Dr Edwin Moses HALE (1829-1899) – PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE présentée par Homeopathyforce.com

Médecin
Homéopathe Américain – Michigan.

Connu surtout pour son ouvrage:

“Materia Medica and Therapeutics of New Remedies (2 volumes).

Photo : Collection Sylvain Cazalet.

Biography:

Edwin Moses Hale,
physician, born in Newport, New Hampshire, 2 February, 1829. He became a
printer in early life, employing his leisure hours in study. He was
graduated at the Cleveland homoeopathic medical college in 1859,
practised his profession for twelve years in Jonesville, Michigan,
became in 1863 professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the
Hahnemann medical college, Chicago, and held the same chair in Chicago
homoeopathic college from 1880 till 1884, when he became professor
emeritus. In 1871 he began a series of special lectures on diseases of
the heart. In addition to his editorial connection with various journals
he is the author of many monographs and of several treatises, among
which are “New Remedies” (2 vols., New York, 1867);
“Pocket Manual of Domestic Practice” (1870); “Lectures on
Diseases of the Heart” (1871); and “Diseases of Women”
(1875).

Photo : Collection Sylvain Cazalet.

HALE, EDWIN M.,
M. D., of Chicago, Ills., was born in Newport, N. H., and is the son of
Dr. S. Hale. He is honorably descended from the Hales of Norfolk,
England, a distinguished family. When only seven years old, he
accompanied his father to Fredonia, O. During his residence there, he
was graduated through the public schools, and became a printer, and an
associate editor of a newspaper in Newark. Intended for the profession
of law, he found the study uncongenial, and abandoned it promptly. While
in Newark, an attack of pneumonia requiring prompt treatment, he
declined the allopathic mode, and placed himself under the charge of Dr.
Blair, then the only homœopathic physician in Newark, and one of the
pioneers of that system in Ohio. The treatment of his case was so
successful that, on his recovery, he decided -against the wishes of his
father- to prosecute the study of homœopathy, and, entering the office
of Dr. Blair, prepared himself for admission to the Cleveland Homœopathic
Medical College, at its first session, and graduated from that
celebrated institution with distinguished honor. In 1852, He located in
Jonesville, Mich., where he built up a large and successful practice. He
was one of the pioneers of homœopathy in that State. During his
residence there, he became the associated editor of the North
American Journal of Homœopathy, and of the American Homœopathic
Observer, positions which he still
fills with marked ability. In 1860, he gave to the public “A
Monograph of Gelseminum,” a work which first introduced him to the
public as an author. His many able papers on new and indigenous remedies
early made him known to the homœopathists of this country, and, in
1862, he published the first edition of “New Remedies,” which
attained such success, that a new edition was soon called for. In 1860,
being invited to the chair of Materia Medica in the Hahnemann Medical
College of Chicago, he removed to that place, and, entering into
partnership with Dr. A. E. Small, he remained with him five years. He
then formed a partnership with his brother. Dr. P. H. Hale, from
Michigan, with whom he was associated until the occurrence of the great
fire, in 1871. A second edition of “New Remedies” was
published in 1867. Two years later, Halsey & Co., of Chicago,
brought out an able work from his pen, entitled, “The Therapeutics
of Sterility.” This was followed by sundry monographs on Materia
Medica and medical jurisprudence. In 1870, he was elected to the chair
of Medical Botany and Pharmacology in the Hahnemann Medical College of
Chicago, and to the position of Lecturer on Diseases of the Heart. His
lectures on this latter subject were published, in 1871, by Boericke
& Tafel, of New York. In 1872, his chair was enlarged to comprehend
the “Therapeutics of New Remedies.” At this date, the
beginning of 1873, his works on “New Remedies,” and
“Diseases of the Heart,” are passing to new editions. He has
also in press a treatise on “Cerebro-spinal Menengitis and its Homœopathic
Treatment.”

     Dr.
Hale is yet in the prime of life. Possessed of a frail constitution
which needs constant care, he has a temperament which impels him on in
the pursuit of knowledge. He is a remarkably well balanced man ;
and having in a rare degree the faculty of self-possession, he has
maintained successfully the positions, which through much criticism he
has assumed, in the theory and practice of his profession. His compeers
award him the honor of being one of the most indefatigable of laborers,
and a thorough investigator of new remedies, especially those which
pertain to the indigenous flora of the United States. In this respect he
is pre-eminent, the profession being largely indebted to him for the
introduction and proving of many of the remedies now most common, and of
acknowledged efficiency, and which the homœopathic physician cannot
dispense with in the proper treatment of many forms of disease. Dr. Hale
has by his publications acquired fame throughout Europe ; his
“New Remedies,” and other valuable papers having been
translated into the German, French, and Spanish languages. His incessant
employment as a lecturer, writer, and practitioner have secured him a
lucrative return ; and he has been able to devote a portion of his
leisure and of his pecuniary means to the gratification of his taste for
æsthetics. Poems from his graceful pen have frequently appeared, and
his penchant for works of art is
visible in the surroundings of his home.

     Dr.
Hale is an honorary member of the State Societies of New York, Michigan,
and Massachusetts ; a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy,
and of the Illinois State Homœopathic Medical Society, to all of which
he has largely contributed in the way of original provings. He is also a
frequent contributor to the various homœopathic journals of this
country and England. He has made by his unwearied efforts an exalted
reputation, not only among his immediate patrons and professional
friends, but throughout the Union and abroad, both as a physician and as
a writer on medical subjects.

Source (bio + photo) 
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic
Physicians and Surgeons By Egbert Cleave

Books:

1858. Homœopathy
and it’s Principles. 8p.

1860. On The Homœopathic Treatment of
Abortion. Chicago, IL: Halsey & King.
22p.

1862. A Soldier’s and Travellers’ Manual. Detroit,
MI: E. A. Lodge. 31p.

1864. The Therapeutics of Retroflexion and
Retroversion of the Uterus. Chicago, IL: C. S.
Halsey. 22p.

1864. The Law of Dose. Chicago.
16p.

1864. New Remedies. Detroit,
MI: E. A. Lodge. 448p.

1866. A Systematic Treatise on Abortion. Chicago,
IL: Halsey & King. 347p.

1867. Homœopathic Materia Medica of the New
Remedies. 2d ed. Detroit,
MI: E. A. Lodge. 1142p.

1867. The Great Crime of the 19th Century. [Criminal
Abortion]. Chicago, IL: C. S. Halsey. 40p.

1868. A Systematic Treatise on Abortion. 2d
ed. Chicago, IL: Halsey & King. 361p.

1869. The Great Crime of the 19th Century. [The
Medical Jurisprudence of Foeticide]. Chicago, IL: C. S. Halsey. 50p.

1873. The Characteristics of the New Remedies. 3rd
ed. Detroit, MI: Lodge’s
Homœopathic Pharmacy. 544p.

Hale, E. M. 1875. Materia Medica and Special
Therapeutics of the New Remedies. 4th ed.
New York, NY: Boericke & Tafel. 199p.

1878. The Medical, Surgical and Hygienic
Treatment of Diseases of Women. New York, NY:
Boericke & Tafel. 378p.

1880-1886. Materia Medica and Special
Therapeutics of the New Remedies. 5th ed.
Philadelphia, PA: Boericke & Tafel. (2 vol.)

1884. The Compendium of Health. The
American Book Co. 945p.

1889. Lectures on Diseases of the Heart. 3rd
ed. with a repertory. Philadelphia, PA: Boericke & Tafel. 478p.