(1837-1903)
Timothy Field Allen, an
eminent US homeopath, was born on April 24, 1837, in Westminster, Vermont.Son
of a physician, he graduated from Amherst College and gained his medical degree
at New York University in 1861. He studied homeopathy in Brooklyn, New York.
He started his practice as a
partner of Dr. Carrol Dunham. In 1867 he taught Anatomy at the New York
Homœopathic Medical College. He was later appointed professor of Therapeutics
and Materia Medica at the New York Homoeopathic Medical College and then became
the Dean of the Faculty and then President for 11 years (1882-1893). He was
co-editor of the US Medical and Surgical Journal from 1867 to 1870, and the New
York Journal of Homœopathy in 1873-74. He was also Director of a Homoeopathic
Insane Asylum in Middletown, New York, which for decades was a centre for the
research and treatment of mental disease according to scientific homoeopathic
principles.
Allen's two other interests
were music and botany. Renowned as an organist and composer, he was also
Director of the New York Botanical Gardens.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Over 10 years he compiled
the massive Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 12 Volumes, which was a
complete record of all provings done with homeopathic drugs.
He also wrote - Handbook of
Materia Medica.
He also produced a fine
addition of Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocket Book.
He died in 1903.
DR. SUMIT GOEL M.D. (Hom)
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