PEASE, GILES – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons By E. Cleave

EASE,
GILES, M. D., of Rockville, was born in Somers, Conn., December 2d,
1805. He was educated primarily for the Gospel ministry ; entered
on its public duties in February, 1828, and was engaged in evangelistic
labors incessantly for five years. He accepted a call to the pastorate
of a Congregational Church in Lowell, Mass., in 1833. He had an attack
of severe illness in 1836, culminating in throat disease and nervous
prostration. Having given the old school remedies a faithful trial,
without much apparent benefit, he was persuaded to try the homœopathic
treatment. The immediate beneficial results constrained him to a careful
and thorough study of the new science, anti to enter on its practice. He
first opened an office for homœopathic practice in Cambridge, Mass., in
1840. After a busy and successful practice of two years, his health
having become confirmed, he accepted a call to Sandwich, Mass., in 1842,
where he continued fourteen years in the discharge of the duties of the
ministry, superadded to those of an extensive homœopathic practice.
From Sandwich he removed to Boston in 1856, continuing in the practice
of homœopathy without pastoral charge, though not abandoning the
functions of the ministry.

     In 1871, constrained by
solicitations of family friends, he removed to Rockville, Colin.,
leaving an excellent practice in the city with his son, G. M. Pease, M.
D. He has always been singularly successful in the treatment of all
pulmonary diseases and the diseases of children. With measles,
whooping-cough, croup, diphtheria, pleurisy, lung, bilious, rheumatic
and puerperal fevers, diarrhœa, cholera and cholera-morbus he has never
lost a patient. Of patients in infancy and childhood he has lost four
only. Being among the pioneers of homœopathy in New England, he was
often subjected to very cool treatment from sundry brethren of the
allopathic school, though treated courteously by not a few.

     In October, 1834, while
in Lowell, Mass., he was assailed by the

first
New England pro-slavery mob,
in connection with the distinguished philanthropist, the honorable and
reverend George Thompson of England, whom he was first, in this country,
to welcome to the hospitalities of his home and to his pulpit, to
lecture on American slavery.

     Dr. Pease has been a
minister of the Gospel for more than forty-five years, and a
practitioner of the Hahnemann school for more than thirty-two years.
During his long career of active service in both the clerical and
medical professions, he has delivered numerous lectures on slavery and
temperance ; has written much for the newspaper and periodical
press ; published a “Congregational Church Manual ;”
a treatise on the “Egyptian and American Systems of Servitude, as
compared with the Mosaic System of Service and Labor,” and brief
histories of a score and a half of churches. He enjoys excellent
health ; uses no tobacco, tea or coffee ; can read the finest
print without glasses, and continues both to preach and to heal.

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