Where are the libraries of all the old homeopathic doctors of the past?
University of Michigan, National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Ohio
State University, National Library of Medicine, National Center for Homeopathy,
Hahnemann Archives, Chris Ellithorp, William Kirtsos, Richard Moskowitz,
Dana Ullman (USA), Faculty of Homoeopathy, Glasgow Homoeopathic Library,
Francis Treuherz (UK), Bosch Institute, KH Gypser (Germany), Universitry
of Utrecht (Netherlands), Jacques Baur, Boiron Institute (France), Pierre
Schmidt Collection (Switzerland), André Saine (Canada)
and now...
The Homœopathic Archives
Journals
The
collection includes 2020 volumes including
- almost a complete run of IHA Transactions
- Homeopathic Recorders
- a good number of the Journal of the American Institute for Homeopathy (assorted from 1909 and complete from the early 1940s to present),
- a number of AIH Transactions,
- several copies of Kent's Homoeopathician and Journal of Homoeopathics,
- a number of other journals (Pacific Journal of Homeopathy, North American Journal of Homeopathy, The Hahnemannian, The Layman Speaks)
Books
The
books include a number of Organons (3rd edition in German, 4th
Edition from 1836— translated by Hering, and an assortment of 5th
and 6th editions), A full set of Allen's, Hering's, Clarke's, Gentry's,
and Hughes' materia medica, a number of smaller repertories (Winterburn,
Millspaugh, Santee, Douglas, Lee, etc.) and many books that bear the signatures
of previous owners— Hering, Nash, Roberts, E. Carleton, Robert Cooper,
J. H. Clarke, etc.
There are a number of old catalogues from pharmacies including a listing of remedies made by
- Boericke and Tafel,
- Ehrhart and Karl,
- Bernhardt Fincke,
- John A. Borneman, and
- Samuel Swan.
Manuscripts
There
are a number of original manuscripts Bell on Diarrhea and several
proving notebooks from Malcom and (right) Donald MacFarlan.Remedies
1000
different remedies in varying potencies, all on number 10 granules (or smaller)
came from a variety of sources. The large part came from Edmund Carleton.
Many came from William Kaercher, the son-in-law of Bernhardt Fincke—
who made them, and the remainder came from the collections of Boericke
and Tafel, Elizabeth Wright-Hubbard, and HA Roberts. Many of the remedies
are "DM" and "MM" potencies. Several are identified as being made on the
Kent or Allen potentiser at Ehrhart and Karl. There are several bottles
identified as "Jenichen" potencies. Ephemera
The
ephemera includes many photographs of homeopaths (the original of Kent in
the garden with his wife is here), old labels, letters from Elizabeth Wright
Hubbard, Julia M. Green, K. A. MacLaren, Rudolph Rabe, one letter from Kent,
two from Hering, postcards of Homoeopathic Hospitals, and more.Bottles
A
collection of old pharmacy bottles from Boericke & Tafel, Washington Homeopathic,
Luyties, Otis Clapp, Borneman, Karl Gruner,and Dresden. Above, Dunham
potencies from Smith's Pharmacy in New York.Kits
Several
old kits: a wooden box from Boericke & Tafel, a B&T Leather Kit for physicians
from 1939, kits from turn of the century physicians, and a kit (right) from
the Leipzig Homeopathic Pharmacy, circa 1840.