HISTORY
OF HOMŒOPATHY
AND ITS
INSTITUTIONS IN AMERICA
By William
Harvey King, M. D., LL. D.
Presented by
Sylvain Cazalet
CHAPTER XII
HOMŒOPATHY IN CONNECTICUT.
By Thomas Lindsley
Bradford, M. D.The First Prescriber of Homœopathic Doses in
Connecticut – Early Planting and Subsequent Growth of Homœopathy in the
State – Societies and Hospitals – The Taylors, Father and Son-New
Milford First to have a Homœopathic Physician – The Tafts in Hartford –
John Schue – Introduction of the New System in the Counties – Pioneers,
Early Practitioners and Reminiscences – List of Old Practitioners.The doctrine of homœopathy
first gained a foothold in Connecticut in 1837, when Dr. Federal
Vanderburgh on a social visit to New Milford was called to
professionally attend the wife of an old school physician. This was the
beginning of the new system in the region under consideration, and the
immediate results of Vanderburgh’s treatment was the recovery of his
patient and the conversion of her husband to the teachings and practice
of Hahnemann, which previous to that time he had ridiculed. As evidence
of the subsequent growth of the homœopathic system in the state it may
be said that in 1857, twenty years after Vanderburgh’s missionary effort
there, forty-two physicians of that school were in practice. In 1870 the
number had increased to sixty-three, in 1875 to eighty-four, in 1882 to
one hundred and nineteen, and in 1904 to one hundred and fifty-three ;
and today there is no county and hardly a single town that has not at
least one homœopathic physician. And this is not all ; in less
than fifteen years after Vanderburgh’s first cure, the hardly more than
two score homœopathic practitioners took steps to organize their forces
for mutual protection and advantage and proceeded to form a state
medical society.
CONNECTICUT STATE HOMŒOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY.
The first society of homœopathic
physicians in Connecticut was formed in Hartford. November 17, 1851, and
was known as the Connecticut Institute of Homœopathy. At this meeting
seven pioneers of the new system were in attendance. They were Drs.
Jeremiah T. Dennison, of Fairfield ; W. W. Rodman, of
Waterbury ; W. C. Bell, of Middletown ; C. H. Skiff and E. T.
Foote, of New Haven ; and C. A. Taft and George S. Greene, of
Hartford. Dr. Dennison was elected president, Dr. Rodman vice-president,
Dr. Greene secretary, and Dr. Skiff treasurer. At the same time the
constitution and bylaws were presented and adopted. At a meeting held
June 10, 1864, a reorganization was effected, and the society was
incorporated under the name of Connecticut Homœopathic Medical Society.
A new constitution was adopted in 1880. Since 1891 the annual
transactions have been published, as also have several of the important
addresses by presidents. On November 1819, 1901, the society celebrated
its semi-centennial at Hartford. Addresses were made by distinguished
physicians of various states, and the occasion was otherwise enlivened
with social entertainments. In 1904 the membership of the society
numbered one hundred and five.The New Haven Homœopathic
Medical Society was organized February 24, 1887, at the residence of Dr.
C. B. Adams in the city of New Haven. The society is not incorporated.Grace Homœopathic
Medical Society of New Haven was incorporated June 21, 1889, and at once
became an active organization in promoting the interests of the
homœopathic profession in Connecticut.Grace Homœopathic
Hospital at Hartford, the first institution of its kind in the state,
originated in a movement started in 1888 and consummated in the formal
opening which took place in September, 1892. The hospital association
was incorporated by the legislature in 1888, and the state appropriated
$20,000 for the benefit of the hospital on condition that a like sum be
raised by subscription. This was accomplished, and with the fund thus
created the trustees purchased the old Mallory property on West Chapel
street. The building was arranged for its new occupancy, and was
furnished through the agency of the women’s hospital board, the society
of the King’s Sons and Daughters and the Ladies’ Aid Society. The
hospital property is valued at $100,000. The institution is supported by
state aid, pay patients and voluntary contributions. The training school
for nurses was established in 1895.As has been stated, the
first homœopathic prescription in Connecticut was made by Dr. Federal
Vanderburgh. In 1837 Dr. George Taylor’s wife was threatened with
consumption, and her husband and other physicians had prescribed
remedies without relief. About that time Vanderburgh, an old friend of
Dr. Taylor’s, visited New Milford, and learning of the sickness of Mrs.
Taylor, proposed prescribing homœopathically for her. Dr. Taylor, an
allopath, at last consented to this, and contrary to his expectation,
his wife improved and eventually was restored to health. Dr. Taylor then
began to investigate homœopathy and to test it until about 1839 or
1840, when he became a convert to its practice. He was born in New
Milford in 1802, and graduated from the medical department of Yale.
College in 1824, at once beginning practice in his native town. When his
allopathic friends realized that he was practicing the new medical
system, he was dismissed from the medical society and further
consultations with him were refused. He was the first homœopathic
physician in Connecticut, and practiced for many years in New Milford.Charles Taylor, the son
of George Taylor, graduated at Geneva Medical College and in 1852
practiced with his father at New Milford. He represented his town in the
general assembly four years and held other offices. He died July 4,
1890.Hartford was the second
town in Connecticut in which homœopathy was introduced in 1842 Dr.
Gustavus M. Taft located there. He was born in Dedham, Mass., December
7, 1820, read medicine with Dr. Josiah Flagg of Boston, and later with
Drs. Hull and Gray of New York. He graduated at the University of New
York in 1842, and at once began to practice in Hartford. His health
failed and he went south, locating in New Orleans in November, 1845 ;
He died of yellow fever August 10, 1847, aged twenty-seven years.Dr. Cincinnatus A.
Taft, brother of Gustavus M. Taft, graduated from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1846, and settled in Hartford the
same year. He had studied with his brothers and was the third homœopathic
physician to locate in Hartford and the seventh in the state. He became
one of the leading physicians of Connecticut. He died June 26, 1884.Dr. John Schue, the
next of the Hartford pioneers, was a native of Germany, born in 1815,
and came to New York in 1839. He entered the office of Drs. Hull and
Gray to learn English and study homœopathy. He graduated at the College
of Physicians and Surgeons in 1842, practiced in New York until 1844,
then went to Hartford and formed a partnership with Dr. Gustavus M.
Taft. He remained there in practice until his death, September 25, 1856.
He joined the institute in 1846. Dr. Schue lost his wife in 1855, which
so depressed him that he himself died soon afterward.Dr. Gardner S. Browne
commenced to practice in Hartford about 1867, and died there December
29, 1876. He was a graduate of the University of New York. Dr. George
Starr Green graduated at the University of New York in 1848. He became
partner with Dr. A. Cook Hull in Brooklyn, where he began the practice
of homœopathy in 1849. He removed to Hartford, January 1, 1851. Dr.
Harvey Cole came from Pittsfield, Mass., and located in Hartford in
1868. Dr. James D. Johnson opened an office in Hartford in 1869. He was
a graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Drs. Irving M. Lyon and
S. Giles Tucker were in practice there in 1870. Dr. M. P. Hayward, a
graduate of the Homœopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, also
practiced in Hartford for a short time, going thence to Ohio. In 1856
Dr. H. T. Brownell and Russell Caulkins were located in Hartford. In
1857, there were six homœopathic physicians in the city ; in 1870,
seven ; in 1882, eleven, and in 1904, nineteen.Dr. Edward Wilberforce
Kellogg was born at Avon, Conn., November 29, 1840, and at the age of
twelve years went to Philadelphia to attend school. He returned home in,
a few years and entered the high school at Collinsville, from which he
graduated. At this time he had no thought of medicine, but was devoting
his attention to musical study. Early during the war of 1861-65, he
enlisted, and while awaiting orders near New London, he was offered a
position as hospital steward at Fort Trumbull. Dr. Isaac G. Porter was
surgeon at this hospital and young Kellogg was associated with him for
three years as assistant and pupil. He was honorably discharged in
November, 1865, and then entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, but
after a year matriculated at the New York Homœopathic Medical College,
where he graduated in 1867. He located at Danbury, remained there one
year and then went to Southington, where he practiced until 1871. In
May, 1871, he removed to Hartford. On March 7, 1867, he married Hilah A.
Dart of New London. In 1857 there were in Hartford, Drs. Gardner S.
Browne, F. Brownell, H. T. Brownell, Russell Caulkins, George S. Green
and Cincinnatus A. Taft.The pioneer homœopath
in New Haven and the fourth physician of that school in the state, was
Dr. Charles H. Skiff, who was born at Spencertown, Columbia county, N.
Y., May 17, 1808, and graduated at the Berkshire Medical School,
September 5, 1832. He married Rachel McKinstry of Livingston, N. Y.,
October 17, 1833. He began the practice of homœopathy in Spencertown in
1840, and removed to Albany in 1842. He went to New Haven in 1843 and
remained there until his death, December 11, 1875.Dr. Daniel W. Northrup
was the fourth homœopath in the state, having begun practice at
Sherman, Fairfield county, in 1843. Dr. Daniel Holt, another pioneer in
New Haven, was born at Hampton, July 2, 1810. He was educated at Ashford
and Amherst academies and in 1831 entered the scientific department of
Yale. Later on he studied medicine with Dr. Hiram Holt of Pomfret, and
graduated from the Yale Medical School in 1835. He located at
Glastonbury, where he acquired an extensive practice. He received a
prize from the Connecticut Medical Society for an essay on scarlatina,
and was author of several noteworthy papers. In 1845 he was appointed to
prepare a paper for the state medical society. Homœopathy soon
attracted his attention and he employed the opportunity to demonstrate
its absurdity. After careful study, and experimenting with its remedies,
he became convinced of its truth, and then published his essay
“Views of Homœopathy or Reasons for Examining and Admitting it as
a Principle in Medicine.” This was published in New Haven in 1845.
During this year he went to New Haven and studied homœopathy with Dr.
Skiff, and afterward practiced it, making frequent trips to New York to
consult with Gray, Hull, Vanderburgh, Joslin, Wells and others. Because
of his change in faith he was expelled from the New Haven Medical
Association, but afterward three of his prosecutors adopted homœopathy.
In 1845 Dr. Holt went to Lowell, Mass.Dr. Elial Todd Foote
was born in Greenfield, Mass., in May, 1796. He studied medicine with
Dr. Samuel Guthrie of Sherburne, N. Y., and was licensed by the Chenango
County Medical Society in 1815. He went to Chautauqua county, locating
in what was afterward Jamestown, but which then had no name. In June,
1818, he was chairman of a meeting of physicians of the county called to
organize the Chautauqua County Medical Society, and was the first
president of that body. In 1827 he became a permanent member of the New
York Medical Society. Before he left New York Dr. Foote had become
interested in homœopathy as practiced by Dr. Alfred W. Gray, brother of
Dr. John F. Gray, and he became a homœopath in 1840. It is not known
just when he located in New Haven. He became a member of the American
Institute of Homœopathy in 1850. When the Connecticut Homœopathic
Medical Society was reorganized in 1864 Dr. Foote delivered the
inaugural address, which was largely historical regarding homœopathy in
the state. He died at New Haven November 17, 1877.Charles Cheney Foote,
son of Dr. Elial Foote, was born in Jamestown, N. Y., September 6, 1825,
graduated at Union College in 1849, read medicine with his father, and
in 1850 attended medical lectures at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of New York. He also attended lectures at Jefferson Medical
College of Philadelphia, graduating there in 1851. He began to practice
in New Haven, and for two years was associated with his father. He died
November 9, 1871.Dr. Paul C. Skiff was
in practice in New Haven in 1870. He was a graduate of Yale. Dr. Charles
W. Skiff, his son, graduated from the New York Homœopathic Medical
College in 1861, practiced with his father in Brooklyn, and returned
with him to New Haven in 1862. He remained but a short time in practice.
In 1861 Dr. W. W. Rodman located in New Haven. In 1857 there were but
four homœopaths in that city ; in 1870, six ; in 1878,
sixteen.Dr. Oscar Sceitz began
the practice of homœopathy in New London in 1845. Dr. Nathaniel Otis
Harris practiced there from 1854 to 1857, when he went to East Haddam.
He graduated at the New York University Medical College in 1854 and went
at once to New London, remaining until 1857, when he located in East
Haddam. He studied homœopathy with Dr. J. T. Evans. In 1847 Dr :
Lucien H. Morton opened an office at Bridgeport and was the homœopathic
pioneer in Fairfield county. He was a graduate of Berkshire Medical
College. Dr. Charles Taylor practiced in Bridgeport for one year and
went to New Milford.In 1859 Dr. Charles E.
Sanford went to Bridgeport from Bristol. He was born in North Haven, May
31, 1830, and graduated from Yale Medical School in 1853. He studied
medicine with his brother-in-law, Dr. G. A. Moody of Plainville. After
graduation he returned to Plainville, entering into partnership with his
preceptor and remained there two years. In 1855 he married Anna F. Neale
and about that time entered mercantile pursuits in New York, but soon
returned to his profession. During his stay in New York Dr. Sanford
became acquainted with homœopathy and was impelled while living with an
old friend in Brooklyn to investigate, resulting in his complete
conversion to its principles. In 1870 Dr. Sanford wrote : “My
present address is Bridgeport, where I have resided since 1859. Previous
to that time I practiced medicine in Plainville and Bristol. I began to
practice homœopathy in 1858.”Dr. James H. Osborne
was located at Bridgeport in 1870. He graduated from the New York Homœopathic
College in 1867. Dr. Oliver Brewster Taylor graduated at Harvard Medical
School in 1842, and began the practice of homœopathy in 1848 at Dana,
Mass. In 1849 he went to Manchester, where for many years he was the
only homœopathic physician.Dr. William Campbell
Bell was an early practitioner at Middletown. He was born in Chester,
Mass., September 6, 1806, and attended school at Chester and Westfield
academies. He studied medicine in Chester under Drs. Horace Ballard and
T. K. DeWolf, and afterward with Dr. T. Childs at Pittsfield. He
attended medical lectures at Woodstock, Vt., and at Pittsfield, Mass.,
graduating from the Berkshire Medical College in 1833. He began
allopathic practice at Austerlitz, N. Y., and after ten years adopted
the homœopathic system. In 1850 he located at Housatonic, Mass., where
he remained six years, then he removed to Middletown, where he remained
for over forty years. In 1833 he married Charlotte Maria Boise, of
Chester. Dr. Bell retired from practice in the spring of 1891 and went
to live at Blandford, Mass., where he died October 12, 1894. Drs. G. W.
Burroughs and G. B. Smith practiced in Middletown for a time. Dr. Aaron
S. Osborne and Julius Gnodinger were practicing in Middletown in 1878.Dr. George Pitkin
Cooley was practicing homœopathy in Bristol as early as 1854. He was
born in Manchester, November 28, 1830, the son of Dr. William Cooley of
Hartford county. In 1850 he became a student of Dr. Gustavus A. Taft of
Hartford, attended lectures at the New York Homœopathic Medical
College, and at the Homœopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania during
the session of 1853-54. He received a special degree from that college
in 1862. In 1854 he entered into practice at Bristol, but after four
years removed to New Britain, where he located permanently. In April,
1865, he married Lucy A. Peck of New York.Dr. James H. Austin
practiced homœopathy in Bristol as early as 1850. He was born in
Suffield, Conn., in 1824, began the study of medicine when about twenty
years old, and graduated at the Berkshire Medical College in 1847. He
located at Bristol in 1848, and for ten years was faithful to the
medical system in which he was educated. He is said to have embraced
homœopathy about 1858. He died March 27, 1873, In 1870 Dr. Edward P.
Woodward was in practice at Bristol.Dr. Asa W. Brown
located at Mystic Bridge, New London county, in 1875. He was born in
Sterling, Windham county, Conn., September 28, 1813, studied at Brooklyn
Academy, graduated at the Western College of Homœopathic Medicine in
1853, practiced two years at Centreville, R. I. and then settled at
Mystic Bridge, where he remained until 1873, when he removed to
Providence, R. I.Rev. Moses Bill
introduced homœopathy in Norwalk, Fairfield county, in 1855. In 1870
Dr. Mosman was the only homœopath in Norwalk, and in 1877, Dexter
Hitchcock and Nathan A. Mosman were practicing there. In 1882, A. H.
Baldwin, G. S. Comstock and Dexter Hitchcock were practicing in that
city. Dr. Mosman graduated in medicine in New York in 1861, and soon
afterward located at Norwalk. In 1879 he went to New York city. Dr.
Dexter Hitchcock graduated from the New York Homœopathic Medical
College in 1873, settling soon afterward in Norwalk. He joined the
institute in 1873. He has for many years been referred to as “Dr.
Hitchcock of Norwalk.”Dr. William E. Bulkeley
was for many, years associated with the history of homœopathy in
Danbury. He was born in Colchester, Conn., October 9, 1796. At the age
of eighteen he went to West Virginia, taught school, and studied
medicine with a prominent physician of that region. Having earned enough
money to pay his way he attended medical lectures at Yale College. Dr.
Bulkeley practiced as an allopath four years in Berkshire county, Mass.,
and twenty years in Hillsdale, Columbia, county, before he located in
Danbury, and about 1853 began the practice of homœopathy. He joined the
American Institute of Homœopathy in 1859. He remained in Danbury until
his death, June 14, 1870. In 1870 his son, Dr. J. C. Bulkeley, was
associated in practice with him.In 1857, Dr. R. W.
Rockwell was practicing in Danbury. In 1875 there were in practice in
that city, Drs. William Bulkeley, Rev. D. M. Hodge and, Sophia
Penfield ; in 1882, Drs. Bulkeley, S. M. Griffin, Sophia Penfield
and O. L. Jenkins. Dr. Rockwell went to Danbury in 1856, and afterward
removed to Brooklyn.Dr. Henry E. Stone, a
graduate of Castleton Medical College in 1847, removed from Otego, N.
Y., to Fair Haven, New Haven county, in 1857. He was born in Danbury,
July 20, 1820, and in 1840 his family went to Otego, N. Y. In Otego, Dr.
Solomon Green, a leading physician of the place, became interested in
young Stone and induced him to study medicine. Having graduated at
Castleton, he commenced practice at Otego with his preceptor. His
attention was directed to homœopathy by Dr. I. S. Huett, of Milwaukee,
and for two or three years he investigated and finally embraced its
methods. Remaining in Otego until the spring of 1876, he sold his
practice to Dr. Warren and located in. Fair Haven, Conn., where he
afterward resided, and where he lied January 27, 1886. Dr. Stone married
Amanda Cunningham of Otego, September 3, 1851.Dr. Lester Keep had
been practicing homœopathy in Fair Haven prior to 1877. He was born in
Lee, Mass, September 6, 1797, was educated there, and fitted for college
by Rev. Alvan Hyde. In the fall of 1821 he entered Williams College, but
soon afterward financial troubles made it necessary for him to earn his
way, until in his junior year when certain students, he among them, were
caught at “college pranks,” and were suspended for three
weeks. He then abandoned his college course and entered the office of
Drs. Child and Batchelder, of Pittsfield, and became a member of the
Berkshire, Medical Institution, a branch of Williams College, then in
its second year. There he remained three years, supporting himself by
services to the college and assisting his preceptors who were of the
faculty. While awaiting the means to graduate he received an offer of
assistance from Dr. Luther Ticknor, of Salisbury, in return for services
that he could render in practice. Dr. John Delamater being called to the
chairs of anatomy and surgery in the Medical College at Fairfield. N.
Y., induced Keep to go with him as demonstrator and prosector. At this
school he graduated in 1828. For a year afterward he associated with Dr.
Jefferson Church, of Springfield, Mass., but left him to attend Dr.
Tully’s lectures on materia medica and therapeutics at the Yale Medical
School. Dr. Keep settled in Fair Haven, and while his practice was
growing he opened a pharmacy and maintained it in connection with the
village postoffice for several years. Business matters occasionally
called him to New York, and on one of his visits there met an old
friend, Dr. Ticknor, who had become a homœopath, and through whose
ministrations Keep himself was induced to abandon the old school of
practice for that founded by Hahnemann. This was in 1839, at which time
Dr. Keep was a member of the New Haven County Medical Society, the New
Haven City Association of Physicians, and a fellow of the Connecticut
State Medical Society. He sold his drug store, resigned from the
societies, and announced himself a homœopath. He joined the American
Institute of Homœopathy in 1848. He continued to practice in Fair Haven
until 1860, when he moved to Brooklyn. In 1873 he suffered an attack of
apoplectic paralysis, and though he largely recovered from the stroke,
he did not again return to active practice. He died August 20, 1882.
Drs. J. Lester Keep and S. H. Keep are sons of Dr. Lester Keep’s second
marriage.Dr. G. Herrick Wilson,
a graduate of the Berkshire Medical College in 1849 after practicing in
North Adams and Conway, Mass., located in West Meriden, Conn., in 1857.
In 1869, Dr. E. C. Newport, a graduate in 1868 of the New York Homœopathic
Medical College, went from Holyoke, Mass., to West Meriden. About the
same time, Dr. L. E. Phelps, from Michigan, opened an office there. In
1882 Drs. C. J. Mansfield, E. A. Wilson and G. H. Wilson were in
Meriden, and in 1857 Dr. W. N. Dunham was located there.Dr. Henry Isham
introduced homœopathy into New Britain before 1857. He died in 1868,
and in the next year Dr. Charles Vishno, a graduate in 1866 of the New
York Homœopathic Medical College, located there, but afterward went to
Hartford. In 1875, Drs. G. P. Cooley, Leander P. Jones, L. M. Smith and
J. S. Stone were located in New Britain. In 1882, Drs. Cooley, Goodrich,
Seymour and Stone were practicing there.Dr. William Woodbridge
Rodman introduced homœopathy into Waterbury. He was born in Stonington,
Conn., in April, 1817, graduated at Yale in 1838, and entering Jefferson
Medical College of Philadelphia received his degree there in 1844. In
November of that year he began practice in Waterbury, but in 1848 became
convinced of the truth of homœopathy by careful study acid practical
use of its remedies, and adopted it in his practice. He was in
consequence expelled from the Connecticut Medical Society. In 1861 he
removed to New Haven.Dr. Elam Clark Knight
graduated from the Berkshire Medical College in 1845, and located at
Slatersville, R. I. His conversion to homœopathy and introduction to
Waterbury are best told in his own words (1870) : “My
attention was called to homœopathic practice during the last year of my
medical studies by coming in contact with two homœopathic students in
the same class with myself. But I gave no serious attention to the
subject till 1852. About this time the old school medical journals were
constantly ridiculing the new system of practice. I thought to myself if
there was no better arguments against homœopathy than mean ridicule,
and silly at that, there must be something in it, and I would examine
for myself. Accordingly I applied to Dr. Amory Gale, then of Woonsocket,
R. I., and asked his advice and assistance, which he readily gave by
lending me books and otherwise. After about a year of study and
experimental practice, I removed to Middleborough, Mass., early in 1853.
There I was the first one to locate and successfully introduce
homœopathy. There I found a few families who had been treated
homœopathically by Dr. J. T. Harris, of East Bridgewater, and Dr.
Barrows, of Taunton, Mass. They formed a nucleus around which I soon
built up a good practice.“In 1857 having a
little more of the western fever than was for my good, I moved to
Quincy, Ill., but not finding everything to my satisfaction, returned to
New England after about two years and a half. In 1860 Dr. W. W. Rodman
left Waterbury for New Haven, and the June following I took his place
here, where I still remain. I was alone here till after the severe
injuries I received in November, 1865. In 1867 Dr. Tripp came here and
remained a little less than a year. He was followed by Dr. H. R. Brown,
who remained something over two years. At the present time homœopathy
is represented by myself and Dr. Charles Rodman.” Dr. Knight was a
member of the old Massachusetts Fraternity. He joined the American
Institute of Homœopathy in 1867. He died suddenly at Woodbury, March
21, 1888.Dr. Henry R. Brown, a
graduate in 1867 of the New York Homœopathic Medical College, located
first at Waterbury, but soon went to Leominster, Mass. Dr. Charles
Shepard Rodman, a son of Dr. W. W. Rodman, located at Waterbury in 1869.
He was a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was
still there in 1878, but in 1882 there were only Drs. E. O. Gregory and
George P. Swift practicing homœopathy in that city. Southington,
Hartford county, was represented in homœopathy by Dr. Lucy A. Hudson as
early as 1856. In 1866 Dr. Timothy D. Wadsworth, a graduate in 1866 of
the New York Homœopathic Medical College, located there, removing to
St. Louis. Mo., in 1868. He was succeeded by Dr. Edward W. Kellogg. Dr.
Noah Byington was practicing there in 1870. In 1882 Dr. James H. Osborne
and C. H. Peterson were the only homœopathy in that city.In 1856 Drs. S. M.
Fletcher and A. Frank were in practice at Norwich, New London county.
Subsequently Dr. Fletcher went to Westerly, R. I., and Dr. Frank to
Milton, Vt. Dr. Jerome Harris practiced at Norwich and went from there
to Woonsocket. In 1865 Dr. Anna Manning graduated at the New York
Medical College for Women, and located at Norwich for a short time. In
1867 Dr. Herbert Martin Bishop, a graduate of Yale, went to Norwich. He
was born in New London, January 15, 1844, studied with Dr. O. Sites and
graduated at Yale Medical School in 1865. He was commissioned assistant
surgeon of the First Connecticut cavalry, and was in service through the
last campaign of the war. Returning, he determined to study homœopathy,
and after attending lectures at the New York Homœopathic Medical
College, graduated in 1867. In March of that year he settled at Norwich.
In January, 1869, he married Ella E. Spalding. He joined the American
Institute of Homœopathy in 1869. In 1875 there were in practice there
Drs. Herbert Martin Bishop, Jonathan E. Linnell and Samuel Gibbs Tucker ;
in 1882, Drs. Bishop, Edward H. and Jonathan E. Linnell, John Arnold
Rockwell and C. E. Stark.Dr. Albert W. Phillips
located in Birmingham in 1861, the year in which he graduated from
Hahnemann College of Chicago. He was a native of New York. He took the
place of Dr. Horace Bowen, who formerly practiced in Birmingham.Dr. Charles W. Ensign,
a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1844, located
the same year at Tariffville. He was born in West Hartland. He was
highly esteemed among the allopathic fraternity, being a member of its
societies until 1855, when he became a homœopath and was then expelled
for “quackery.” He lived in Tariffville until his death. At
Stratford Dr. Geliwitz practiced for a time, then went to New York. In
1857 Drs. Chauncey Ayres and J. P. Mackins were in practice at Stamford.
In 1875 Drs. Ayres, George F. Foote and John F. Griffin were there ;
in 1882, Drs. Ayres, Foote, Phillips and C. E. and E. E. Rowell. Dr.
Foote for fifteen years conducted a private asylum for the insane and
for victims of the opium habit.In 1857 Dr. R. B. Bruce
was located at Birmingham ; Dr. S. S. Clark at Plainville ;
Dr. Jermiah T. Denison at Fairfield ; Dr. C. Faill at
Litchfield ; Dr. C. Gaylor at New Milford ; Dr. J. E. Lucas at
Thompsonville ; Dr. C. Northrup at Sherman ; Dr. T. Roberts at
New Canaan ; Dr. William H. Sage at Unionville ; and Dr. Vail
at Litchfield.The first homœopathic
pharmacy in the state was called the Good Samaritan drug store and
pharmacy. It was opened in Hartford by Dr. Blake, who sold to Dr.
Preston, and he in turn to Dr. George Curtis. On September 5, 1881, Dr.
Curtis sold to William C. Messenger, who conducted the store for three
years. In 1857 Dr. Gardner S. Browne conducted a pharmacy in Hartford.
Homœopathic physicians in Connecticut previous to
1860. The date
preceding the name indicates the year the physician began the practice
of homœopathy. The character * indicates that the practitioner
originally was of some other school ; the character x indicates
that the physician practiced medicine before the date given.1857 Ayres, C. x Stamford
1850 Austin, James H. * Bristol
1843 Bell, William C. * Middletown
1857 Bulkeley, J. C. x Danbury
1837 Bulkeley, W. E. * Danbury
Burroughs, G. W. Middletown
1857 Bruce, R. B. x North Bennington
1857 Browne, Gardner S. x Hartford
1856 Brownell, H. T. x Hartford
1857 Brownell, F. x Hartford
1853 Brown, Asa W. Mystic Bridge
. . . . Bowen, Horace Birmingham
1856 Caulkins, Russell x Hartford
1850 Cole, Harvey Hartford
1854 Cooley, George P. Bristol
1857 Clark, S. S. x Plainville
1850 Denison, J. T. * Fairfield
1854 Dunbar, William N. Meriden
1857 Erving, J. F. x Hitchcockville
1855 Ensign, Charles W. * Tarriffville
1857 Faill, C. x Litchfield
1856 Fletcher, Samuel M. Norwich
1851 Foote, Charles C. New Haven
1840 Foote, Elial Todd * New Haven
1857 Frank, A. x Norwich
1857 Gaylor, G. x New Milford
1857 Geliwitz, G. x Stratford
. . . . Gnodinger, Julius
1853 Green, George S. * Hartford
. . . . Griffin, S. M.
1849 Harris, Jerome * Norwich
1854 Harris, Nathaniel O. East Haddam.
1857 Hayward, Milton P. Hartford
1855 Hill, Moses (Rev.) Norwalk
1845 Holt, Daniel * New Haven
1857 Hudson, Lucy A. x Southington
1857 Isham, Henry x New Britain
. . . . Jenkins, O. L.
1839 Keep, Lester * Fair Haven
1852 Knight, Elam C. * Waterbury
1857 Lucas, J. E. x Thompsonville
1853 Linnell, Jonathan E. * Norwich
1865 Lyon, Irving W. * Hartford
1857 Mackins, J. P. x Stamford
1857 Northrop, C. x Sherman
1842 Northrop, Daniel W. Sherman
1844 Norton Lucian H. Bridgeport
1846 Osgood, David *
1857 Pratt, A. x Chester
1857 Roberts, T. x New Canaan
1857 Rockwell, R. W. x Danbury
1848 Rodman, William W. * Waterbury
1856 Sage, W. H. x Unionville
1845 Sceitz, Oscar new London
1858 Sanford, Charles E. * Bridgeport
1841 Skiff, Charles H. New Haven
1842 Schue, John Hartford
1850 Stone, Henry E. * Fair Haven
1846 Taft, Cincinnatus A. Hartford
1842 Taft, Gustavus M. Hartford
1837 Taylor, George * New Milford
1848 Taylor, Oliver B. * Manchester
1856 Vail, Dr. x Litchfield
1856 Wilson, Grove H. West Meriden