(1849-1929)
Dr. William Boericke, an
eminent U.S. homeopath, was born in Austria, on November 26, 1849.
He studied for one year at
the Vienna Medical School, before immigrating to the United States and settling
in Ohio.
He graduated from the
Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia in 1880. Soon afterwards he moved to
San Francisco where he worked as a homoeopath for more than fifty years.
He was co-founder of the
Pacific Homoeopathic Medical College of San Francisco and Hahnemann Hospital in
1881. This was incorporated into the University of California, where he became
the first professor of Homoeopathic Materia Medica and Therapeutics, a post he
held for thirty years.
CONTRIBUTIONS
In 1901 he published his
‘Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica comprising of The Characteristic
and Guiding Symptoms of all remedies (Clinical and Pathogenetic)’. His brother
Oscar added a repertory to the book in 1906.
‘A Compend of the Principles
of Homoeopathy’
‘Regionals of Boericke’
‘Analogy of Pain’
‘The Bedside Boericke’ [7
volumes]
‘Capitals of Lippe’
He translated the sixth
edition of Hahnemann’s Organon of Medicine into English
He died on April 1, 1929, of
a massive heart attack.
DR. SUMIT GOEL M.D. (Hom)
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