Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
ERRELL,
S. A., M. D., of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was born in York county, Me.,
in the year 1828. Ten years alter, his family moved to Illinois, and, in
the winter of 1848, he commenced his preparatory course of study at
Illinois College, Jacksonville, and graduated in 1853 ; being then
in feeble health, having long suffered from dyspepsia, he engaged in the
study of medicine, and graduated at the Eclectic Medical School of
Cincinnati, but, becoming disgusted with the poor success so frequently
attending the practice of the old school, he abandoned all intention of
practicing, and was engaged in teaching, until the beginning of the war,
when he accepted a position in the United States Military Hospital at
Kansas City, Mo., which was conducted under homœopathic auspices. There
he remained two years, and had ample opportunity to study the new system
both theoretically and practically, in acute and in chronic cases.
Gratified and astonished at the marked success attending the new system,
he gladly adopted it with the intent of doing all in his power to
diffuse a knowledge of this the only scientific method of treating
disease, and of, according to his ability, assisting through its means
to mitigate human suffering. In the fall of 1863, he, therefore,
commenced practice under the new standard. In 1865, he moved to Council
Bluffs, where he was busily engaged in his profession, until 1870, when,
his health having failed in consequence of a partial sunstroke, he moved
to a farm near the city, and for a time was compelled to relinquish
practice ; which, however, having regained his health, he has now
resumed. In the fall of 1860, Dr. Merrell married Miss Mary E., daughter
of Jno. Granville Deering, Esq., of Independence, Mo.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave