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Henry
Clay ALLEN
(1836-1909, US)Dr. Henry C. Allen was
born [on February 10, 1836] in the village of Nilestown, near London,
Ontario, and was the son of Hugh and Martha Billings Allen. On his
paternal side, he was a descendant of that distinguished family of
Vermonters of the same name, Gen. Ira Allen and Ethan Allen, both famous
in the revolution. On his maternal side, the Billings’ were well known
among the Colonial families of Massachussetts Bay, and one of them, the
great-grand-father of Dr. Allen, owned the farm lands on which the present
city of Salem is built. After selling this property, the family moved to
Deerfield, in the Connecticut Valley and were there at the time the
Indians pillaged and ravaged that part of the country.He received his early
education in the common and grammar schools at London, where he later
taught school for a time. His medical education was acquired at the
Western Homeopathic College at Cleveland, Ohio (now the Cleveland
Homeopathic College), where he graduated in 1861, and later from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Shortly after graduation, he
entered the Union Army, serving as a surgeon under General Grant.After the war he was
offered and accepted the professorship on Anatomy in his Alma Mater at
Cleveland, and it was here that he first started practicing medicine.
Later he resigned and accepted the same chair in the Hahnemann Medical
College of Chicago. In 1868 he was offered the Chair of Surgery to succeed
Dr. Beebe, but was unable to accept. He then located in Brantford,
Ontario, where on December 24th, 1867, he married Selina Louise Goold,
who, with his two children, Franklin Lyman Allen and Helen Marian Allen
Aird, survives him.In 1875 he moved to
Detroit, Michigan, and in 1880, being appointed Professor of Materia
Medica at the University of Michigan, he moved to Ann Arbor, where he has
since resided.In 1892 he founded the
Hering Medical College and Hospital, of which he was Dean and Professor of
Materia Medica until his death, January 22nd, 1909.Dr. Allen was an
honorable senior of the American Institute of Homeopathy ; a number of the
International Hahnemannian Association ; of the Illinois Homeopathic
Medical Association ; of the Englewood Homeopathic Medical Society ; of
the Regular Homeopathic Medical Society of Chicago ; Honorary
Vice-President of the Cooper Club of London, England ; and Honorary Member
of the Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio State Medical Societies
and Honorary Member of the Homeopathic Society of Calcutta, India.He was owner and editor
of the Medical Advance for many years. Besides writing many
articles in this and other magazines he wrote numerous books, among which
are the following :Keynotes of Leading Remedies, lately placed on
the Council List of Books for use in the Canadian Medical
Colleges;The Homeopathic Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever
The Homeopathic Therapeutics of Fevers
Therapeutics of Tuberculous Affections
and recently completed the revision of Bśnninghausen’s
Slip Repertory, which he brought down to date and arranged for
rapid and practical work.This, his latest work, a
treatise on the Nosodes, was completed only a short time before his death,
and was the result of years of study, experience, and of proving and
confirming the symptomatology of many of the nosodes. His observations are
here published for the first time.
Franklin Lyman ALLEN
Note: This biography was written by the son
of Henry C., Franklin Lyman Allen. It was issued in the posthumous edited
“Materia medica of the nosodes with provings of the X-Ray”,
Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel, 1910.
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