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PHOTOTHÈQUE
HOMÉOPATHIQUE
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Dr George
Washington RICHARDS (1829-1893)
Photo Sylvain Cazalet – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia
p. 115
Homéopathe Américain – New
York – USA.
Photo Sylvain Cazalet – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia
p. 115
RICHARDS, GEORGE W., M.
D., of Orange, N. J., was born in Columbia, N. J., November 28th, 1829. He
is descended on his father’s side from Puritans, and on his mother’s side is
a scion of the Huguenots. Having passed through the preparatory academic
studies, he became a pupil in medicine with Dr. Green, an able and
accomplished physician in Madison, N. J. Continuing with him for two years
and a half, he went to New York, and entered the office of a relative, Lewis
A. Sayre, M. D., a distinguished surgeon of that city, with whom he studied
a year and a half. Matriculating at the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
New York, he graduated there, in 1853. He applied for a position in the New
York State Emigrant Hospital, and received the appointment of Assistant
House Physician. In this office, he acquitted himself so efficiently, that
in three months, he was tendered the position of House Physician. This
promotion was as complimentary as such advancement was unusual, the
requirement being a year’s residence as assistant. During his connection
with this institution, embracing about eighteen months, nearly eighteen
thousand patients were treated, or one thousand per month.
He
next visited Europe, and made a careful and critical examination of the
hospitals of London, Dublin and Paris ; and on his return, commenced
practice in New York city. A vacancy occurring in the medical staff of the
Hewitt Dispensary, he was chosen out of twenty-one applicants to fill the
position. He continued there for fifteen months, during which time twenty
thousand patients were treated. While here, he began to experiment with
some of the homœopathic remedies, in chronic cutaneous diseases, and to his
great surprise found them prompt and efficient. These results so fully
convinced him of the superiority of the homœopathic system, that he
embraced it, tendered his resignation to the dispensary, and in a short time
was appointed one of the physicians to Fulgraph’s Homœopathic Dispensary,
the largest institution of the kind in New York. After three years of steady
practice in New York, he went to Newark, N. J., and formed a partnership
with Dr. Lafon, one of the oldest and ablest homœopathic physicians in that
city. In a few weeks, with the co-operation of Dr. Lafon, he established a
homœopathic dispensary, the first in the State. He opened at the same time,
a branch office in Orange, four miles distant, of which he assumed the
charge. This arrangement lasted one year, when on the dissolution of the
partnership he removed to Orange, Dr. Lafon remaining in Newark. He has a
successful practice, and has gained largely the confidence of the community.
He
has served as President of the Homœopathic Medical Society of the Eastern
District of New Jersey, and has contributed to the literature of his
profession, through the pages of The New England Medical Gazette ;
The North American Journal of Homœopathy, and The Homœopathic World,
of London.
He
was married December 23d, 1861, to Miss Lydia Amelia Doland, of New York
city.
Source : Cleave’s Biographical
Cyclopædia of Homœopathic
Physicians and Surgeons By Egbert Cleave
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