Clemens Maria Franz von Bonninghausen (1785-1864). Lawyer, botonist, German nobility.
Contracts tuberculosis, orthodox medical treatment fails,
writes a farewell letter to his botanist friend Weihe,
who is the first Homeopathic physician
in the province of Rhineland and Westphalia,
who cures him (with Pulsatilla).
In 1830 meets Hahnemann and in communication with him from then on.
Two sons become homoeopaths.
Eldest son marries the adopted daughter of Hahnemann’s widow in Paris.
On Hahnemann’s request, Clemens writes:
Constantine Hering (1800-1880). Master Homeopath. German, moves to America.
While he is a medical student in Leipzig,
a faculty physician too busy to write asks him to author a book
disclosing the fallacy of homoeopathy.
While going through Hahnemann’s works for the sake of making quotations,
he comes across the famous "nota bene for my reviewers",
which says, among other things:
“The doctrine appeals not only chiefly, but solely, to the verdict of experience
... repeat the experiment, it cries aloud.
Repeat them carefully and accurately and you will find
the doctrine confirmed at every step
... and it does what no medical doctrine, no system of physic,
no so-called therapeutics ever did or could do,
it insists upon being judged by the result.”
Hering decides to accept the challenge and begins to assemble
the results of Homeopathy, sufficiently so that when,
in dissecting a cadaver and he inflicts upon himself a wound
which infects so that he is advised to have his hand amputated,
instead he seeks consultation with a homoeopath, who cures him.
He drops the book commission. In his doctoral thesis,
"On the Medicine of the Future", Hering declares himself to be a homoeopath.
In 1848 he charters the Hahnemann Medical College of Pennslyvania,
which trains over 3500 Homeopaths.
He is considered the Father of American Homeopathy.
James Tyler Kent (1849-1916). Master Homeopath. American.
Allopath (M.D.), naturopath (N.D.), and chiropractor (D.C.),
in Saint Louis, in 1876, when his wife becomes seriously ill,
these then conventional disciplines fail,
and she is cure by him with Homoeopathy.
He converts his practice to Homoeopathy exclusively.
At the Homeopathic Medical School of Philadelphia,
with students he sees over 18,900 patients in 1896.
Three of his works are considered core literature of the healing discipline.
His repertory replaces Bonninghausen’s as the most widely used,
a reputation which it enjoys to this day.
Other prestigious repertories, like Vithoulkas and Schroyens, actually are addenda to his.
George Vithoulkas (1932- ). Master Homeopath. Greek.
His parents are killed by Nazis. In his late teens,
suffering from a painful and debilitating degenerative vertebral disease,
he is told there is no relief except possibly surgery,
which might leave him paralysed.
He stumbles on some Homeopathy books, buys many more,
studies, and cures himself. Practices, teaches,
and is establishing schools around the world.
He has treated over 100,000 patients, and is
one of the most positive forces in the dissemination of Homeopathy in the world today.