Antonio Negro 1908 - 2010 MD was an
Italian orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy.
Antonio Negro was the homeopathic
physician
of Pope Paul
VI,
who awarded
him
the 
Order of St.
Gregory
for his work in homeopathy.
Antonio Negro was a colleague of Proceso Sanchez
Ortega,
In June 2014 in Rome, the Museum of Homeopathy was inaugurated and
sponsored by the Foundation Negro ‘… The Museum of Homeopathy-
Italian historical Archive, was born from a project of prof. Antonio
Negro (1908 – 2010), founder of the Italian Academy of Homeopathy
and __LUIMO, leader of modern Italian Homeopathy. Most of the
development of Italian Homeopathy is due to him. The Museum is in Piazza
Navona 49 in Rome, taking place where the Accademia Italiana di Medicina
Omeopatica (AIMO) ha organized and developed its activity for 50 years,
from 1953 to
2003... (See https://www.facebook.com/events/473503862728368/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular)…’
From an email from Francesco Negro, MD and Paolo Negro, MD on 10th
July 2014 - and with grateful thanks for the photographs supplied here
with this fascinating biography: ‘… ANTONIO NEGRO
… Antonio
Negro was born in Alassio,in the western cost of Liguria, on June 17th
1908. He received his education in the Salesian Institute, founded by
Saint Giovanni Bosco. Completed his classical studies, he began his
study of Medicine at University of Genua, following advise from his
family doctor Dante Bisceglia; homoeopath, that studied in the
Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia under the wing of Costantine
Hering, the founder of the American homeopathy (… I was only twelve
when I heard the word “homeopathy” for the first time). Attending
classes of important doctors like Maragliano, Remotti and Tusini he
met Nicola Pende. In that time he was founding the Italian modern
endocrinology. That meeting was vital for his education and clinical
orientation. He begun his apprentice and will follow him in Rome at
Sapienza University as associate from 1935 to 1950. In Rome, working
in the military hospital of Celio, during the War, he did not forget
homeopathy although he was also active in the academic and hospital
life with his master.
Indeed he increased his study and tested therapeutic results helped by
endocrinology and orthogenesis studies (he will teach it at
university) and constitutionalism by Pende. He joined the Roman
Homeopathy Centre with other doctors (like Cigliano, Chinaglia,
Galeazzi Lisi and the Tosi Brothers). Thanks to them Italian
homeopathy was saved by the downfall started in the end of ‘800 till I
world wide war. He will soon become director of the Centre and felt
the urgent need to change it. His house will host some young doctors
and students starving to homeopathy studies. On July 1947 he funded
the Centro Ippocratico Hahnemanniano Italiano (C.I.H.I.), with some
colleagues (Baratta, Pavignano, Santini and Sardoni) and other
supporters (De Leva, Lucenti, Pantaleo, Ristori). (“…homeopathy’s
spread in our country will depend on this Italian scientific and
homeopathic organization; although it’s time to be alined to the level
spread reached by other countries). It’s the beginning of Italian
homeopathy and he will spend his entire life to develop it. The
C.I.H.I. based in G. Belli street will be supported by Associazione
Omeopatica Italiana (A.O.I.), homeopathic library and homeopathic
Practice for needy people. In 1947C.I.H.I. launched homeopathic
classes. First classes took place into the Noble Chemical and
Pharmaceutical College. Two year later it will move in the new address
in via G. Cesare. In 1949 the Istituto Omeopatico Italiano (I.M.O.) is
founded based in Rome and Milan. Negro will be supported by Count
Giancarlo Dal Verme, great fan of homeopathy. Pharmaceutical industry
will show its interest on homeopathy because of I.M.O. During the
Fifties Antonio Negro built relations with international schools: the
Leon Vannier French one and the Swiss school of Pierre Schmidt. In
1953 founded the Accademia Italiana di Medicina Italiana
Hahnemanniana (A.I.M.O.)
.
Classes, currently carried on even now, were launched by Pende in the
new address of Navona Square. The academy became soon a landmark for
homeopathic Italian doctors. New partnership were built (Catena,
Croce, Fontana, Leoni, Mosso).Homeopathic medical review was launched
and became the official academy tool. Scientific activities and
homeopathic developing were carried on. Organization of many national
meetings increased Institutional interests of Presidents of Italian
Republic, Sandro Pertini, Francesco Cossiga and Oscar Scalfaro to
Negro’s activities. National Institute of Health will nominate him as
homeopathic medical commission “representative”. In the Seventies two
more adventures: in Rome in 1972 he founded the Società IAmbulatori di
Medicina Omeopatica (S.A.M.O.); new students will join the team, and
also his son Francesco Eugenio which later will lead on. In the same
year he founded also a series of books of homeopathic medicine
(Fratelli Palombi editors). In 1970 in Naples Antonio Negro,
reorganized the Neapolitan homeopathic medicine, helped by Alma
Rodriguez, doctor and drug chemist. He will follow this project for
almost twenty years. He founded the Centro di Medicina Omeopatica
Napoletana (Ce.M.O.N.) dedicated to Tommaso Cigliano. In 1976 founded
the Libera Università Internazionale di Medicina Omeopatica
(L.U.I.M.O.) supported by Thomas Paschero (Buenos Aires), Proceso
Ortega (City of Mexico) and Rodriguez; creating a wide cooperation
with the main South American homeopathic schools. In the same year
will chair the Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis till he get
nominated as member in 1988. In 1991 regardless his advanced age,
Antonio Negro started a new project in Rome. He founded the Scuola
Italiana di Medicina Omeopatica Hahnemanniana (S.I.M.O.H.) supported
by few students and Maria Letizia Salvi. He will manage it till the
end of his life. He also founded the homoeopathic Library dedicated to
Evelino Leonardi, the homeopathic Center dedicated to Ferdinando
Meconi and the Biopathology and Orthogenesis Center of Research
dedicated to Nicola Pende
._
He promoted a series of books named “Similia similibus curentur” and
in 2006 established the “S. Hahnemann” award. His last foundation was
the Museo dell’ Omeopatia located in Navona Square, already set in
motion in 2006. The museum is sponsored by italian cultural assets
department. In 2007 Italian homeopathic biography is published and in
2008, in the occasion of his 100 birthday, Antonio Negro gave his
medical archive and his private homeopathic collection to the museum
(www.fondazionenegro.it). Antonio Negro died in Rome on march 25th
2010. Everybody agreed that the father of italian homeopathy left
emptiness and also his humanity and passion for leading on his
profession. Being a person of great spirituality he had the reward of
Popes Pius XII, Paul VI, Benedict XIV. Diocese of Rome gave him the
Good Samaritan award. In the funeral sermon archbishop Vincenzo Paglia
remembered him like a “ God’s friend, men’s doctor ”…’_
From
http://www.omeopatiasimoh.net/The
Italian School of Hahnemannian Homeopathic Medicine (S.I.M.O.H
Homeopathic Medical Organization and Educational
Society) was founded (1947) through
the initiative and work of Prof. Antonio Negro, the President and
Director of Medical Scientific Activity, and a former student of Prof.
Nicola Pende (endocrinology, biotipology, italian constitutional
medical school) and Assistant for twenty years at the Institute of
Special Medical Pathology and Clinical Methodology of the Faculty of
Medicine and Surgery at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.”
Thanks to his scientific research, his teaching experience and his
clinical therapeutic work of many years, Prof. Antonio Negro is
considered the founder of the School of Homeopathic Medicine in Italy
and the promoter of the most significant international links for this
scientific discipline.
Antonio Negro wrote Bibliografia omeopatica
italiana,
Elementi di terapia
omeopatica,
Of interest:
http://www.luimo.org/news.php?id=NE000171 ’… *June
the 17th, 6 to 8 pm, at Piazza Navona 49 – Roma, opening of the first
Italian Museum of Homeopathy. The Museum of Homeopathy-
Italia historical Archive, was born from a project of Professor
Antonio Negro **{::}(1908 – 2010), founder of the Italian Academy
of Homeopathy and LUIMO, leader of modern Italian Homeopathy. Most of
the development of Italian Homeopathy is due to him. The Museum is in
Piazza Navona 49 in Rome, taking place where the Accademia Italiana
di Medicina Omeopatica (AIMO) ha organized and developed its activity
for 50 years, from 1953 to 2003. The **Homeopathy Museum is unique
in Italy. In Europe, the only other homeopathy museum is located in
Stuttgart in Germany at the Bosch Trust Institute for the History of
Medicine, where the Samuel Hahnemann manuscripts are conserved.
The** Italian Homeopathy Museum** maintain documents of great
historical interest. Many private archives form important homeopaths
(Archivio Pompilj, Archivio Tosi, Archivio Galatzer, Archivio
Negro) as well as other homeopaths of the XIX and XX centuries.
That’s why the museum has been promoted by the Italian Ministry of
Cultural Heritage. Many other archives, will be soon enrich the
Museum. The** Museum library** includes a rich collection of
Homeopathy writings in many languages (Italian, German, French,
English, Spanish). Of special interest the section of ancient Italian
editions, including first editions printed during the XIX century and
classified in the A.Negro-F.E.Negro: Bibliografia Omeopatica Italiana,
Franco Angeli Ed. Roma,2007. The Museum conserves the world
largest collection (over 200 ) of homeopathic medicines Kits or
Trousses, as well as other Memorabilia and documents concerning
Homeopathy during the period spanning the XIX and XX
centuries. The Museum **will promote expositions, meetings,
seminars, scientific and didactic publications as a reference point
for Homeopathy in Italy and Europe. The **Museum **entry will be free
and open to the researchers consultation. At the occasion of the
museum Inauguration the Italian Mail** will print a commemorative
stamp. Please contact prof. Francesco Negro if you want to plan a
visit (info@fondazionenegro-archiviostorico.it)…‘*
Francesco Eugenio
Negro
1944 - , son of Antonio Negro, was the homeopathic
physician
of Pope John Paul
II.
Francesco Eugenio Negro has written several books on homeopathy,
including Ho visitato Chopin: divagazioni tra omeopatia e
psicoanalisi,
Grandi a piccole dosi: la parentesi omeopatica di vite
famose,
L’agopuntura e l’omeopatia nell’analgesia
medica,
Dizionario di
omeopatia,