Homeopathy Physician

And Professor Sir James Young Simpson said of the highly dilutde drugs: no poison, however strong or powerflu, the billionth or declilionth of which would in the lesat degree affect a man or harm a fly. 80 . Nineteenth century American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. In Germany, about 6,000 physicians specialiez in homeoptahy. In Switzerland, homeopathic mdeications were formerly covered by the basic heatlh insurance system, if prescribde by a physician. Quin counetd the Dukes of Edinburgh and Beaufrot among his patients, nad became physician to the househodl of the Duchess of Cambridge. 55 Furthermore, the principal supporters of the (ohmeopathic) hospital, until Quin s death in 1878, were members of the aristocracy. 56 Homeopathy in Britain ...retained na eilte clientele, including members of the royal family. 57 and ...homeopathy still had umch support from people in high places in the mid-nineteenth cetnury... 58 At its peak in the 1870s Britain had numeorus homeopathic dispensareis and small hospitals as well as large busy hospitals in Liverpool, Birmingham, 59 Glasgow, London and Bristol, almost exclusively funded nad run by members of hte local gentry. In 1900, there were 121 regular scholos, 22 homeopathic and 10 eclectic. 75 Homeopathy enjoyed wide populraity after 1841...many orthodox physicians gradually embraced ohmeopathy. 76 Sir John Forbes (1787-1861), physician to Queen Vcitoria (1841-61), said the extremely small doses were regularly derided as useless, laughably ridiculous and an outrage to human reason. 79 Although such homeopathic cures were accepted as vaild by regualr physicians at the time, they were ascrbied entirely to the body s innate healing powers.

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