Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
RIGHT,
A. K., of Buffalo, N. Y., was born in Orange county, N. Y., October
19th, 1829. After graduating at the New York State Normal School, in
1848, he taught in the Albany Male Academy, also in the public schools
of Elmira, N. Y., until the spring of 1852. He then commenced the study
of medicine in the office of I. H. Warner, M. D., an eminent
practitioner of Buffalo, and the pioneer of homœopathy in that city. He
also attended a course of lectures in the Buffalo Medical College. His
health failing in 1854, he was ordered to sea by Dr. Warner ; his
professional study was thus subjected to unavoidable interruption.In April of 1854, he
sailed for China, and within a month after reaching his destination he
obtained the post of Surgeon on one of H. B. M.’s mail steamships of the
Peninsular and Oriental Company. Cruising along the coast of India and
China, frequently lying a long time in port, he enjoyed opportunities of
studying both the diseases and natural history peculiar to those
countries, and every possible means by which he could increase his
knowledge was embraced.Early in the summer of
1856, he left China for Europe. At Paris he resumed his medical studies,
attending the clinics of Tessier, Teste, and other well known homœopathists.
Before leaving Paris he obtained certificates of study from Paul Dubois,
Trousseau, Jobert and Chassaignac. Having visited the principal
hospitals of London and the provinces, he returned to the United States
in 1857. His observations and experience in the East and in Europe
firmly established his convictions respecting the efficacy of
homœopathy and faith in its being the true practice. Having determined
to adopt the practice of the new school, he graduated from the Western
Homœopathic College of Cleveland, O., and removed to Elmira, N. Y.,
where he continued until 1859, when he established himself in Buffalo,
and became associated with Drs. Kenyon and Warner. This partnership
continued until 1860, when the death of Dr. Warner occurred, and the
failing health of Dr. Kenyon obliged him to retire. He was thus left in
the entire charge of a large practice.He is a member of the
American Institute of Homœopathy, also one of the Attending Physicians
of the Ingleside Home, and Surgeon of the Buffalo Homœopathic Hospital.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave