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PHOTOTHÈQUE
HOMÉOPATHIQUE
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Dr
Diocletian LEWIS (1823-1886)
Photos : courtesy of Dr Robert Castro.
Dr Dio Lewis.
LEWIS, Dio, physician, born
in Auburn, New York, 3 March, 1823; died in Yonkers, New York, 21 May, 1886.
He studied at the Harvard medical school, and, adopting homoeopathy
(Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland, Ohio – 1851), practised it for
several years in Buffalo, New York, where he also edited and published a
medical magazine in which he deprecated the use of drugs and advocated
physical exercise as a part of public education. From 1852 till 1863 he was
engaged in lecturing on hygiene and physiology, and at the latter date he
settled in Boston and founded the Boston normal physical training school, at
which, in seven years, five hundred pupils were graduated. His influence had
much to do with the establishment of the present system of physical culture
in most of the institutions of learning in the United States. In 1864 he
established in Lexington, Massachusetts, a school for young women which was
based on hygienic principles, but in September, 1868, the buildings were
burned, and the next year the school was given up. He then resumed
lecturing, principally on hygiene and temperance, and originated the women’s
temperance crusade in Ohio.
He edited
“Today,” “Dio Lewis’s Monthly,” “Dio Lewis
Nuggets,” and the “Dio Lewis Treasury,” the latter being put
to press immediately before his death. He published. besides numerous
pamphlets and papers in magazines, “New Gymnastics” (Boston,
1862); “Weak Lungs, and how to make them Strong” (1863);
“Talks about People’s Stomachs” (1870); “Our Girls” (New
York, 1871); “Chats with Young Women” (1871); “Chastity”
(1872); “Gypsies” (1881); and “In a Nutshell” (1883).
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