James Dore Blake 1805 - 1874
December 13, 2008
James Dore Blake 1805 - 1874
MD
MRCSE
1846
became a
member
of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1847,
having
attended
the School of Medicine in Charlotte
Street,
Surgeon to The Taunton Convent, The West of England Proprietary School,
the Accidental Death Insurance Company and the Provincial Life Assurance
Company, was
an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, he graduated from
the Hahnemann College in Philadelphia in
1853,
and he was also a
member
of The Hahnemann Medical
Society,
and a member of the Association for the Protection of Homeopathic
Students and
Practitioners,
alongside George Edward
Allshorn,
George Atkin, Francis
Black, John
Chapman, Paul
Francois
Curie, John
James
Drysdale,
Robert Ellis
Dudgeon, George
Fearon, Edward
Hamilton, William
Hering, C. B.
Kerr, William
Kingdon, Joseph
Laurie, Thomas
Robinson
Leadam, John
Ozanne, John Rutherford
Russell,
David Wilson and many
others.
James Dore Blake was born in Salisbury and educated in Leamington. He qualified as a doctor in 1847 only to be instantly dismissed because he was a homeopath, but the charges against him were ‘jumped up’, as the declarations of his examination medical competence bear witness. He wrote about this experience in Homeopathy at Taunton: the case of Mr. James Dore Blake and the Royal College of Surgeons in 1848 (James Dore Blake, Homeopathy at Taunton: the case of Mr. James Dore Blake and the Royal College of Surgeons, (Highley, 1848).
He made many medical converts to homeopathy during his career.
James Dore Blake practiced in Taunton, and at the Taunton Homeopathic Pharmacy.
James Dore Blake’s Obituary is in The British Journal of Homeopathy 1875.
James Dore Blake wrote Homeopathy at Taunton. The Case of Mr. James Dore Blake and the Royal College of Surgeons.
Of interest:
J G H Blake (?-?) attended (Anon, The Homeopathic World, Volume 43, (1908). Page 236) the 2nd International Homeopathic Congress held in London (Anon, The Medical Counselor, Volume 7, (The Michigan State Homeopathic Society, 1883). Page 347) in on 11th-18th July 1881 (Anon, The Homeopathic World, (August 1,1881)) at Aberdeen House, Argyll Street, Regent Street.
Edward Thomas Blake 1842 - 1905 MD Aberdeen was the 4th son of James Dore Blake and was also a homeopath, and he was a homeopath at the Wolverhampton and Stafford Homeopathic Dispensary.
F Blake was a Steward at the Annual Festival in aid of the funds of the Charity, and in commemoration of the opening of the London Homeopathic Hospital on Thursday, the 10th of April 1851,
J N Blake was the Physician at the Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall Homeopathic Dispensary (later the Plymouth Homeopathic Dispensary and Cottage Hospital),