(1828 - 1877)
Dr. Carrol Dunham was born
in New York on October 29, 1828.
He graduated from Columbia
University with Honours in 1847. In 1850, he received the M.D. degree at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York.
While in Dublin, he received
a dissecting wound that nearly killed him, but with the aid of homoeopathy, he
was cured with Lachesis.
He visited various
homoeopathic hospitals in Europe and then went to Munster where he stayed with
Boenninghausen and studied the methods of the great Master.
CONTRIBUTIONS
For twenty-five years he
contributed articles regularly. Amongst his works are ‘Lectures on Materia
Medica’ and ‘Homoeopathy - Science of Therapeutics’.
He was one of the early
people to mechanize the process of potentization. He availed himself of an
abandoned oil-mill, in which, by waterpower, four stampers, consisting of large
oak timbers, eight inches square and eighteen feet long were lifted and let
fall at a distance of eighteen inches. By means of strong oaken receptacles,
bolted firmly to the stampers, 120 vials were succussed at one time, and thus
that number of medicines was, by a single operation, advanced one degree in the
scale of potentization. One hundred and twenty five such succussions were given
to each potency. The Dunham potencies were given to Smith's Pharmacy in New
York City. Several doctors inherited potencies marked '200D' and these are
probably all that remained of Dunham potencies.
Under the stress of his
large practice, he developed rheumatic carditis and once again homoeopathy
saved him - Lithium carb, prescribed by Dr. Hering. He then set out to organize
the ‘World Homoeopathic Convention’.
He became bedridden in
December 1876 and passed away on February 18, 1877.
DR. SUMIT GOEL M.D. (Hom)
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