Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
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