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George Vicesimus Wigram 1805 – 1879

George Vicesimus Wigram 1805 – 1879

By Sue on July 9, 2009

George Vicesimus Wigram 1805 – 1879 was an English biblical scholar and theologian, and one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren. George Vicesimus Wigram was a patient of homeopath Thomas Mackern, and a colleague of homeopath Edward Cronin, and he was also a friend of homeopath John Epps, who knew several Plymouth Brethren and [...]

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Thomas R Mackern 1807 – 1874

Thomas R Mackern 1807 – 1874

By Sue on July 9, 2009

Thomas R Mackern 1807? – 1874 MD, LRCSI, MRCSE Ireland 1842, Licentiate of Midwifery, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, 1837, was an Irish orthodox physician, born in Limerick, who converted to homeopathy, to become a Surgeon at the London Homeopathic Hospital, Surgeon at the Clapham and Kennington Homeopathic Dispensary, member of the British Homeopathic Society, Thomas Mackern [...]

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Thomas George Stonham 1859 – 1925

Thomas George Stonham 1859 – 1925

By Sue on July 9, 2009

Thomas George Stonham 1859 – 1925? MD London, MRCS, was a British orthodox physician, surgeon and dentist, and a member of the British Medical Association, who converted to homeopath to become a Physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital, the Vice President of the British Homeopathic Society, a member of the Faculty of Homeopathy, and an [...]

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1810 – 1865

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1810 – 1865

By Sue on July 7, 2009

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1810 – 1865, often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist. Elizabeth Gaskell was a close friend of Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, William Howitt, Walter Savage Landor, George Henry Lewes, James Martineau, Mary Elizabeth Clarke Mohl, Bessie Rayner Parkes, John Ruskin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, In 1853, Elizabeth [...]

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Darnell Cooper 1890 – 1960

Darnell Cooper 1890 – 1960

By Sue on July 7, 2009

Darnell Cooper 1890? – 1960? was a British lay homeopath who ran correspondence courses in homeopathy in the 1940s and 1950s. Darnell Cooper was a colleague of J Ellis Barker, John Henry Clarke, Edward W Cotter, John DaMonte, Donald MacDonald Foubister, Arthur Jenner, Thomas Maughan, Noel Puddephatt, Phyllis M Speight, Edwin D W Tomkins Frank Parker [...]

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Emma Hardinge Britten 1823 – 1899

Emma Hardinge Britten 1823 – 1899

By Sue on July 5, 2009

Emma Hardinge Britten 1823 – 1899 was a British advocate for the early Modern Spiritualist Movement. Britten was a patient of John Franklin Gray, and Abram D Wilson, and she was a friend of Thomas Henry Burgoyne, Peter Davidson, In 1879, Britten claivoyantly wrote homeopathic prescriptions for many people using automatic writing (Emma Hardinge Britten, Nineteenth Century [...]

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William Percy Purdom 1881 – 1918

William Percy Purdom 1881 – 1918

By Sue on July 5, 2009

William Percy Purdom 1881 – 1918 MB, BS London, MRCS England, LRCP London 1906, was a British orthodox physician, at Guy’s Hospital in 1909, who converted to homeopathy to become Physician for Diseases of Children, and Consultant Anaesthetist at the London Homeopathic Hospital, In 1908, William Percy Purdom was a student of James Tyler Kent, and [...]

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George Mann Carfrae 1838 – 1900

George Mann Carfrae 1838 – 1900

By Sue on July 3, 2009

George Mann Carfrae 1838? – 1900 MD Edinburgh, was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become House Surgeon at the London Homeopathic Hospital, President and Fellow of the British Homeopathic Society, member of Royal Institution of Great Britain, Surgeon at George Heriot’s Hospital, and a Medical Referee for the London Fire Department. Carfrae [...]

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Edwin D W Tomkins 1916 – 1992

Edwin D W Tomkins 1916 – 1992

By Sue on July 2, 2009

Edwin D W Tomkins 1916 – 1992 was a British research chemist and lay homeopath. Edwin Tomkins was a student of Percival George Quinton and Otto Leeser, and he was a colleague of J Ellis Barker, John Henry Clarke, Darnell Cooper, Edward W Cotter, John DaMonte, Donald MacDonald Foubister, Arthur Jenner, Thomas Maughan, Noel Puddephatt, [...]

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Edward Cronin 1801 – 1882

Edward Cronin 1801 – 1882

By Sue on June 29, 2009

Edward Cronin 1801 – 1882 MD Dublin 1828, was a pioneer of homeopathy in England and one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Edward Cronin was on the Medical Council of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square alongside William Henry Ashurst, William Thomas Berger, A E Blest, W A Case, James Chapman, [...]

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