William Henry Mayne 1819 - 1876
April 05, 2009
William Henry Mayne 1819? - 1876? MD,
LRCS,
was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. Mayne was
a
member
of the British Homeopathic
Society
from its inception in
1844.
Mayne was a
member
of the Medical Council of the London Homeopathic
Hospital,
a Medical
Officer
at the Westminster and Lambeth Homeopathic institute and
Dispensary
with Edward
Hamilton,
and at the West End Homeopathic
Dispensary
with Jones and Gurthrie, and Assistant
Demonstrator
at the Blenheim Street School of Medicine.
Mayne was a student of Paul Francois Curie, alongside Thomas Engall, John Ozanne, Samuel Thomas Partridge, and Viettingoff.
Mayne practiced in London in 1844, and in Ipswich in 1851, alongside George Mayne MD, MRCS England 1832, and Henry Robertson.
Mayne wrote On the use of Caster oil as a powerful Anti Spasmodic, with satisfactory results from its use in cholera, diarrhoea and dry bellyache, On the use of the accustomed stimulus in delerium tremens,
Of interest:
J Mayne 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,