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PHOTOTHÈQUE
HOMÉOPATHIQUE
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Dr William
Larned CLEVELAND (1809-1876)
Photo Sylvain Cazalet – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia
p. 299
Homéopathe Américain –
Atlanta – USA.
Photo Sylvain Cazalet – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia
p. 299
CLEVELAND, WM. L.,
M. D., of Atlanta, Ga., was born in Harrisburg, Pa., on June 16th, 1809. He
is the son of Dr. John Cleveland, of Harrisburg, Pa., who died when the
subject of this sketch was scarcely eight years old. As he grew up, he
showed distinctly that he had inherited his father’s love for the practice
of medicine. He was reared by his brother A. A. Cleveland, of Wilkes county,
Ga. He entered the office of his brother-in-law, Dr. C. J. Ward, also of the
same county, in 1832, for the purpose of reading medicine. In 1833, he went
to Charleston, S. C., to attend lectures in the fall, but in consequence of
pecuniary embarrassment, his purpose had to be abandoned. It being necessary
to find the means of living, he engaged in a mercantile business, until
1839. Then he established himself in the drag business in that city, and
carried it on successfully until 1854. During this time, however, he had not
wholly given up his idea of entering the medical profession. He had kept up
his reading, and attended lectures in the South Carolina Medical College in
the same city, and did an extensive practice in connection with his drug
business. Finally he disposed of his business interests and went North for
the purpose of studying homœopathy, to which his attention had been drawn,
and the superiority of which over allopathy had been most palpably
demonstrated by the almost magical recovery of a sister under homœopathic
treatment at the hands of Dr. Bayard of New York ; and received during
his studies and researches valuable assistance from his friend, Dr. J. Lloyd
Martin, now of Baltimore. He graduiated at the Homœopathic College of
Cleveland, O. He began his career as a homœopath in Atlanta, Ga., in 1858.
For a tune he suffered intensely from the jeers, sneers, insults and
persecutions of the practitioners of the old school ; but he bore them
with dignity, supported by the firm faith that time would establish the
value of the new system he was introducing. Calmly pursuing his way,
accomplishing many very remarkable results, his practice steadily increased,
and many who at first had ridiculed, not only ceased their jibes, but gave
in their adhesion to the all-potent principles, the observance of which had
been attended with such gratifying success. His skill in treating disease is
now as widely acknowledged as his attention to his profession and its
manifold duties is close and unremitting. He occupies a position second to
that of no physician in Atlanta.
Dr.
Cleveland is still a very earnest student, and studies with a mind ever open
to impartially weigh all new theories and all novelties in practice that are
brought forward. He keeps himself well up with the march of the profession.
He subscribes to, and reads with diligent care, every homœopathic journal
published in America, and also several European periodicals ; not even
disregarding the allopathic and eclectic literature.
He
is a staunch advocate of homœopathy, and puts forth every effort to advance
its interests. He was one of the pioneers of the cause in Georgia, and by
his able arguments in its behalf during the fifteen years which he has
devoted himself entirely to its practice, he has converted several
physicians of the old school. One of these acknowledges a lasting debt of
gratitude to Dr. Cleveland for the skill and care that resulted in restoring
him to health and happiness from the sufferings of chronic cystitis.
Although
at the present time Dr. Cleveland has a very extensive practice, and is
warmly supported by a large circle of the best families in the city of
Atlanta and the surrounding country, he always finds time to attend to the
necessities of poor and destitute suffering humanity. No appeal to him for
advice and treatment from such unfortunates was ever disregarded ; his
warm-hearted, generous nature rendering him always ready to respond to their
calls so far as it is in his power to do so.
Dr.
Cleveland is at this writing in his sixty-third year, but his life having
been well spent, and proper regard paid to the laws of health, he is as hale
and hearty as most comparatively young men. He is very active in his habits,
and fills a wide sphere of usefulness. In public and social matters he takes
a deep interest, but has never aspired to any prominent position in politics
or in local affairs, preferring to discharge his duty in a quiet,
unobtrusive manner, and to confine his ambition within the limits of his own
profession. Possessing unusually fine qualities of mind and heart, well
informed in a wide range of subjects, and very attractive in his manners, he
has made hosts of warm friends in the community in the midst of which he
labors.
Source : Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic
Physicians and Surgeons By Egbert Cleave
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