THOMAS, WILLIAM WAY – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

HOMAS, WILLIAM WAY, M. D., of Wilmington, Del., was born in Delaware. He received his literary education
in Wilmington. Left an orphan at an early age, he passed his youth at the residence of his grandfather, judge Way, in the suburbs of the city. On
attaining his majority, he entered into mercantile pursuits, and during the time thus engaged, he was for years a sufferer from asthma to such a degree
as to almost incapacitate him for any active business, and several times his life was despaired of. After years of treatment after the manner of the
allopathic and Thompsonian practice, he as a last resort had recourse to homœopathy, which, in the course of six to nine months, proved so beneficial,
as to awaken in him a determination to become a disciple of Hahnemann. In accordance with this desire, he became a student of the distinguished Dr. T.
C. Gonwisch, the pioneer of homœopathic practice in Wilmington, Del. After a thorough course of instruction, he matriculated at the Jefferson College
of Philadelphia, and graduated in the Western Homœopathic Medical College of Cleveland, O., in 1860. For many years he has been a patient practitioner
of the healing art, and a genuine homœopathist ; and by his candor and uniform kindness of manner to his patients, as well as by his faithful
attention, he has won the confidence and the respect of the community in which he lives. He is a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy.

Source : Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons By
Egbert Cleave