(1891 – 1955)
Dr. Boyd was born on 21 May
1891 in Glasgow.
He was educated at the
Glasgow Academy and Glasgow University. During World War I, he served as a
surgeon in the Royal Navy. Later he joined the Homoeopathic Faculty in 1919. It
was due to the influence of Dr. Gibson Miller that he owed his initial
knowledge and interest in homoeopathy. From 1920 onwards, he was Physician and
Radiologist to the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital. He was the Founder and first
Director of the Boyd Medical Research Trust Laboratories. He was member of
numerous societies such as Faraday Society, the Royal Philosophical Society,
Society of Physical Medicine – a branch of British Medical Association, the
Institute of Radiology and the British Institute of Engineers. He was a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Institute of Electronics and a Member of
the Faculty of Homoeopathy.
Between 1922 and August
1954, he contributed many papers on homoeopathic and biochemical research to
the British Homoeopathic Journal. In 1936 he published a monograph entitled –
Low Potencies of Homoeopathy. Dr. Boyd proved by experiments on his Emanometer
beyond any shadow of doubt that the presence of a power exists in 30th potency
of Mercuric Chloride. He thus vindicated the clinical insight of Hahnemann.
It was Dr. Boyd who came
forward to prove by experimental verifications that the power released by a
drug is a kind of emanation that could be measured and applied. Dr. Boyd
discovered that there are some sorts of emanations produced by homoeopathically
prepared drugs that act only on the tissues to which each individual drug is
fitted. There is evidence of a kind suggesting that disorganization of healthy
state of body is due to effects on people or emanations from substance they
take or sources to which they are exposed.
DR. SUMIT GOEL M.D. (Hom)
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