ALLEN, HERBERT COLEMAN – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

LLEN, HERBERT COLEMAN, Brooklyn, New York, was born
in Springfield, Massachusetts, July 4, 1875, son of Frank C. Allen and Elizabeth Worcester, his wife. His earlier education was acquired in Lockwood’s
Academy, Public School No. 11 of Brooklyn, the Brooklyn High School and the Pratt Institute. He took up the study of medicine in 1893 in the New York
Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital, and graduated there in 1896. He immediately began practice in Brooklyn and has since continued there. Besides
his regular professional work, Dr. Allen has been interne to the Cumberland Street Hospital ; lecturer on pathology in the New York Homœopathic
Medical College and Hospital ; visiting physician to the Prospect Heights Hospital, the Brooklyn Maternity Hospital, the Consumptives Home, the
Brooklyn Nursery and Infants Hospital, and pathologist to the Cumberland Street Hospital. He is a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy, the
New York State and the Kings County Homœopathic Medical societies, the Chiron Club, the Inter Nos Club, and the Crescent Athletic Club. Dr. Allen
married October 19, 1898, Eva F. Reynolds of Baltimore, Maryland.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King