of Parma (Charles Louis of Bourbon Parma) (Carlo Ludovico di Borbone Parma) 1799 – 1883 was King of Etruria (1803–1807), Duke of Lucca (1824–1847), and Duke of Parma (1847–1849). Duke of Lucca employed homeopath Guiseppe Belluomini as his physician in 1846, and he also employed homeopaths Joseph Attomyr, Settimio Centamori, Georg von [...]
Rustum Roy 1924 – 2010
Rustum Roy 1924 – 2010 was an American materials scientist who held visiting professorships in materials science at Arizona State University and in medicine at the University of Arizona, as well as an emeritus position at Pennsylvania State University in three departments. He described himself as a science policy analyst, advocate of interdisciplinary education and [...]
David d’Angers 1788 – 1856
Pierre Jean David 1788 – 1856 usually called David d’Angers, was a French sculptor (photo from McCormick Library of Special Collections). David d’Angers was a friend of Samuel and Melanie Hahnemann, and he produced two life sized busts of Samuel Hahnemann, one of which was meant as a gift for the Hering College of Homeopathy [...]
Francois Joseph Victor Broussais 1772 -1838*
Francois Joseph Victor Broussais 1772 -1838 was a French orthodox physician who championed the use of leeches in Paris, and who became an advocate of homeopathy in his last days. Broussais eventually became an advocate and a patient of homeopathy, receiving treatment from the homeopath Frapart, after declaring that orthodox medicine was ‘more harmful than [...]
Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot 1787 -1874
Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot 1787 -1874 was a French historian, orator, and statesman. In 1835 Guizot reprimanded the French Academy of Medicine for their ‘intemperate attack’ on homeopathy and for their ‘scathing criticism’ of Samuel Hahnemann: ‘Hahnemann is a learned man of great worth. Science must be free for all. If homeopathy is a chimera, [...]
Francis Russell 7th Duke of Bedford 1788 – 1861
Francis Russell 7th Duke of Bedford KG, PC 1788 – 1861, styled Marquess of Tavistock from 1802 to 1839, was a British peer and Whig politician. Lord Tavistock was a patient and advocate of homeopathy, with relatives in America who were homeopathic physicians (see below), the Duke of Bedford was a President of the Royal [...]
Richard Beamish 1798 – 1873
Richard Beamish 1798 – 1873 was an Irish Civil Engineer, who worked as an assistant engineer on the Thames Tunnel, who was an assistant to Marc Isambard Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Richard Beamish was a Member of the Management Committee of the British Homeopathic Association in 1847, a Member of the Management Board of [...]
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