HENRY CLARKE ALLEN

(1836-1909)

Dr. Henry Allen was born in 1836 at Branthford, Ontario, and was the son of Hugh and Martha Billings Allen. He was the descendant (paternal side) of the family of Vermonters, General Ira Allen and Ethan Allen, both famous in the revolution. On his maternal side, the Billings were well known among the Colonial families of Massachusetts Bay.

Dr. Henry Allen received his early education at London, where he later taught school for a time. He qualified from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada He acquired his medical education at the Western Homeopathic College at Cleveland, Ohio, now called - Cleveland Homeopathic College, where he graduated in 1861.

After graduation, he entered the Union Army, serving as a surgeon. After the war he was offered and accepted the professorship on Anatomy in his Alma Mater at Cleveland, and it was here that he first started practicing medicine. Later he resigned and accepted the same chair in the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. He later shifted to Brantford, Ontario, where on 24th December 1867, he married Selina Louise Goold, who, with his two children, Franklin Lyman Allen and Helen Marian Allen.

In 1875 he moved to Detroit, Michigan. In 1880, he was appointed Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Michigan and he moved to Ann Arbor, where he resided.

In 1892 he founded the Hering Medical College and Hospital, of which he was Dean and Professor of Materia Medica until he passed away on 22nd January 1909.

Dr. Allen was an honorable member of

v The American Institute of Homeopathy;

v The International Hahnemannian Association;

v The Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association;

v The Englewood Homeopathic Medical Society;

v The Regular Homeopathic Medical Society of Chicago;

v Honorary Vice-President of the Cooper Club of London, England;

v Honorary Member of the Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio State Medical Societies,

v Honorary Member of the Homeopathic Society of Calcutta, India.

CONTRIBUTIONS

He was owner and editor of the Medical Advance for many years. Besides writing many articles, his invaluable literary contributions include:

v Keynotes of Leading Remedies

v The Homeopathic Therapeutics of Intermittent Fevers

v The Homeopathic Therapeutics of Fevers

v Therapeutics of Tuberculous Affections

v Bœnninghausen's Slip Repertory, arranged for rapid and practical work.

v A Treatise on the Nosodes, completed a short time before his death, was the result of years of study, experience, and of proving and confirming the symptomatology of many of the nosodes.

DR. SUMIT GOEL M.D. (Hom)

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