Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
OUSSEAU,
LOUIS MAJORIQUE, M. D., of Pittsburgh, Pa., was born in the city of
Quebec, lower Canada, February 3d, 1820. He is the son of Louis Rousseau
of the same place. He received his early education in various academies,
preparatory to his entering the College at Nicolet, in the District of
Three Rivers, whence he graduated in 1837. In the year 1840, he removed
to the city of Bowdoin, Me., and having chosen the medical profession
for his future career, commenced his studies in 1841, matriculating at
the Medical College in Bowdoin, and entering the office of Dr. William
E. Payne, of Bath, Me., whom he had selected as his preceptor. At this
time Dr. Payne was changing his medical faith, and this led Mr. Rousseau
to look with some favor upon the system of Hahnemann, without, however,
adopting those theories at that time. In 1845, Dr. Rousseau formally
graduated at his Alma
Mater, and
returned to Canada, where, in the town of Cacouna, he practiced his
profession for six years. Thence he migrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia,
where he remained until 1865, still devoted to the doctrines of the old
school. In the last named year he removed to Pittsburgh, Pa., where he
commenced the study and practice of homœopathy under Dr. Coté, with
whom he has ever since been associated in co-partnership.He was married, in
1847, to Miss Clarice Talbot, of Canada ; seven children have
blessed this union.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave