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Samuel Hahnemann

          Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was born in Meissen, Saxony, near Dresden. His father Christian Gottfried Hahnemann was a painter and designer of porcelain, for which the town of Meissen is famous.           As a young man, Hahnemann became proficient in a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, Greek and Latin. He eventually made a living as a translator and teacher of languages, gaining further proficiency in "Arabic, Syriac, Chaldaic and Hebrew".           Hahnemann studied medicine for two years at Leipzig. Citing Leipzig's lack of clinical facilities, he moved to Vienna, where he studied for ten months. After one term of further study, he graduated MD at the University of Erlangen on 10 August 1779, qualifying with honors. His poverty may have forced him to choose Erlangen, as the school's fees were lower. Hahnemann's thesis was titled Conspectus adfectuum spasmodicorum aetiologicus et th

Materia Medica

List of Materia Medica Available    Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica -  James Tyler Kent Seven-Hundred Red Line symptoms from cowperthwaite's Materia Medica -  John Woodsides Hutchinson, M. D. Regional Leaders -  Eugene Beauharnais NASH Homeopathic Materia Medica -  WILLIAM BOERICKE, M.D. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparison of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica -  HENRY CLAY ALLEN, M. D. Biochemic/Tissue salts Materia Medica A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica -  John Henry Clarke

Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica - James Tyler Kent

          James Tyler Kent (1849–1916) was an American physician best remembered as a forefather of modern homoeopathy. In 1897 Kent published a massive guidebook on human physical and mental disease symptoms and their associated homoeopathic preparations entitled Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica, which has been translated into a number of languages. It has been the blueprint to many modern repertories used throughout the world and even remains in use by some homoeopathic practitioners today. Life and career Early years James Tyler Kent was born on March 31, 1849, in Woodhull, New York, the son of Steven Kent and his wife Caroline Tyler. Kent was raised as a staunch Baptist. Kent attended secondary school at the Franklin Academy of Prattsburgh, New York before enrolling at Madison University (today's Colgate University), from which he was graduated with a Bachelor's degr

Seven-Hundred Red Line symptoms from cowperthwaite's Materia Medica - John W. Hutchinson, M. D.

  HUTCHINSON, JOHN, New York City, was born in Gilead, the town of Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut, on February 28, 1860. His parents were John Calvin and Maryetta (Keeney) Hutchinson. He is a descendant of Edward Fuller, who came in the "Mayflower" in 1620; of William Hyde, one of the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut; of Gibbons Jewett, surgeon in the revolutionary war; of Stephen Post, who came from Chelmsford, Essex, England, by ship "Griffin" to Hartford, 1633; of John Bissell, from Somersetshire, England, who came to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1628, and to Windsor, Connecticut, in 1640. His great-grandfather, Jonathan Hutchinson, Jr., served in the revolution, and his grandfather, John Bissell Hutchinson, was a captain in the state militia. Dr Hutchinson was educated in public and private schools. He prepared for his profession under the preceptorship of Dr Plumb Brown, Springfield, Massachusetts, in the medical department of the Unive

Regional Leaders - Eugene Beauharnais NASH

 Eugene Beauharnais "E. B." Nash (8 March 1838, Hillsdale, New York – 6 November 1917, Cortland, New York) was one of America's leading 19th century homeopaths.           He graduated from Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College in 1874. He served as Professor of Materia Medica in the New York Homeopathic Medical College, and also taught at the Homoeopathic Hospital of London.      In 1903 he became president of the International Hahnemannian Association (IHA).           He is best known as an author of books on homeopathy. His obituary in The Homeopathic Recorder remembered him as, "one of the great teachers of medicine...[who] will live in his books and in the hearts of the many doctors he has helped to be better physicians," and stated, "There are a host of homoeopathic physicians in different parts of the world to-day that owe their success in healing the sick to the writings of Eugene B. Nash List

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparison of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica - HENRY CLAY ALLEN, M. D.

            Henry C. Allen 1836 - 1909 was Professor of Diseases of the Skin and Miasmatics and founder of the Hering Medical College, City Physician at the Baptist Hospital and the Hering Hospital, an honorable senior of the American Institute of Homeopathy, a member of the International Hahnemannian Association, the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association, the Englewood Homeopathic Medical Society, the Regular Homeopathic Medical Society of Chicago, Honorary Vice-President of the Cooper Club of London, England, Honorary Member of the Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio State Medical Societies and Honorary Member of the Homeopathic Society of Calcutta, India.           Allen was owner and editor of the Medical Advance for many years. Besides writing many articles in this and other magazines he wrote numerous books which are still standard textbooks for modern homeopaths.           Hahnemann’s teachings were often deemed dogma