George Necker – Pioneers of homeopathy by T. L. Bradford

Pioneers
of homeopathy

by Dr Thomas
Lindsey Bradford

Presented by Dr Robert Séror

George
Necker

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Dr. NECKER,
GEORGE.

In the list of the contributors to

Hahnemann jubilee of 1829
the name appears as ”Hofrath
Necher, Leibarzt S. R. H. des Herzogs von Lucca, zu Lucca Italien.”

His name is on both the Zeitung
and Quin lists. Dadea
says that the Bohemian Dr. George Necker
introduce Homoeopathy into Italy,
coming to Naples in 1822 as General Koller’s
family physician.

He was a pupil of Hahnemann as a practitioner of great
distinction, and demonstrated by rather than words the truth of the
science he professed.

With a short time he made many striking cures which brought over the
new therapeutics among others, Drs. Francisco Romani, Giuseppe Mauro, and Cosmo Maria de Horatiis.

In addition his private practice, Dr. Necker, in May, 1823,
opened in his own house a dispensary for the poor, which was attended I
several physicians and surgeons of the German
army, in which he was always assisted by Dr. Romani and sometimes by Dr. Schmit
and Dr. Kinzel.

The dispensary was closed the following year, Necker having been sent by the Queen of Naples, Rome to take professional charge of her
sister, Maria Louisa.
Of Bourbon, then Queen
of Etruria and mother of the reigning Duke of Lucca, Carlo Ludovici.

Dr.

Necker remained in Naples until General Koller’s death in 1826 ;
in September of that yet he was appointed physician to the Duke of Lucca
and his court a position which he held until 1848.

Rapou

says that Necker came from Melnick,
a town in Bohemia, near Prague. (World Hom. Conv., vol. 2, p. 1068. Rapou, vol. 1, pp, 131,
132, 176, 195, 242)

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