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British Homeopathy during two centuries by Peter Morrell

by Peter Morrell

ABSTRACT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION

PART 1
ORIGINS HOMEOPATHY AND HAHNEMANN

1. Origins
2. History and Development
3. Evidence for the Effectiveness of Homeopathy
4. Spread of homeopathy

Basic
Concepts
1. Provings
2. Potentisation and Dosage
3. Law of Similars
4a. Nosodes
4b. BachÆs Bowel Nosodes

5. The Concept of Disease
6. Vital Force
7. HeringÆs Law
8. Miasms and Chronic Disease
9. Materialist or Low Potency School
10. Metaphysical School
11. Critique of Allopathy

Melanie Hahnemann
MelanieÆs Trial
Origin of HahnemannÆs Ideas
Summary
Glossary of Terms

PART 2
EARLY BRITISH HOMEOPATHY

Early British Homeopathy
Dr. Quin and Colleagues
Politics and Class
BHS and Faculty
William Leaf
Dr. Paul Curie
Rev. Thomas Everest

PART 3 BRITISH HOMEOPATHY 1850-70

[Reform Movements Aristocrats and
Dispensaries]
The 1858 Medical Act
Social Reform
Medical Reform
Religious Reforms
Political Reforms
Friction and Reactions
Some Medical Reformers
The Epps Family
Spencer T Hall
Dr. George Dunn
Discussion
Aristocratic Patronage of Homeopathy
Aristocrats
The Earls of Shrewsbury
Royalty and Homeopathy
Examples of Aristocratic Patronage of Homeopathy
Dispensaries
A Short History of British Dispensaries
Numerical Data
Homeopathic Dispensaries
Discussion

PART 4
LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH HOMEOPATHY

Late nineteenth century British
homeopathy
Cooper Club
James Compton Burnett
Rademacher and Schuessler
BurnettÆs Use of Potency
Robert Thomas Cooper
CooperÆs Arborivital Medicine
CooperÆs Use of Potency
Dr. Thomas Skinner
Prof. Sir James Y Simpson
Dr. Edward Wm. Berridge
John Henry Clarke
ClarkeÆs Use of Potency
The Central Importance of Dr. Clarke
Some Students of Dr. Clarke
Canon Roland Upcher
Discussion
BHA and MSM
J Ellis Barker
Discussion
1900-30

PART 5 KENT’S INFLUENCE

The High Potency Habit
First Wave: Skinner and Berridge
Second Wave: Gibson Miller
Third Wave: Tyler
Kentianism
The Swedenborgian Influence
KentÆs Morality
KentÆs Influence on UK Homeopathy
KentÆs Potencies
KentÆs Impact On Progress
Discussion

PART 6 UK HOMEOPATHY SINCE 1930

Discussion 1900-30
After 1930
Lay Practitioners of the Period
Ephraim Connor
Dr. Otto Leeser
Edward W Cotter
Eric Powell
Others homeopaths
Dr. F Parker Wood
N G Puddephatt
Speights
Radionic Homeopaths
Malcolm Rae
V D Wethered
D V Tansley
Roy Ogden
E D W Tomkins
H. E. A. L.
Others
Sixties and Seventies
Da Monte and Maughan
John Da Monte
Thomas Maughan

PART 7 CURRENT ISSUES

Society of Homeopaths
Soc. Hom. Register
UK Colleges
Professionalisation
The Professionalisation Process
Professionalisation in Medicine
Professionalisation in Alternative
Medicine
Professionalisation Within Homeopathy
Background
UKHMA & ICM Registers
Lay Problems Past and Present
Conclusions
Professionalisation Within the Current Scene
Discussion

PART 8 CONCLUSIONS

CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY

A research
thesis submitted to Staffordshire University
for the degree of Master of Philosophy
JUNE 1999

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