ROCKWELL, JOHN ARNOLD, JR. – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

     OCKWELL,
JOHN ARNOLD, JR., Cambridge, Massachusetts, physician, instructor in materia medica, Boston University School of Medicine, was born May 4, 1872, in
Atlanta, Georgia, a descendant on both paternal and maternal sides of American colonial ancestors, among whom were the Henshaws, Dudleys, Dennys,
Perkins and Arnolds. Dr. Rockwell acquired his elementary education in public and private grammar schools of this country and Germany, and the Norwich
free academy, where he attended from 1889 to 1892. He entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1892 and graduated there S. B. in 1896. He
was educated in medicine in the Boston University School of Medicine, and received the degree of Ch. B. in 1808, M. D., 1899. For the next two years he
was resident surgeon to Boothby Surgical Hospital (private hospital), after which he entered active general practice.

In connection with professional work he is serving as first assistant physician to Massachusetts Homœopathic Hospital. He was
instructor in sanitary science, same institution, from 1900 until 1903, and since then has been instructor in materia medica, in the Boston University
School of Medicine. Dr. Rockwell is a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy, the Massachusetts Homœopathic Medical Society, the Boston
Surgical and Gynecological Society, and member and late associate secretary of the Boston Homœopathic Medical Society. He married, in 1900, Alice
Tufts.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King