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The NHS should not fund homoeopathy, as it's no more than a placebo, says Max Pemberton

The NHS should not fund homoeopathy, as it's no more than a placebo, says Max Pemberton

I was dismayed but not surprised by your article "School trips suffer due to lack of teacher cover" (3 March ). The difficulties of covering for teachers out on school trips should not deter schools from running them, nor should the current irrational approach to risk. Contrary to media coverage, the risks associated with school trips are in fact small. Too often unconsidered are the enriching ...

David William Witton ?1788 – ?1856 was a London Merchant of the firm D W Witton and Co, Vice Chairman of the Baptist Missionary Society West African Company, a Trustee of the London Homeopathic Hospital, and a Steward at the Annual Festival in aid of the funds of the Charity, and in commemoration of the opening of the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1851,

Witton apparently knew Lajos Kossuth, from his travels in Hungary,

Witton lived at 2 Crosby Square, London, and at Church Street, Edmonton, and at Cambridge Terrace, Edgeware Road, and at Great St. Helens and Belle View House Richmond,

The West African Company was based at Levant House, St. Helens Place, London, was one of the primary agents in the development of Fernado Po between 1836 and 1843, and was primary involved with the resettlement of freed slaved from the West Indies in Africa,

After abolishing their slave trade, from 1827 to 1843 the British leased bases at Port Clarence (modern Malabo) and San Carlos (on Fernando Po) for their anti-slavery patrols. In March 1843, Juan Jose Lerena planted the Spanish flag in Malabo, ending British influence on the island.

D W Witton and Co operated at 63, Fenchurch Street, and at 13 Camomile Street, partners David William Witton and John George Lacy, hardwaremen and gun makers, who supplied carbines to the British government,

The Annual Festival in aid of the funds of the Charity, and in commemoration of the opening of the London Homeopathic Hospital established in London, will be held at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate street, on Thursday, the 10th of April 1851, the anniversary of the birth of Samuel Hahnemann:

Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset 8th Duke of Beaufort in the chair.

STEWARDS: Henry William Paget Marquess of Anglesey, George Stanhope 6th Earl of Chesterfield, Arthur Algernon Capell 6th Earl of Essex, John Robert Townshend 1st Earl Sydney, John Gray 15th Lord Gray, Arthur de Vere Capell Viscount Malden, Francis Arthur Gordon, Lord Clarence Paget, Lord Alfred Paget, Culling Charles Smith, Marmaduke Blake Sampson, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Nathaniel Barton, J. Askew, H Banister, H Batemann, Capt. Branford, F Blake, Hugh Cameron, Captain Chapman, H Cholmondeley, John Burgh Crampern, Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, W. Dutton, Edward Esdaile, W. M. Fache, Fr. Fuller, H Goez, John Gosnell, G Hallett, Edward Hamilton, J Huggins, P Hughes, John Peake Knight, Joseph Kidd, Thomas Robinson Leadam, Thomas Mackern, Victor Massol, J Mayne, Jas Bell Metcalfe, C T P Metcalfe, Samuel Thomas Partridge, T Piper, W Piper, R Pope, Henry Reynolds, A Robinson, Henry Rosher, C J Sanders, W Scorer, Rittson Southall, T Spicer, J Smith, C Snewin, C Trueman, Thomas Uwins, W. Watkins, J Wisewould, D W Witton, Stephen Yeldham, J G Young,

The responsibility of Stewards is limited to the dinner ticket, 21s., and gentlemen who will kindly undertake the office are respectfully requested to forward their names to any of the Stewards; or to the Hon. Secretary at the Hospital. 32. Golden-square.  Ralph Buchan, Hon. Sec.

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Leath and Ross were the first manufacturers of homeopathic medicines in Britain. James Leath began to publish homeopathic literature in 1831. Frederick Ross joined him in 1855, and Leath and Ross Homeopathic Chemists, wholesale and retail outlet for books, remedies, remedy cases and associated products in Britian and across the World, became Chemists by Appointment to the London Homeopathic Hospital,

By 1843, James Leath’s Homeopathy Explained and Objections Answered had sold so many copies, The Medical Times felt the need to come out to censor it,

Frederick Ross, President of the Homeopathic Pharmaceutical Society,

James Leath established his publishing company 1835, and together with Frederick Ross, they operated at 5 St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, and in Vere Street, London, and at 58 Duke Street, Grosvenor Sqaure, London, and by 1917 the firm was located at 317 High Road, Brondesbury, London, and at 295 High Road, Brondesbury, London, NW6, Leath and Ross were still operating in 1941,

James Leath’s Obituary is in The British Homeopathic Review, Volume 28 in 1884,

Leath and Ross published Homeopathy Explained and Objections Answered, Plain directions for the treatment of common complaints and homeopathic…, The treatment of common complaints by simple drugs homeopathically prepared, and homeopathic medical directory, A Summary of the Principles of Homeopathy, and they also published The British Journal of Homeopathy Volume 1, the first writings on homeopathy in Britain by William Laidler Leaf, and Paul Francois Curie, including the Materia Medica Pura edited by Charles Julius Hempel, and a very great many of the early books on homeopathy printed in Britain,

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THE recession is hitting animal lovers hard, with nine out of ten refusing treatment for pets, as recommended by vets, because they cannot afford it, with almost six in ten

James Clifton Brown JP 1841 – 1917 was a British Liberal Party MP for Horsham, a soldier, Colonel of the 2nd Brigade, Lancashire Division, Royal Artillery, Justice of the Peace, and High Sheriff of Sussex,

Clifton Brown and his wife were advocates and sponsors of homeopathy, politically active in the cause of homeopathy, they gave talks in support of homeopathy, they were major sponsors of The Convalescent Home in Eastbourne, and of the London Homeopathic Hospital,

The Convalescent Home in Eastbourne, For 15 Women and Girls and 5 Children – 20 Beds, 36, Enys Road, corner of Enys and Carew Roads (nearly opposite the Princess Alice Memorial Hospital):

See the website of Homeopathe International by Peter Morrell and Sylvain Cazalet. A Convalescent Home more than any other requires a woman’s help and guidance, and the Hospital was particularly fortunate in securing the active efforts and munificence of Mrs. Clifton Brown, who, together with William Vaughan Morgan, founded the Homeopathic Convalescent Home at Eastbourne.

The Home was opened on Saturday, August 25, 1888. To the indefatigable efforts of the chairman, William Vaughan Morgan, in the foundation and organisation of the institution, and to his indomitable energy and influence with other kind friends, the existence of the Home is due, and in the establishment of this new institution a fresh debt was added to those which the cause and friends of homeopathy already owed to him.

It is interesting at the present day to recall the names of some of the generous donors who assited in making the Home possible, many of whom have unfortunately now passed away: Hugh Cameron, who assisted at the foundation of the London Homeopathic Hospital itself and rallied his friends to help in the establishment of the Home by donations amounting to over £1,100; Mrs. Clifton Brown, whose munificent gift of £1,000 at once made the establishment of the Home possible; Mrs. William Vaughan Morgan, Miss J. Durning Smith, Miss Barton, Miss Isabella Barton, Mr. and Mrs Frank Smart, James Spicer, the Earl of Dysart, Henry Tate, Miss Houldsworth, William Debenham, Mr. Maurice Powell, Miss C. A. Stilwell and Mrs. Whateley Willis, were among a large number of liberal donors to the Foundation Fund.

The total amount received in donations, including the proceeds of a concert at the Duke of Westminster’s London residence, was £3,251. This amount enabled the Board to purchase the lease of the house and furnish it, and also meet the unavoidable expenses of its organisation and establishment, without dawing on the subscription list…. It is maintained by annual subscriptions and is preserved from debt by the income from a legacy left to it by William Vaughan Morgan.

William Vaughan Morgan Treasurer 1875-1889. Chairman of the Board of Management 1888 to his death in 1892 (See the website of Homeopathe International by Peter Morrell and Sylvain Cazalet).

He suggested at the 39th Annual General Meeting the desirability of pulling down the old Great Ormond Street Hospital and building the present modern Hospital, and contributed £ 3,000 to the Building Fund.

This increase, without exaggeration by leaps and bounds, naturally entailed a corresponding increase in the cost of maintenance. The expenditure for the first year in Golden Square was £600; while that for the years 1855-59 was nearly £500 per mouth, or about £6,000 per annum. (The expenditure for last year, 1913, in the present enlarged hospital of 163 beds, was £13,359).

The building, as it was then, had been adapted from three very old houses, and was, after all that had been done for it in the way of reconstruction and sanitation, very antiquated, as compared with the more modern hospital buildings of that time. Large sums had been spent upon it, a constant outlay for repairs being necessary to maintain it in working order.

In the year 1890 the Board, under the chairman ship of William Vaughan Morgan, decided that a special effort should be made to provide a building more suitable for the work of the Hospital and worthy of the science of Homeopathy. Accordingly some of the best friends of the hospital were approached.

A generous lady, Miss J. Durning Smith, who had for many years munificently supported the Hospital, signified her intention to contribute the sum of £10,000 under the pseudonym of  “A Friend well known to the Hospital.”

William Vaughan Morgan himself contributed £3,000. A nobleman, who desired to be anonymous, promised £2,000,  James Epps gave £2,000, Miss Barton and Miss Isabella Barton £1,000 each and Colonel Clifton Brown, £1,000.

James Clifton Brown was the second son of Alexander Brown and his wife Sarah Benedict Brown, daughter of James Brown. His paternal grandfather was the banker and merchant Sir William Brown 1st Baronet, and his younger brother was the Liberal politician Sir Alexander Brown 1st Baronet. Brown was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts.

He was elected to the House of Commons at a by-election in 1876 for Horsham in Sussex, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1880 general election. Brown served as lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Lancashire Royal Garrison Artillery and on his retirement in 1884, was granted the rank of an honorary colonel of the 2nd Brigade, Lancashire Division. He was a Justice of the Peace and in 1888, he was appointed High Sheriff of Sussex.

On 21 March 1866, he married Amelia Rowe, daughter of Charles Rowe. They had ten children, four daughters and six sons. His oldest son Howard represented the same constituency as his father, and his fifth son Douglas was later elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

James Clifton Brown b.13 February 1841, d.5 January 1917. He was the son of Alexander Brown and Sarah Benedict Brown. He married Amelia Rowe, daughter of Charles Rowe, on 21 March 1866. He died on 5 January 1917 at age 75. James Clifton Brown graduated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, with a Master of Arts (M.A.). He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.). He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Horsham between 1876 and 1880. He gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in the service of the 2nd Brigade, Lancashire Division, Royal Artillery. He lived at Holmbush, Sussex, England. Children of James Clifton Brown and Amelia Rowe; Elsie Clifton Brown b. 9 Sep 1861, d. 2 Dec 1958; Howard Clifton Brown b. 3 Apr 1868, d. 11 Sep 1946; Edward Clifton Brown b. 10 Feb 1870, d. 1 Nov 1944; Louisa Clifton Brown b. 10 Mar 1871, d. 18 Nov 1956; Vice-Admiral Francis Clifton Brown b. 10 Jul 1874, d. 6 Sep 1963; Mildred Clifton Brown b. 19 Feb 1876, d. 4 Apr 1949; Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st and last Viscount Ruffside b. 16 Aug 1879, d. 5 May 1958; Isla Clifton Brown b. 19 Dec 1883, d. 5 Feb 1971; Cedric Clifton Brown b. 10 Dec 1887, d. 22 Oct 1968,

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Charles Meymott 1813 – 1867 MRCS 1838, LSA 1836, was a British orthodox physician, Surgeon at Horsemonger Lane Jail, Surgeon Superintendent to HM Emigration Committee, who converted to homeopathy,

Meymott practiced at Kendrick House, London Road, Reading, Berks, and at 59 Stamford Street, London,

Meymott was also a cricketer, and he migrated to Australia, where he became a Physician at the Sydney Homeopathic Dispensary, (see http://www.homeopathyoz.org/downloads/Hist-AusHomIndividuals-M-R.pdf),

Meymott submitted articles to various publications, including Facts Relative to Mesmerism, and he wrote New truths and their reception: a lecture delivered at the School of Arts, Sydney, on the 17th August, 1858,

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On 11-12th June 1855, a fund raising Bazaar was held for the London Homeopathic Hospital at the Riding School of the Cavalry Barracks in Kensington, attended by the Marchioness of Aylesbury, the Duchess of Beaufort, Augusta and Honora Cadogan, Augusta Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Mary of Cambridge, the Countess of Craven, Mrs. Crisp, Mrs. Drysdale, Lady Ebury, Mrs. Fussell, Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Joseph Hoar, Baron Knesebech, Mrs. Leadam, Miss Meymott, Mrs. Moore, Viscountess Newport, Lady Rokeby, Mrs. Rosher, Alphonse de Rothschild, the Duchess of St. Arpino, Grand Duchess Mecklenburg Strelitz, Mrs. Wilkinson, Lady Willoughby de Broke, the Countess of Wilton, Mrs. Yeldham – on sale were items donated to the cause by Princess Alice, the Duchess of Kent, the Princess of Prussia, and many others,

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Charles Kennedy Elliott ?1908 – 1993 MB, BCh, MFHom, (photo used courtesy  of Homéopathe International) was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become the homeopathic Physician of Queen Elizabeth II, and Editor of Classical Homeopathy,

Charles Kennedy Elliott was the homeopathic practitioner of Marjorie Grace Blackie, and he attended her in her last illness, assisted by Frank Johnson.

Charles Kennedy Elliott succeeded Marjorie Grace Blackie as Royal Homeopath by appointment to the British Royal Family,

Charles Kennedy Elliott’s Obituary is in The British Homeopathic Journal 82(2):151-2, 1993,

Charles Kennedy Elliott wrote Bach Flower Remedies to the Rescue, and he edited Classical Homeopathy by Marjorie Grace Blackie alongside Frank Johnson, and he reviewed Robert Gibson Miller’s Studies of Homeopathic Remedies in the British Homeopathic Journal Volume 76, Number 4, October 1987 ,

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Cancer is a very difficult and dangerous disease, which kills homeopaths, naturopaths and allopaths alike with impunity.

There is evidence that cancer becomes the main focus for illness in the human population with the advent of environmental changes and major changes in dietary habit in recent times, though contact with carcinogenic agents is not a modern phenomena, we are more likely to be in contact with these today.

There are a very few cases of cancer known from the archaeological record, mostly mummified Egyptian priests who were known to be exposed to poisons and possibly metalworking, and thus exposed to toxic fumes or ingestion. Cancer is not described commonly in our historical medical literature until the explosion of cases witnessed at the dawn of our current industrial era.

The treatment of cancer is a litigious area, and it is illegal to claim a ‘cure for cancer’, legislation which affects orthodox and alternative medicine comprehensively.

Nonetheless, many homeopaths have treated cancer in the past, before the current legislation, and the list below, though very far from complete, sets out the homeopathic history of the treatment of cancer.

1841 – Johann Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz, an Austrian General in Franz I’s military, was a patient of homeopath Johann Taubes Ritter von Lebenswarth and Christophe Hartung, a student of Samuel Hahnemann, on the recommendation of Friedrich Jaeger von Jaxtthal (who was  the physician of Klemens Wenzel Prince von Metternich), and the story of his cure of a cancerous tumour in his right eye was written up in Homeopathy Explained by John Henry Clarke in 1841, and in The British Journal of Homeopathy in 1843, and in many other homeopathic journals around the World. This famous cancer cure was responsible for the spread of homeopathy throughout Europe,

1845 – Harris Coulter page 60: The allopaths of course, reacted with horror but could only watch in frustrated impotence as they homeopaths raced ahead. By 1845, homeopathy had syphilis = syphilinum, gonorrhoea = medorrhinum, diptheria = diptherinum, cancer = carcinosin, and many others, all of which are still used widely today.

1850 – Jeanie Senior survived cancer for 27 years under the treatment of James Manby Gully, the first woman in Whitehall, Florence Nightingale told her she had been ‘a noble Army of one’,

1855 – C G Kallenbach wrote a case of uterine cancer he cured with kreosote,

1856 – Edmund William Gosse ’s father was Philip Henry Gosse who placed his wife Emily under the care of John Epps for her breast cancer after previously following the treatment plan of a mysterious Dr. F, but though she achieved some relief thereby, died in 1858, (Dr. F was later identified as Jesse Weldon Fell, an allopath who was one of the founders of the New York Academy of Medicine. Jesse Weldon Fell was dismissed from his profession for association with a Dr. Gilbert and his new cancer cure – this debacle resulted in Jesse Weldon Fell moving to England. In England, the allopaths rapidly took up with Jesse Weldon Fell’s cancer cure, incorporating it into The Middlesex Hospital where the allopaths experimented on the poor. Jesse Weldon Fell’s American associates remarked how startled they were that Jesse William Fell managed to work ’some hocus pocus’ over the authorities at The Middlesex Hospital in order to gain access to their patients, ably abetted by The Times, which published an article extolling Jesse Weldon Fell’s new cancer treatment, and of course The Lancet which praised the Consultants at The Middlesex Hospital for their initiative. The Lancet had to retract this praise when it became clear that Jesse Weldon Fell’s patients were dying from his ‘cure’. Emily Gosse died one month after her treatment by Jesse Weldon Fell.  The resultant storm which descended on Jesse Weldon Fell’s head as a result, caused The Lancet to turn a full circle in its attack, closely followed by the British Medical Journal. However, the staff at The Middlesex Hospital continued to defend Jesse Weldon Fell who rose to pre-eminence and fortune as a result. Jesse Weldon Fell returned to America a wealthy man, a friend to Abraham Lincoln),

1859 – Richard Tuthill Massy wrote Exract of a report from a Cancer Hospital,

1863 – Robert MacLimont was a student of John Pattison, a famous British orthodox physician and cancer specialist, affiliated with New York University, who converted to homeopathy, and had over thirteen years and 4000 cases of cancer to report on when he began to publish his reasearch, and he wrote  Cancer, and the new mode of treating it by Charles Henry Marston and Robert MacLimont (based on the research of John Pattison),

1866 – James George Hunt wrote On Cancer,

1866 – John Pattison had over thirteen years and 4000 cases of cancer to report on when he began to publish his research, he was the first person who used hydrastis in the treatment of cancer (in 1852), also advocated the use of Sanguinaria for the treatment of cancer, and he wrote Cancer: it’s nature and successful and comparatively painless treatment without the usual operation of the knife (in which he extols the virtue of calendula cream), Cancer: its true nature, treatment, & cure, A Short Practical Treatise on Cancer (in which he extols the virtue of hydrastis), An answer to the lecture delivered by T. Spencer Wells on cancer curers and cancer cures, The old methods of treating cancer compared with the new, Preface to seventh thousand of cases of cancer … treated with Dr. Pattison’s new remedy, Cases of cancer, lupus, and ulcers, treated with dr. Pattison’s new remedy, A second appendix to the successful treatment of cancer, The only successful and rational treatment of cancer yet known,

1871 – William Hitchman wrote “Syphilis, phthisis, scrofula, cancer, erysipelas and almost all diseases of the skin, have been conveyed, occasioned, or intensified by vaccination.”

1871 – Joseph Bell, the inspiration for the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, was a long time supporter of homeopathy who caused outrage when he converted to homeopathy. He wrote Case of Osteoid Cancer,

1871 – Charles Harrison Blackley wrote Notes on the Etiology of Cancer,

1872 – James Paget agreed with James Compton Burnett that the homeopathic remedy arsenicum was of use in cancer,

1872 – Lady Walpurga von Hohenthal Paget believed that Cesare Mattei had cured her husband of cancer and she became a staunch convert to electro homeopathy,

1874 – Robert Thomas Cooper was a great cancer doctor (alongside James Compton Burnett) and he maintained that in the treatment of such advanced and physical diseases the lower potencies and tinctures produce the best work. He was called ‘the man who can cure cancer,’ he clearly believed cancers to be the result of hidden ‘growth forces’ within the person very similar to the growth force in trees and other plants. He wrote Cancer and cancer symptoms,

1880 – Joseph Pettee Cobb was the teacher of Emile Herman Grubbe, who experimented with x-rays. The results of these experiments were so startling that homeopaths soon began to potentise these rays and pioneer the treatment of cancers with x-rays,

1884 – Richard Sandon Gutteridge wrote The distribution, nature, causes, and successful treatment of cancer: Without Operation and Without Opiates,

1893 - Reuben Ludlam referred Rose Lee, a woman with breast cancer to Emile Grubbe, who treated her with radiation therapy.

1896 – Emile Grubbe was the first person to use radiation treatment on a cancer patient when he discovered fractionated radiotherapy. Emile Grubbe was also the first to use lead as protection against x rays. Emile Grubbe is the originator of the Memorial Award of the Chicago Radioloical Society.

1900 – Sarah A Cole was one of the first to experiment with the treatment of cancer by the use of colored glass through which the sun’s rays were focused to the seat of the disease. She realized a very high percentage of cures in cases where the cancer was still confined to an area and before it had spread its tentacles throughout the entire system,

1902 – Gustave Adolphe Van den Berghe carefully recorded all the cases, many of cancer, which he treated between 1869 and 1902 on thousands of men, women and children from Belgium, the Netherlands and France,

1908 – Clarence Granville Hey contributed cases to Therapeutics of Cancer by John Henry Clarke,

1908 – Paul Francois Curie was the first person to study Radium, used in homeopathic form for safety. This study was to become a family affair when Paul Francois Curie’s grandson Pierre Curie and his wife Marie Curie conducted their experiments with radioactivity,

1908 – John Henry Clarke wrote The Cure of Tumours by Medicines: With Especial Reference to the Cancer Nosodes,

1909 – Eber Bradley claimed expertise in “obstetrics, extracting teeth, doctoring children, burns, old sores and cancerous ulcerations (with an) average of 600 patients per year” and about nine home visits daily.He commonly prescribed “golden seal root” for mouth cankers, turpentine and lard for chest colds.

1913 – Paul Degrais wrote Le Radium son emploi dans le Traitement du Cancer des angiomes, chéloïdes, tuberculoses locales et d’autres affections with Louis Wickham, and he inscribed a copy for Leon Vannier. The work also appeared in an English translation printed in London in the same year. It was preceded by the larger work Radiumthérapie; instrumentation, technique, traitement des cancers, chéloïdes, naevi, lupus, prurits, névrodermites, eczémas, applications gynécologiques (Paris, 1909),

1914 – Harold Wynne Thomas warned at the Homeopathic Congress in London in 1924 that the vast amount of salt added to our food contributed to cancer,

1917 – Edward Bach was diagnosed with stomach cancer, and lived for another 19 years,

1918 – Albert Wolff used ozone for colon cancer and cervical cancer,

1920 – Antoine Nebel studied the action of diluted tuberculin, which he courageously experienced in itself. He showed how the parasite which he attributes the origin of cancer. He managed to establish the theory became famous in the drainage pipe or by studying the regression of tumors under the influence of the homeopathic remedies. From 1910 to 1920 Antoine Nebel reported on the treatment of incurable cancer patients with a vaccine, which is practically identical with the Schmidt vaccine, in his book Les cycles dévolution des Parasites du cancre humain, which represents the results of twenty years of research. He observed that when he combined the micrococcus Doyen with Mucor racemosus,

1923 – Raphael Roche claimed to be able to cure cancer,

1924 – William Arbuthnot Lane 1st Baronet co wrote, endorsed and wrote the foreward to homeopath J Ellis Barker’s Cancer, how it is Caused, how it Can be Prevented, and he wrote the foreward to Maori Symbolism by Ettie A Rout (where he expounds his disgust of Western civilisation as it pertains to diet and lifestyle and its role in cancer and ill health). Speaking in the House of Commons: William Arbuthnot Lane 1st Baronet said ‘Cancer is a disease of civilisation. It is practically unknown to the primitive races leading primitive lives.

1926 – Leon Vannier published reports he called precancerous Cancériniques.

1926 – Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch was already advising those patients of his who had been operated on for cancer not to return to their original sleeping place for fear of environmental radiation,

1927 – Herbert George Wells recommended homeopathic treatment for his wife Jane when she was ill with cancer (I do not have her date of death),

1927 – R M Le Hunte Cooper, son of Robert Thomas Cooper, read The Cancer Problem before the International Homeopathic Congress,

1928 – Charles Mondain wrote A study of Blood Serum with reference to the Diagnosis of Precancerous Conditions,

1929 – Willis Alonzo Dewey wrote Cancer: A Summary of the Opinions of Eminent Medical and Surgical Experts,

1930 – George Henry Burford wrote Malignancy: The Increasing Plague Of The Century, The Problem Of Cancer, Homeopathy In Malignant Disease,

1931 – Mauritius Fortier Bernoville wrote The Homeopathic Treatment of Cancer, Cancer of the Stomach and Stomatitis,

1932 – J Ellis Barker wrote Cancer, the Surgeon and the Researcher, Cancer, how it is Caused, how it Can be Prevented with a foreward by William Arbuthnot Lane 1st Baronet, Cancer and the Black Man,

1932 – Erwin Liek wrote The Spread, Prevention, and Control of Cancer, where he argued that cancer was a disease of civilization, a “cultural disease” whose incidence was on the rise, and endorsed the view that cancer was rare among the primitive races of the world, and he was convinced that the growth of cancer could be traced to things like arsenic pesticides, artificial fertilizers, excessive smoking and drinking, and sexual promiscuity. People were getting too many X-rays, and stress from the rapid pace of modern life was weakening our overall bodily resistance, making us vulnerable to cancer. Faulty nutrition, in Erwin Liek’s view, was the single most important cause of cancer. In 1934, Erwin Liek wrote The Struggle against Cancer,

1939 – Sigmund Freud died (suicide) after battling oral cancer for 30 years, his doctor, Max Schur, was interested in homeopathy,

1939 – Cyril Meir Scott wrote Victory Over Cancer Without Radium or Surgery, Cancer Prevention: Fallacies and Some Reassuring Facts,

1941 – Henri Matisse was diagnosed with cancer, and became a patient of Pierre Vannier and survived for 14 years,

1945 – Norbert Glas founded St. Luke’s Medical Practice where he treated many cancer cases,

1946 – Arthur Hill Grimmer estimated that he treated several thousand cases of cancer during his career. Grimmer wrote Homeopathic Medicine and Cancer: The Philosophy and Clinical Experiences of … with Robin Murphy.

1947 – Mary Roberts Rinehart went public about her breast cancer, and after a radical mastectomy, she lived until 1958. Mary Roberts Rinehart, the ‘American Agatha Christie‘, was also a homeopathic nurse, and married to a homeopathic doctor,

1950 – Ardeshir Kavasji Boman Behram conducted research into the treatment of cancer using peptides from a simple non-toxic substance, which could be administered orally and was found to shrink malignant tumours in mice. About 25 years ago he began to work with Michael Tisdale at Aston University to isolate the active ingredient, but it was not possible to proceed to the clinical evaluation of a single antitumour agent because of the lack of funding,

1953 – George Percy Grainger was diagnosed with prostate cancer, an advocate of homeopathy, and a strict vegetarian, and he was a keen runner and had a fanatical fitness regime, he died in 1961,

1958 – Donald MacDonald Foubister was responsible for the describing and the definition of the Cancer miasm in 1958, and he was also the first person to use folliculinum,

1959 – Malcolm Rae was diagnosed with cancer, and lived another 20 years,

1960 – Aldous Huxley, whose mother Mary Augusta Ward was an advocate of homeopathy and a practicing homeopath, was diagnosed with cancer – he died in 1963,

1976 – Homeopath Thomas Maughan died of lung cancer,

1988 – C Everett Koop published his Report on Nutrition and Health, where he pointed out that “dietary imbalances” are the leading preventable contributors to premature death in the U.S. and recommended the expansion of nutrition and lifestyle modification education for all health care professionals. This was borne out by the Centers for Disease Control which state that 54% of heart disease, 37% of cancer, 50% of cerebrovascular disease and 49% of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) is preventable through lifestyle modification,

2007 – The Liverpool Homeopathic Hospital, Liverpool Department of Homeopathic Medicine, Old Swan Health Centre, St Oswald’s Street, Old Swan, Liverpool L13 2GA Phone: 0151 285 3707 – This hospital runs a complementary cancer clinic offering treatment with homeopathic remedies and Iscador. There is also a branch at Liverpool Homeopathic Hospital, Department of Homeopathic Medicine, Mossley Hill Hospital, Park Avenue, Liverpool, L18 8BU Phone: 0151 285 3707,

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Felice Orsini 1819 – 1858 was an Italian revolutionary and leader of the Carbonari who tried to assassinate Napoleon III,

Felice Orsini was a friend of John Epps, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Lajos Kossuth, Giuseppe Mazzini, Peter Stuart,

Felice Orsini was born at Meldola in Romagna, then part of the Papal States.

His biographer, the Englishman Michael St. John Packe, describes him:

According to the prosecutors in his trial, Felice Orsini was born a conspirator. Whether that can be believed or not, quite certainly his mother had no notion of it. She was a gentle, cultivated girl of twenty, Florentine, graceful, kind and true. She suckled him and crooned at him in the usual manner. She treated him as, a year or so before, she had treated his elder sister Rosina, as she would likewise treat, in three years’ time, his younger brother, Leonidas, all with the best results. She did not realize that his infant thoughts were of a repressed and furtive trend; that when he waved his wooden spoon and gurgled, he was marshalling secret armies in craggy places, or that his wondering unfathomable eyes, jet black and shining, screened from her view a world of incipient revolution, wherein already he was blowing up Emperors and dethroning Popes. Yet such, maintained the prosecution, was the case.

Orsini was encouraged to become a priest, but he abandoned that lifestyle and became an ardent liberal, joining the Giovane Italia, a society founded by Giuseppe Mazzini.

Orsini was arrested in 1844 along with his father, implicated in revolutionary plots and condemned to imprisonment for life. The new pope, Pius IX set him free, and he led a company of young Romagnols in the First War of Italian Independence in 1848, distinguishing himself in the engagements at Treviso and Vicenza.

Orsini was elected member of the Roman Constituent Assembly in 1849, and after the fall of the Second Roman Republic he conspired against the papal autocracy in the interest of the Mazzinian party.

Giuseppe Mazzini sent him on a secret mission to Hungary, but he was arrested in 1854 and imprisoned at Mantua. He escaped a few months later using a tiny saw to cut through two grids of bars, climbed out of the window 100 feet above ground and slid down using a rope he had made of bedsheets. Passing as a sympathetic peasant, he managed to get past the Austrian guards.

In 1856, he briefly visited Great Britain and received a favorable welcome. The daily news had published the first English translation of his tale of escape. He published The Memoirs and Adventures of Felice Orsini in 1856. In 1857, he also published an account of his prison experiences in English under the title of The Austrian Dungeons in Italy, which led to a rupture between him and Giuseppe Mazzini. Then he began to negotiate with Ausonio Franchi, editor of the Ragione of Turin, which he proposed to make the organ of pure republicans.

Orsini became convinced that Napoleon III was the chief obstacle to Italian independence and the principal cause of the anti-liberal reaction throughout Europe. He plotted his assassination with the logic that after the emperor’s death, France would rise in revolt and the Italians could exploit the situation to revolt themselves.

He went to Paris in 1857 to conspire against the emperor.

At the end of 1857, Orsini briefly visited England, where he contacted gunsmith Joseph Taylor and asked him to make six copies of a bomb of Orsini’s own design; it would explode on impact and used fulminate of mercury as an explosive. The bomb was tested in Sheffield and Devonshire with the aid of French radical Simon Bernard.

Satisfied, Orsini returned to Paris with the bombs and contacted other conspirators, Giuseppe Pieri, Antonio Gomez and Carlo di Rudio (later changed to Charles DeRudio).

On the evening of 14 January 1858, as the Emperor and Empress were on their way to the theatre in the Rue Le Peletier, the precursor of the Opera Garnier, to see Rossini’s William Tell, Orsini and his accomplices threw three bombs at the imperial carriage. The first bomb landed among the horsemen in front of the carriage. The second bomb wounded the animals and smashed the carriage glass. The third bomb landed under the carriage and seriously wounded a policeman who was hurrying to protect the occupants. Eight people were killed and 142 wounded, though the emperor and empress were unhurt.

Napoleon III, the first modern European politician, realized that he and Eugénie had to proceed to the performance and appear in their box.

Orsini himself was wounded on the right temple and stunned. He tended to his wounds and returned to his lodgings, where police found him the next day.

The attempted assassination actually increased Napoleon III’s popularity. Because the bombs had been made and tested in England, it caused a brief anti-British furor in France because of suspicion of British involvement. Napoleon III refused to escalate the situation and it eventually defused.

On 11 February Orsini wrote his famous letter to Napoleon III, in which he exhorted him to take up the cause of Italian independence — a cause Napoleon III had already supported in his youth. Modern historians have even suspected that Napoleon III wrote some of the letter himself. He addressed another letter to the youth of Italy and condemned political assassination.

Orsini was sentenced to death and went calmly to the guillotine on 13 March 1858.

His accomplices were also sentenced; Giuseppe Pieri was executed, Antonio Gomez was condemned to hard labour for life and Charles DeRudio was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment at Devil’s Island. Charles DeRudio escaped from Devil’s Island and later went to America, where he became an officer in the United States Army, was appointed to the U.S. 7th Cavalry, and participated in—and survived—the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn.

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