Homeopathy Timeline 1800-1824, Early Development

Biographies & Schools	Books & Countries
1800-1878 Marie Melanie d'Hervilly Gohier Hahnemann; homeopath and Hahnemann's second wife Melanie Hahnemann biography	1800 Cure and Prevention of Scarlet Fever Samuel Hahnemann, MD writes of using 'the smallest dosages'
1800-1880 Constantine Hering, MD, author of "Guiding Symptoms", "Domestic Physician", introduced Glonoine, Lachesis, Psorinum Hering biography
1800-1875 George Heinrich Gottlieb Jahr, author of the first repertorial index to Hahnemann's materia medica
1800-1877 Jacob Jeanes, a founder of The Allentown Academy. Jeanes was the author of the first original English language work on homeopathic practice, *The Homeopathic Practice of Medicine*, published in 1838. The book was still acclaimed by Hahnemannians a century later.
1800-1869 Carl Friedrich Gotfried Trinks, an early disciple of Hahnemann's and a prover. Trinks published *The Handbook of Materia Medica* with some assistance from Noack and Muller, 1843-1848.
1800-1855 William Channing. His successful public trials of Veratrum, Camphor, and Cuprum in the 1832 cholera epidemic were to firmly establish homeopathy in New York. He was America's first Hahnemannian - unwilling to resort to allopathic expedients - thereby creating the schism in principles of practice which would lead to the founding of The International Hahnemannian Association in 1881.
1800-1877 Mercy Jackson, MD, first woman member of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society	1803 On The Effects of Coffee published by Samuel Hahnemann.
1803-1864 Gustav Adolph Schreter; his success during the 1831 cholera epidemic led to relentless persecution by physicians and apothecaries, nearly driving him to flee to America. The Emperor of Austria, petitioned by hundreds of the doctor's supporters, granted the right of homeopaths to practice and dispense on Schreter's birthday, March 1, 1836. As a prover of Borax, he can be credited with the keynote symptom, 'fear of downward motion', which he verified in many children.	1805 Hahnemann publishes Fragmenta de Viribus Medicamentorum Positivis, which included the first repertory of homeopthic materia medica.
1803-1869 John Epps, one of Britain's earliest and most well known homeopaths. As an allopath, he had been a frequent contributor to *The Lancet. In 1843 his homeopathically treated case of haematemesis was published in the Lancet* provoking "an avalanche of letters" which led to the rejection of further homeopathic cases.	1806 Hahnemann publishes New System of Medicine Based on Experience
1804-1895 John Romig, a pioneer of homeopathy in Pennsylvania and a founder and faculty member of The Allentown Academy.
1806-1889 Edward Bayard
1807-1861 Gustavus Reichelm, the pioneer homeopath of Pittsburgh, known as "The Sugar Powder Doctor". As attending physician of The Catholic Orphan Asylum for twelve years, during which time there were epidemics of measles, scarlet fever, and whooping cough, he had but two deaths.	1808 Hahnemann's articles that appeared in Allgemeine Anzeiger der Deutschen: On The Value of Speculative Systems of Medicine Extract from a Letter To A Physician of High Standing on The Great Necessity of a Regeneration of Medicine On The Present Want of Foreign Medicines On Substitutes for Foreign Drugs And on The Recent Announcement of the Medical Faculty in Vienna relative to the Superfluousness of The Latter Observations on Scarlet Fever
1807-1856 Joseph Attomyr, a pioneer Hungarian homeopath.
1808-1891 Phineas Parkhurst Wells, MD, lifelong friend of Dunham and mentor to many young doctors of his day. Wells biography
1809-1895 Charles S. Neidhard, a graduate of The Allentown Academy, and author of what was considered the best treatise on diphtheria. He held the conviction that the similarity of the remedy must also include the pathological state.	1809 Hahnemann's articles that appeared in Allgemeine Anzeiger der Deutschen: To a Candidate for the Degree of M.D. Signs of the Times in the Ordinary System of Medicine On the Prevailing Fever
1809-1858 Benoit-Jules Mure; prover of Elaps, Crot-c, Hura, and Manc, and author of Provings of The Principal Animal and Vegetable Poisons of The Brazilian Empire, published in English, 1854.
1809-1867 Joseph Birnstill	1810 Brazil Jose Silva begins contact with Hahnemann
1810-1859 Amos Gerald Hull, an American homeopath of great prominence in promoting homeopathy in the 19th century. Amos Hull biography	1810 Hahnemann's essay Defense of the Organon
1810-1862 Jean Paul Tessier	1810 The Organon of Rational Healing 1st edition is published British Journal of Homeopathy commentary, 1878
1811-1821 Hahnemann compiles Materia Medica Pura. This article by Hahnemann is taken from the introduction to the print version: The Medical Observer	1811 Reine Arzneimittellehre or Materia Medica Pura, Volume One, published. In Our Bookstore
1811 Hahnemann moves to Leipzig where Stapf becomes his first pupil.	1811 To establish himself as a teacher at the University of Leipzig, Hahnemann defends his thesis, Disseratio historico-medica de Heleborismo veterum with his son Friederick as respondent. "...he was able to quote verbatim and give the location of the passages from manifold German, French, English, Italian, Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic medical writers, and he could examine their views - either in disagreement or in extension. He quoted from fifty more or less known doctors, philosophers, and naturalists." - Sir John Weir, 1933.
1811-1874 Joseph Hypolyte Pulte. The second and most prominent homeopath in Cincinnati, Ohio. His neighbors drove logs through the wheels of his carriage in orders to derail homeopathy.
1811-1879 Charles Julius Hempel. Known as the 'Father of Homeopathic Literature' in America for his early, if imperfect, translations of the major German works of Hahnemann, Jahr, Hartmann, and others. These works had been previously inaccessible for the majority of American physicians.
1811-1888 Adolphus Graf zur Lippe-Weissenfeld
1812-1888 Adolph Lippe, considered to be one of the greatest prescribers in Homeopathy, was involved with the journals, "The Organon", "Hahnemannian Monthly", and "The Homeopathic Physician", among others, and helped form the International Hahnemannian Association 1. Adolph Lippe biography 2. Sketch of Adolph Lippe by Harvey Farrington	1812 Argentina General San Martin arrives with homeopathic medicine chest
	1812 Germany Hahnemann acquires followers who form the Prover's Union
1813-1888 Clemence Sophia Lozier, founder of New York Medical College for Women in 1863, which became the first homeopathic college for women in the world.
1814-1893 Samuel Swan, considered a crank by many in his time, but like Hahnemann, he was at least 50 years in advance of the majority of his homeopathic brethren. Samuel Swan biography
1815-1891 Samuel Lilienthal, MD, author of "Homoeopathic Therapeutics"
1815-1902 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leader of the suffrage movement who was a lay practitioner and lifelong supporter of homeopathy.
1815-1857 Joseph Thomas Curtis, Gram's second pupil.	1817 Hahnemann constructs handwritten "Symptom Dictionary".
1817-1885 Henry N. Guernsey, MD, author of "Guernsey's Obstetrics"	1817 Chile General San Martin brings homeopathic medicine chest to Chile
1817 Emperor Francis I of Austria outlaws the practice of homeopathy.	1818 Austria homeopathy introduced in Austria
1819-1906 Bernhardt Fincke, developer of the Fincke 'fluxion' potencies Bernhardt Fincke biography	1818 Hungary Joseph Muller brings homeopathy to Budapest
1819-1904 Robert Dudgeon, MD, translator of the 5th edition of the Organon	1819 The Organon of Rational Healing 2nd edition is published
1820 Hahnemann is arrested in Leipzig for dispensing his own medicines.	1820's South Africa Homeopathy introduced by European missionaries
1821-1898 Dr. Wilhelm Schuessler, M.D., developer of Biochemic Therapy, which uses potentized doses of cell salts. Schuessler biography	1821 Denmark Hans Christian Lund brings homeopathy to Denmark
1821 Hahnemann moves to Köthen	1821 Italy Dr. Necker begins practice of homeopathy
1821 Hering cured of dissecting wound by Arsenicum.	1821 First journal, Archive of The Homeopathic Method of Curing edited by Gross and Stapf.
1821 Government of Bohemia grants homeopaths right to dispense medicines.	1821 Reinearzneimittelehre, volume 6 is published and the first homeopathic materia medica, Samuel Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura, is complete.
1823-1897 Susan Edson, one of the first women admitted to the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College. Family physician to President Garfield, but allowed only to attend him as a nurse after his assassination.	1823 United States Hans Burch Gram, America's first homeopath, emigrates from Copenhagen to the United States.
	1823 Dr. Bergmann publishes the first homeopathic treatise on a disease, A Manual of The Syphlytic Diseases.
	1823 The Organon of Rational Healing 3rd edition is published
	1823 Russia Homeopathy introduced by laypeople From Russia with Love A special article on Russian Homeopathy today, by Dana Ullman, MPH

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1800 - 1824