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PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE
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Dr Francis Fœldvar DE DERKY (1833-?)
Photo Sylvain Cazalet – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia p. 402
Homéopathe Américain – Alabama – USA.
Photo Sylvain Cazalet – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia p. 402
DE DERKY, FRANCIS FŒLDVAR,
M. D., of Mobile, Ala., was born in Germany, on the lower Rhine, on the 11th
day of June, 1833. He is a son of Johann Carl De Derky, a distinguished
officer in the Prussian army from 1812 to 1815. Restless under the
restraints and confined atmosphere at home, he gained the reputation of
being a wild boy, and, when quite young, ran away and traveled over a great
part of Europe.
At
the time of the Hungarian revolution in 1848, though a mere boy, he enlisted
in the insurrectionary army at Pesth, and fought with the gallant Kossuth in
many battles.
He
first began the study of medicine with Professor Balassa, at Pesth. During
the progress of the Crimean war, in 1855, he tendered his services to
England, but they were declined, as at that time they were not needed. He
had become deeply interested in homœopathy, and entered assiduously into an
investigation of the truths it revealed. His studies were pursued, at many
times, under great difficulty and at a great personal sacrifice. In 1856, he
was sent by Great Britain on board a transport to Quebec, Canada, where
there was at that time no homœopathic physician. In 1857, having found his
way to Ypsilanti, Mich. ; he began to practice homœopathy in that
place. He removed thence to Chicago, where, by the advice of Drs. R. Ludlaw
and E. O. Small, he entered Hahnemann Medical College, whence he graduated
at its institution commencement. He removed to Quebec, Canada East, in 1861,
and there became the pioneer of homœopathy, and encountered the most
determined opposition from allopathic ranks ; they scarcely suffered
him to engage in practice at all until be became a licentiate of Canada.
After a short period spent in New York city, he married, in 1866, Sarah C.
Taylor, a daughter of David Taylor, of Lynn, Mass. He began to practice in
New Bedford, in 1868, and in 1869, became a citizen of the United States.
After
the meeting of the American Institute, in Washington, D. C., in 1872, he
went to Europe, and revisited London, Paris, Bonn, Heidelberg, Vienna,
Leipzig, Berlin, and many other prominent cities, as well as the renowned
medical institutions of the old world.
Since
his return he has practiced in Mobile, Ala. He is a member of the Central
Verein of Homœopathic Physicians of Germany, the Homœopathic Institute of
America, the Massachusetts Homœopathic Society, and many other smaller
associations. The vast amount of adventurous experience of this
distinguished physician, as well as his careful observation of the methods
of practice in the best medical schools in the world, eminently fit him for
the emergencies likely to arise in his varied and extending practice.
Source : Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic
Physicians and Surgeons By Egbert Cleave
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