History of Homœopathy
Biographies
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
ANSTALL, ALFRED, Baltimore,
Maryland, was born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1852. He was educated in the public schools of Washington, D. C., and commenced the study
of medicine in the office of Tullio S. Verdi, M. D. He attended his first course of lectures at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, 1872-3,
and took post-graduate courses in Columbia Hospital for Women, College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington, D. C., 1873 ; New York Homœopathic
Medical College and Hospital, 1873-4, and 1874-5 ; and in the New York Ophthalmic School and Hospital, 1874-5. He graduated from the New York Homœopathic
Medical College and Hospital with the degree of M. D. in 1875, and from the Ophthalmic School and Hospital in 1875. He practiced in New York city from
1875 to 1878, and removed to Baltimore in April, 1878, where he has since resided. He was resident surgeon of the New York Ophthalmic Hospital from 1875
to 1878 ; attending physician to the New York Homœopathic Medical College Dispensary, 1875 to 1878 ; lecturer in the New York Ophthalmic
School and Hospital, 1876-7 ; librarian New York County Homœopathic Medical Society, 1875-8 ; oculist and aurist, and physician in charge of
the Baltimore Homœopathic Free Dispensary, 1878 to 1892 ; physician to St. Peters Protestant Episcopal Orphan Asylum for Girls, Baltimore, 1881 to
1897 ; chairman Bureau of Ophthalmology, Otology and Laryngology of the American Institute of Homœopathy, 1886 ; secretary of the American
Homœopathic Ophthalmological and Otological Society, 1885-7, member of the American Institute of Homœopathy, the Maryland State Homœopathic Medical
Society ; and honorary member of the New York State Homœopathic Medical Society. Dr. Wanstall’s contributions to the literature of his profession
include “Erysipelas of the Globe and its Appendages,” American Observer, July, 1878 ; “Recent Advances in Ophthalmology,”
transactions American Homœopathic Ophthalmological and Otological Society, 1878 ; “The Color Sense and Color Blindness,” Homœopathic
Times, December, 1879 ; “Progressive Atrophy of the Optic Nerve and Failure of the Phenomena of the Knee,” American Observer, January,
1879 ; “Advances in Ophthalmology” for 1878, Transactions of the American Homœopathic Ophthalmological and Otological Society, 1879 ;
“Glaucoma Simplex,” “Phosphorus,” American Observer, October. 1880 ; “A Peculiar Sclero-Corneal New Formation,”
transactions of the American Homœopathic Ophthalmological and Otological Society for 1880 ; “Reflex Aphasia from a Glaucomatous Bulbus,”
transactions for 1880 American Homœopathic Ophthalmological and Otological Society ; “Spring Catarrh of the Conjunctiva,” transactions
for 1881 of the American Homœopathic Ophthalmological and Otological Society ; “Periodicity in Aural Disease,” transactions American Homœopathic
Ophthalmological and Otological Society, 1882 ; “Clinical Cases,” transactions American Ophthalmological and Otological Society,
1882 ; “Conjunctivitis Granulosa,” transactions American Institute of Homœopathy, 1880 ; “Detachment of the Retina associated
with Albuminuria,” transactions American Homœopathic Ophthalmological and Otological Society, 1883 ; “Concealed Secondary Hemorrhage
Following Enucleation,” transactions American Homœopathic Ophthalmological and Otological Society, 1884-5 ; “Peroxide of Hydrogen,”
transactions American Institute of Homœopathy, 1885 ; “Purulent Inflammation of the Conjunctiva of the New Born,” New England Medical
Gazette, August, 1885 ; “Ferrum Phosphoricum in Inflammatory Affections of the Ear,” American Institute of Homœopathy, 1886 ;
“Concerning the Early Diagnosis and Predisposing Causes of Myopathic Spinal Curvature,” North American Journal of Homœopathy, August, 1887 ;
“The Relations of Malaria to the Eye, Ear and Throat,” transactions American Institute of Homœopathy, 1887 ; “Rheumatic
Endocarditis ; Glonoine,” North American Journal of Homœopathy, November, 1887 ; “The Neurotic Effects of Mercury,”
Hahnemannian Monthly, June, 1888 ; “On the Evidence of the Efficacy of Therapeutic Methods,” North American Journal of Homœopathy,
September, 1888 ; “Follicular Tonsillitis,” Hahnemannian Monthly, April, 1893 ; “The Present Status of the Homœopathic Materia
Medica,” Hahnemannian Monthly, June, 1896 ; “The Use of the Little Finger in Counting the Pulse ;” “The Rationale of the
Tobacco Habit,” Philadelphia Medical journal, 1898 ; “The Status of Homœopathy,” Hahnemannian Monthly, March. 1902 ;
“Acute Diffuse Gonococcus Peritonitis,” Hahnemannian Monthly, May, 1902 ; “Pertussis, With Special Reference to its Early Diagnosis
From the. Blood Findings,” American Medicine, January, 1903 ; “Homœopathy -Its Rational Place in Drug Therapeutics,” Hahnemannian
Monthly, December, 1902 ; “The Relation of Homœopathy to Empiricism,” Hahnemannian Monthly, November, 1903 ; “An Examination
into the Evidence Upon Which the Action of Silimars was Predicted as a Law,” North American Journal of Homœopathy, and New York State Homœopathic
Medical Society, 1905 ; “A Case of Mumps With the Simultaneous Occurrence of Acute Nephritis,” Hahnemannian Monthly, 1905.Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King