10/09/2021
WOMEN HOMEOPATHS :
1. Dr. Margaret Lucy Tyler-
(1857-1943)
Was born in England in 1857, the daughter of Sir Henry Tyler, Director of the London Homeopathic Hospital.
From 1908 to 1913, she lived in Chicago, where she learned homeopathy from the great Kent. She became an enthusiastic student and contributed greatly to the spread of his methods in England after returning there.
From 1913 to 1943, she was Dean of the Royal London Hospital, where she specialized in the treatment of children with learning disabilities.
In 1932, she founded the journal “Homoeopathy.“ In 1942, she published the “Homeopathic Drug Pictures,” one of her most famous works.
Dr. Margaret Lucy Tyler was a graduate of both Edinburgh and Brussels Universities. She worked at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital for forty years. Her specialty was in treating the mentally challenged children. Tyler was a close associate of J.H. Clarke. She was author of wrote, The Correspondence Course on Homoeopathy. It was designed for those who could not attend the lectures at the Faculty of Homoeopathy in person.
She died on the 21st of June, 1943 at age of 86 years. The day before, she had been working in the hospital.
Main works :
1. Homoeopathic Drug Pictures
2. Pointers to the Common Remedies
2. Dorothy Shepherd-
MD
(1885-1952)
Dr. Dorothy Shepherd grew up in South India where her father was a missionary. She studied medicine at Heidelberg medical school and graduated from Edinburgh. She was raised with homeopathic medicine and as a child had access to a copy of Hering's Domestic Physician.
Even though she grew up in a homeopathic household in England, at the age of ten she announced her intention to pursue allopathic medical studies. Only after her conventional medical training did she investigate the medicine of her childhood.
By her account,
"I heard about the Hering College in Chicago. The name Hering conjured up memories of a tattered old book. I must go and find out the truth which so long had evaded me."
In 1906 Dr. Shepherd went to Chicago and began her studies at the Hering Medical College. Her teachers were Dienst and Tomhagen, both pupils of James Tyler Kent.
When she returned to Europe Dr. Shepherd put her new skills in to practice.
"I must admit that homoeopathy has never let me down. Homoeopathy is a life-long study. It requires the burning of the midnight oil, but it is worthwhile."
Dr. Shepherd wrote several books on homeopathy, based on her clinical experience:
- Homoeopathy for the 1st Aider
- Magic of the Minimum Dose
- More Magic of the Minimum Dose
- A Physician's Posy
- Homeopathy in Epidemic Diseases
Some time in the 1940's Dr. Shepherd established a homoeopathic center in Bramshott. Little is known about it. She spent long hours providing homoeopathic care to the poor in London and was well known for her service and staunch support of homeopathy.
On November 15, 1952, after 45 years of service to homeopathy, Dr. Shepherd passed on. Her contributions to homeopathy through her practice and published writings helped bridge the gap during the lean years of homeopathy in the 1900s.
As WW11 rolled around and trauma became a customary fair, Dorothy Shepherd wholly depended on her new medicine entirely. Since Dr. Shepherd advanced to using homeopathy full time, she never reverted to the “ways of old” again. Having a full staff at her call, she taught and instructed them in the homeopathic protocols for all emergencies including pre and post operative procedures. Her conventional antiseptics were replaced with Calendula, her protocol for broken bones was to administer Arnica, then set the bone. Conventional analgesics that carried side effects were replaced by Hypericum, Arnica and Ledum. Fever cases were given Belladonna, psychological trauma was treated with Aconite and Gelsemium. And her case load wasn’t light. London and surrounding areas where she practiced were under frequent bombings, so her experience was like working in a MASH unit, only with ill prepared civilians…’
3. Elizabeth Wright Hubbard-
(February 18, 1896 – May 22, 1967) was an American physician and homeopath best known for leadership and editorial work in the field of homeopathy.
Born in New York City Dr. Hubbard was educated at the Horace Mann School, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She was introduced to homeopathy while traveling in Europe after her graduation from Barnard College.
In 1917 Dr. Hubbard began her studies at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. This was the first class to admit women and she was one of the first three women to graduate in 1921. She was also the first female intern at Bellevue Hospital in New York, where she rode the night emergency ambulance.
Dr. Hubbard was fortunate to have spent two years in Geneva, Switzerland studying with Pierre Schmidt. When she returned to Boston she opened up her first practice. Her writings, lectures, and seminars made her reputation on the international level. In 1945 she served as president of the International Hahnemannian Association.
From 1959-1961 she was president of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the first woman to hold that post. For many years she was Editor of the 'Homoeopathic Recorder' and subsequently Editor of the 'Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy'. Dr. Hubbard also taught at the AFH postgraduate homeopathic school.
The quintessence of her vast homeopathic experience and insight was distilled and formulated in her most well known publication, A Brief Study Course in Homoeopathy. This compilation of articles covers her method of taking the case, the evaluation of symptoms, and repertorization.
In addition to her family, practice, writing, and teaching, Dr. Hubbard was an important figure within the Anthroposophical Society of America. She facilitated the implementation of religious and educational components of European Anthroposophy in the United States.
Dr. Hubbard was a 'large' woman with a forceful presence. From the accounts of people that knew her she was a skilled teacher and a thoughtful writer. Though she did not discuss homeopathy with lay people she was always ready to explain homeopathic principles and practice to her allopathic colleagues.
Dr. Hubbard worked to the end. In the middle of a consultation she had a stroke from which she never recovered. She died 2 days afterwards.
Publications:
- Homoeopathy as Art and Science, Ed. Maesimund B. Panos, MD, and Della des Rosiers, Beaconsfield Publishers Ltd, Beaconsfield, U.K. 1990 (ISBN 0-906584-26-4)
- A Brief Study Course in Homeopathy,Roy & Company; 3rd ed. (enlarged) edition (1959), and Indian Edition (1977)
4. Margery Grace Blackie-
(CVO MD, FFHom)
(4 February 1898 – 24 August 1981) was a British doctor of medicine who was appointed as the first woman royal physician to Queen Elizabeth II.
Early life :
Margery Grace Blackie was born at Redbourn, Hertfordshire, on 4 February 1898, the youngest of ten children of Robert Blackie (c.1852–1936), who was independently wealthy, and his wife, Elizabeth (d. 1941), daughter of Rowland Rees, the civil engineer and Mayor of Brighton. Her uncle, by marriage, was James Compton-Burnett, a noted Homeopathic Doctor.
She studied medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women, and qualified as a doctor in 1923. In 1924, she joined the staff at the London Homeopathic Hospital.
At the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, Blackie was an assistant physician from 1927 to 1957, and spent some of that time (1929 - 1937) as assistant to Dr. Douglas Borland in the Children's Department.
In 1968, Dr. Blackie succeeded physician Sir John Weir GCVO to become Physician to Queen Elizabeth II, the first woman to hold this position. Other notable patients include Lady Julia Namier.
On 24 August 1981, she died peacefully from a stroke, and was buried on 29 August at Castle Hedingham.
Publications :
- The Patient, Not the Cure: The Challenge of Homoeopathy (London : Macdonald and Jane's, 1976)
- Classical Homeopathy (Beaconsfield: Beaconsfield Publishers, 1986)
