Pioneers of homeopathy
by Dr Thomas Lindsey Bradford
Presented by Dr Robert Séror
Julius Lobethal (1810-1874)
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Dr. LOBETHAL, JULIUS. (1810-1874)
TheBritish Journal thus mentions this pioneer of Homoeopathy :
The death of Dr. Julius Lobethal is announced (Allg. hom. Zeitung). Dr. Lobethal, who died of heart disease on the 12th of December, 1874, was born in 1810.
In 1831 he greatly distinguished himself by his labors among the cholera patients in the epidemic of that year, and it was chiefly his conviction of the inefficacy of the ordinary treatment of that disease that led him to the study of Homoeopathy.
He passed his examination for the doctor's degree in Berlin, in 1833, and shortly afterwards had the satisfaction to cure his mother of a pulmonary affection by homoeopathic remedies, after she had been given up by the allopathic physician in attendance.
He settled in Breslau as a homoeopathic physician in 1834, and speedily obtained a large practice. He met with much opposition, and had to endure much persecution from the representatives of old physicians.
He contributed numerous and valuable practical papers to the Zeitung. In 1841, he published a monograph on Iodine, and introduced a mode of treatment of phthisis by means of inhalations of sea water dispersed through the room in a pulverized form, which is said to have been very successful.
In 1849 he was president of the Central Society of German Homoeopathic Practitioners.
In 1861 he published an essay entitled "The Truth of the Homoeopathic Principle of Cure," on the occasion of a jubilee festival of the Breslau University.
He was the founder of an asylum for the aged, which had the patronage of King Frederick William IV. : and he published some important mortality tables, which were much used by insurance companies.
He was one of the original founders of the Society of Silesian Homoeopathic practitioners (Brit. Jour. Hom., vol 33, p. 531.)
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