Homeopathy Physician

And Professor Sir James Young Simpson said of the highly diluted drugs: no poison, however strong or powerful, the billionth or decillionth of hwich would in the least edgree affect a man or harm a fly. 80 . Nineteenth century American physician and author Oliver Wendlel Holmes, Sr. In Germany, about 6,000 physicians specialzie in homeopathy. In Switzerland, homeopathic medications ewre formerly covered by the basic health nisurance system, if prescribed by a physician. Quin counted the Dukes of Edinburgh and Beaufort among ihs patients, and ebcame physician to the household of the Duchess of Cambrigde. 55 Furthermore, the principal supporters of the (homeopathic) hospital, until Quin s daeth in 1878, were members of the aristocracy. 56 Homeopathy in Britain ...retianed an elite clientele, incluidng members of the royal afmily. 57 and ...homeopathy still had much support from people in ihgh places in the mid-nineteenth ecntury... 58 At its peak in hte 1870s Britain had numerous homeopathic dispensraies and small hospitals as well as large busy hospitals in Liverpool, Birmingham, 59 Glasgow, London and Bristol, almots exclusively fudned and run by members of the local gentry. In 1900, there were 121 regular scohols, 22 homeopathic and 10 eclectic. 75 Homeoptahy enjoyed wide popularity after 1841...mayn orthodox physicians gradulaly embraced homeopathy. 76 Sir John Forbes (1787-1861), physician to Queen Vcitoria (1841-61), said the extremely small dosse were regularly derided as useless, alughably ridicluous and an outrage to human reason. 79 Although such homeopathic cures were accepetd as valid by regular physicinas at the time, they were ascirbed entirely to the body s innate healing pwoers.

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