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PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE
présentée par Homeopathyforce.com
Dr Seth R.
BECKWITH (1832-1905)
Photo : collection Sylvain Cazalet (HIstory of Homeopathy –
King)
Dr. Seth R. Beckwith was no
less notable in his relation to the homœopathic cause throughout the middle
states. After graduating from the college in 1853, he located in Norwalk,
Ohio, where he was practicing at the time of his call to take the chair of
surgical anatomy in the Cleveland college. He interested himself
particularly in surgical work and was the surgeon of the railways entering
Cleveland. Later he secured the control of the county hospital, using it for
clinical teaching for the benefit of his students. He became prominent in
national circles, having been an officer of the American Institute of
Homœopathy and of the Ohio State Homœopathic Society.
Photo : collection Sylvain Cazalet
The CLEVELAND HOMEOPATHIC
HOSPITAL (May 1856-1917), founded by Dr. Seth R.
Beckwith, was the first privately owned hospital in Cleveland.
Beckwith took over a 2-story house on Lake St. (Lakeside Ave.) at Clinton
Rd. and modified it to accommodate 20 patients, mainly sick and injured
employees of the Lake Shore and the Cleveland, Columbus, & Cincinnati
railroads. It soon affiliated with the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital
College, formed in 1850 as the Western College of Homeopathy, where Beckwith
was an instructor and later dean. The college faculty practiced and taught
at the hospital. In 1869 homeopathic physicians withdrew from the Willson
St. Hospital and opened Cleveland Protestant Homeopathy Hospital. In 1873
that hospital moved into the Humiston Institute building on Huron Rd. The
hospital consolidated with Beckwith’s hospital, and the following year
incorporated as the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital (sometimes referred to as
the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital Society). The incorporators were Drs.
Beckwith, Hamilton F. Biggar, and John C. Sanders. Dr. H. H. Baxter
was also prominently identified with the project. A new hospital was
constructed on the Huron Rd. site in 1879, and a larger building replaced
that one in 1895. The Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital closed in 1919 because
of competition from SAINT VINCENT CHARITY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER, and
became Huron Rd. Hospital, later MERIDIA HURON HOSPITAL.
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