20/08/2025
Homeopathy in History...
In 1854, Dr. H. B. Eaton, an allopathic physician of Rockport, Maine, faced a dilemna when his child was dying of dysentery. He relates the story of his conversion to homeopathy:
"I took my own degree, as Doctor of Medicine, at the Maine Medical School in 1845. While there I roomed with L. V. Payne, a student in the same class with myself. In the lectures the Professor of Anatomy (Peaslee) took special pains to ridicule homœopathy. To refute the assertions of Professor Peaslee, young Payne would read at our room from homœopathic authors. In this way, I became acquainted with homœopathic and allopathic disputations. On leaving college, however, this all passed out of my mind except the fact that homœopathy claimed to cure diseases over which allopathy had no power.
In 1852, Rockport was visited by scarlatina maligna. Among the victims of this epidemic was my (then) only child. This death unfitted me for practice, and I visited the schools and hospitals of New York and Philadelphia for the purpose of gaining additional information in which I supposed myself deficient. On my return to practice, however, I determined, if myself or any of my own family were sick, to treat homœopathically if possible."
Dr. H. B. Eaton, faced a terrible dilemma in 1854 when another of his children was dying of dysentery. He relates the story of his conversion to homeopathy...
"Allopathic skill seemed as impotent in this as in the scarlatina cases. My former resolution returned. A neighbor had a case of homœopathic medicines and book for domestic use. I went to him in the night, enjoined secrecy, took the book and medicines, and here, in the case of my own child, made my first experiment. In twelve hours the whole aspect of the case was changed for the better. My child recovered."
Source: H. B. Eaton. Homœopathy in Maine. Transactions of the World’s Homœopathic Convention of 1876, vol. II, 561-562.
