January-2021 - LEGENDS ABOUT HOMOEOPATHY - Literary Scholars & Musicians

1. LEGENDS ABOUT HOMOEOPATHY
LITERARY SCHOLARS & MUSICIANS
Dr. Subrata K. Banerjea,
GOLD MEDALIST
B.H.M.S. (Honours In Nine Subjects Of Calcutta University)
Fellow: Society of Homoeopaths, U.K.
Fellow: Homoeopathic Medical Association of the United Kingdom
Fellow: Association of Natural Medicine, U.K
Fellow: Akademie Homoopathischer Deutscher Zentralverein (Germany)
Director: Bengal Allen Medical Institute
Principal: Allen College of Homoeopathy, Essex, England
“SAPIENS”, 382, BADDOW ROAD, GREAT BADDOW,
CHELMSFORD, ESSEX CM2 9RA, ENGLAND
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2. LITERARY SCHOLARS
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3. ANTON CHEKHOV (1860 – 1904)
Three of Chekhov’s stories make reference to
homoeopathy. In “Ariadne” (1895), he spoke of a
neighbor, a former landowner who was a homoeopathic
doctor. Chekhov’s short story “”The Malingerers” (1885)
has as its lead character a homoeopathic doctor. The
story focuses on one landowner who has sunk into
poverty. He expresses extreme gratitude for her
prescribing three doses of a homoeopathic medicine to
him.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov

4. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859 – 1930)
Author of the Sherlock Holms detective stories. In Lost World, the
narrator is a reporter who bravely decides to interview the violent
professor, and a physician friend of this reporter advises him to take
along a new remedy that is reported to be “better than arnica” for
dealing with the injuries he is sure to suffer from the encounter
(Chapter 3). But then, the narrator of the story asserts, “Some people
have such extraordinary notions of humour” (as though there could
ever be something better than arnica). Doyle originally trained as a
medical doctor, but his frustration, bitterness, and even cynicism is
well expressed in his great Holmes adventure, “The Adventure of the
Resident Patient,” a story in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle

5. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856 – 1950)
Shaw is the only person ever to have won both a Nobel Prize
(Literature in 1925) and an Academy Award (Best Screen-play for
Pygmalion in 1938). In his play The Doctor's Dilemma (1906).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw
In the play's preface, Shaw wrote:
"The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is
whether they are lucrative to doctors or not. It would be difficult to
cite any proposition less obnoxious to science than that advanced
by Hehnemann, to wit, that drugs which in large doses produced
certain symptoms, counteract them in very small doses, just as in
modern practice it is found that a sufficiently small inoculation
with typhoid rallies our powers to resist the disease instead of
prostrating us with it.

6. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856 – 1950) (Contd. …)
But Hahnemann and his followers were frantically persecuted for a
century by generations of apothecary-doctors whose incomes
depended on the quantity of drugs they could induce their patients
to swallow. These two cases of ordinary vaccination and
homoeopathy are typical of all the rest.“
In 1932 Shaw wrote an essay, Doctors' Delusions, Crude
Criminology and Sham Education, which included a story about
the homoeopathic treatment he received for a hydrocele. This
accumulation of fluid around the testicle normally requires
surgery, but Shaw experienced a rapid cure without recurrence.
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7. RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861 – 1941)
"..It is not merely a collection of a few medicines, but a new
Science with a rational philosophy as its base. We require
more scientific interest and enquiry into the mater with
special stress upon the Indian Environments.“
In 1936, he wrote:
“I have long been an ardent believer in the science of
homoeopathy, and I feel happy that it has got now a greater
hold in India than even in the land of its origin. It is not merely
a collection.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore

8. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809 – 1892)
When Tennyson was in his late thirties, he suffered from petit
mal seizures and a nervous breakdown supposedly due to
thwarted romantic hopes, the death of a close friend, and
financial anxieties. He first sought care at a spa under the
direction of Dr. Edward Johnson, and there is record of him
going to two other spas. He was so despondent and ill that
friends despaired for his life (Martin, 1980, 278). However,
shortly after he went to the spa and homoeopathic clinic
operated by Dr. Gully, he experienced noticeable benefit.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson

9. MARK TWAIN (1835 – 1910)
In Harper’s Magazine, he wrote:
“When you reflect that your own father had to take such
medicines as the above, and that you would be taking them
to-day yourself but for the introduction of homoeopathy,
which forced the old-school doctor to stir around and learn
something of a rational nature about his business, you may
honestly feel grateful that homoeopathy survived the
attempts of the allopathists [conventional physicians] to
destroy it, even though you may never employ any physician
but an allopathist while you live. (Tawin, 1890).”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

10. W. B. YEATS (1865 – 1939)
The Irish poet W. B. Yeats was a known appreciator of both
homoeopathic medicine of a few medicines, but a real
science with a rational philosophy as its base.”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats

11. MUSICIANS
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12. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770 – 1827)
There are references by Beethoven to homoeopathy in
this written documentation, and it is well known that his
doctor between 1820 and 1826 was Dr. Anton
Braunhofer, a professor of biology at the University of
Vienna.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven

13. GEORGE HARRISON (1943 – 2001)
A 1992 interview with George Harrison took place in the
London office of Dr. Chandra Sharma, a practitioner of
homoeopathy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison

14. PAUL MCCARTNEY (1942)
“We never go anywhere without our homoeopathic
remedies. We often make use of them and that goes for
Paul too”.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney

15. SIR YEHUDI MENUHIN (1916 – 1999)
Homoeopathy attracted me because it is so subtle, so discreet
and so effective in approach to the whole human being, and I
have certainly met some remarkable people who practice it.
For me it is a personal preference as I try to steer clear of all
doctors, as few have this commitment, and it is because I find
that the world deals these days so much in terms of size and
mass and volume and is always striving for bigger mass and
bigger volume. The mentality that seems to dominate is
meeting one mass with a grater one in order to overcome the
lesser. This is, of course, nonsense, as any thinking human
being knows, for it does not apply to human life. Many people
close to me have benefited from homoeopathy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehudi_Menuhin

16. RAVI SHANKAR (1920)
Ravi Shankar was another appreciator of homoeopathy
who not only sought homoeopathic treatment wherever
he lived but also on the road doing concerts. One
Boston homoeopath who treated him after a concert
remarked how open he was with all around him about
his strong preference for homoeopathic treatment over
all other forms of medicine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Shankar

17. TINA TURNER (1939)
Tina’s longtime interest in homoeopathy and Buddhism:
“Tina Turner looks about thirty-six, and her skin is
flawless. She does not deprive herself. She sips wine at
dinner, does not diet, not take vitamins. If she’s feeling
particularly stressed, she consults a homoeopathic
doctor.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Turner

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