Word: homeopaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...established in Germany in 1810 by Dr. Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann, it is based on a principle that drugs which will cause certain symptoms will also relieve the same symptoms. Example: when a patient has a fever, a regular doctor will try to find and remove its cause. A homeopath, on the other hand, will treat fevers (from diverse causes) with a drug that itself causes fever, on the theory that "like cures like." Among those who have had homeopaths to treat them: Queen Elizabeth II and Pope Pius...
Lamp Oil Internally. Way back in the Thurber cousinhood there was Dr. Beall. a homeopath in a plug hat, who believed in "small doses of mild drugs, a heavy meal three times a day, a good cigar after each one, a little whisky to regulate the heart, a cheerful disposition to relax the system, a healthy skepticism to clear the mind of notions, and a sane moderation in exercise and bathing, either of which could kill a man if he didn't watch out." Doc Beall's most common prescription was lamp oil taken internally. He took...
Thousands of Hollanders were ready to swear that Simon W. J. Schaasberg, whose shingle proclaimed him a "psychometrist-homeopath," had cured them of every complaint in the book, from stuffy noses and hemorrhoids to pneumonia and cancer. For years, the sick had packed the tiny front room of Shaasberg's house in Maastricht. The street was sometimes blocked by cars and chartered buses that brought patients from afar. No less remarkable than his popularity were Shaasberg's methods...
...advisers of his own choosing. In all but their most private affairs, Britain's constitutional monarchs do what they are told, but the government has no say in their choice of doctors. As Duke of York and then as King, George VI took as his family doctor a homeopath, Sir John Weir, who had attended both his mother and elder brother Edward. A genial Scot with a sporran full of jokes on himself and his countrymen, 72-year-old Sir John is flanked by two other family physicians: Welsh-born Dr. Daniel Davies, 51, a topnotch pathologist...