Historical calendar

Jan

01, Constantine Hering, born 1800

01, British Journal of Homeopathy published 1843

01, E.A. Farrington, MD, physician, author and educator, born 1847

04, Walter Williamson, MD, founder of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania (with Hering and Jeanes) born, 1811

11, four doctors are expelled from the Anatomical Society of Paris, because they are homeopaths, 1856

12, homeopathic physician appointed to the hospital at Castlemaine, Australia, 1868

20, von Boenninghausen dies, 1864

C.G.H. Jahr, author of Jahr’s Symtomen Codex and Repertory, born 1800

Feb

Mar

04, Alvan E. Small, MD born 1811 (teacher of H.N. Guernsey)

04, James Kitchen, MD, born 1800 (one of the founders of AIH)

08, E.B. Nash, MD, born 1838 (author and educator)

11, Frederick Humphreys, MD, born 1816 (founder of Humphreys’ Specifics)

12, Clemens von Boenninghausen, born 1785 (author of the first repertory)

14 James William Ward, MD, born 1862, (author, educator)

17, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, MD, born 1820 (translator of the Organon and author of several homeopathic tracts)

26, First lecture at London Homeopathic Hospital, 1851

31, James Tyler Kent, MD, born 1849

Apr

06, Robert McClatchey, MD born 1836, (author and teacher at Hahnemann, PA

06, Wilhelm Lux, first homeopathic veterinarian, born 1776

08, incorporation of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1848 (renamed Hahnemann Hospital)

10, Samuel Hahnemann born, 1755

10, “Allentown Academy”, the first homeopathic school, founded, 1835

10, British Homeopathic Society formed, 1844

17, Hans Christian Lund dies, 1846 (the first homeopath in Denmark and teacher of H.B. Gram, the first homeopath in the US

19, CHarles Neidhard, MD, founder of the AIH, born 1809

22, Jabez P. Dake, MD, born 1827 (author and teacher)

24, Timothy F. Allen, MD, born in Vermont, 1837 (author and teacher)

28, David S. Smith, MD, the “Father of Western Homeopathy,” founder of Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, born 1816

May

03, Allen C. Cowperthwaite, MD, born 1848 (author and teacher)

08, Karl Gottlob Franz, MD, born 1795 (one of Hahnemann’s first pupils)

11, Charles G. Raue, MD, born 1820 (one of Hering’s protogés)

11, Federal Vandenburgh, MD, born 1788 (one of the first NY homeopaths)

11, Adolf Lippe, MD, born 1812 (pupil of Hering, author of Materia Medica, founder of the AIH and of the IHA.

13, Cyrus M. Boger, MD, born 1861, educator, author

21, Stephen R. Kirby, MD, born 1861, (pupil of Gram, founder of the AIH)

23, Foundation stone of Hahnemannian monument laid, Leizig, 1851

Jun

02, R.T. Cooper, MD born 1844 (English homeopath of the last century)

05, Pennsylvania State Homoeopathic Medical Society founded 1866

05, James Tyler Kent dies 1916

07, T.L. Bradford, MD (author, editor, historian) born 1848

14, Martin Deschere, MD, developer of the Deshere potentizer, born 1848

14, Edinborough University denies a degree of MD to Mr. Pope on account of his intended study of homeopathy, 1851

17, The North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing Art founded in Allentown, PA, 1836 (first homeopathic school in the US)

18, F.E. Boericke, MD, founder of Boericke and Tafel born 1826

21, Hahnemann monument dedicated with Pres. McKinley attending, 1900

26, Hahnemann defends his thesis on “Helleborism of the Ancients,” 1812

Jul

01, Monthly Homeopathic Review, first published, 1856

02, Samuel Hahnemann, died 1843

04, Samuel Swan, MD, developer of Medorrhinum and Syphilinum, born 1814

06, Sisters of Charity Homeopathic Hospital opened, Vienna, 1832

08, P.P. Wells, MD, pupil of Hering, born 1808

15, George Royal, MD, author and educator, born 1853

23, Henry Detwiller, gives the first homeopathic dose in Pennsylvania, 1828

23, Constantine Hering, MD, the “father” of American homeopathy, dies, Philadelphia, 1880

Aug

05, Homeopathic Times first published

11, Hahnemann graduates Erlangen, 1779

12, Garth Boericke, MD, last teacher of Homeopathy at Hahnemann in Philadelphia, born 1893

31, Hahnemann granted permission to practice in Paris, 1835

Sep

05 Charles J. Hempel, MD, author and educator born 1811

06, Gustav Wilhem Gross, MD, one of Hahnemann’s first pupils, born 1794

09, Johann Ernst Stapf, MD, Hahnemann’s pupil and prover, born 1788

10, Hans Burch Gram, MD, America’s first homeopath, comes from Denmark, 1825

15, A.J. Tafel, founder of Boericke and Tafel, born 1839

20, E.M. Kellog, MD, first to advocate a graded course in the study of medicine, teacher at NY Homeopathic, born 1826

21, Dr. Clutterbuck makes the first reference to homeopathy in England at a meeting of the London Medical Society, 1826

24, John F. Gray, MD, first pupil of Gram, born 1804

Oct

Nov

Dec

22 - Dana Ullman born 1951

 

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