Homeopathy Online is a moderated World Wide Web (WWW) journal providing a forum for information exchange among homeopaths and students. Its focus is on the practice of homeopathy as exemplified by the spirit of men and women such as Samuel Hahnemann, James Tyler Kent, and Margaret L. Tyler. We acknowledge that homeopathy is an evolving system of healing, and seek to represent a balance between classical tradition and more recent modalities. To advance a diversity of views and to achieve that ever-elusive compromise between the wisdom of the past and the innovation of the present, with each issue Homeopathy Online will present a new Guest Editor to direct its theme and content. Homeopathy Online is devoted to exploring and expanding the possibilities which the Internet holds for homeopathy. Within the technical possibilities and constraints of the WWW, we endeavor to provide a stimulating, exciting, and intuitive environment. As a WWW journal with an international subscriber base, one of Homeopathy Online's foremost goals is the advancement of homeopathic medicine and the bolstering of national organizations which support a similar cause.
Homeopathy Online welcomes submissions and also seeks applications for guest editorships and interactive case moderators. Please address queries to Editor Chris Kurz, editor@cam.dungeon.com.
Interested in volunteering? We need experienced editors, preferably with some knowledge of homeopathy, who can edit and help conform articles to our stylistic guidelines. We also have a need for basic HTML coders to put in ten or so hours on each bimonthly issue. We can teach you what you need to know to help out with the HTML work. Or, if you have good organizational and communication skills, we're looking for someone to track articles from receipt at Homeopathy Online through to editing and layout. We're also seeking fine art images and/or photographs with subject matter relating to homeopathy for use in future issues. For more information, please contact Katherine Enos at enos@wolfenet.com.
Jerri Andreasen's interest in computers and the Internet can be traced back to the computer science classes she took while an undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley. These classes came too late, however, and she had to be content with a degree in Sociology. Soon after graduation she attended the Computer Learning Center in San Francisco where she earned a Certificate in Programming. It made a most excellent paper airplane. Jerri then gained employment as a Database Programmer, and worked in that occupation for a year and a half. At that point she became restless, and decided to move to Seattle, the heart of the great Pacific Northwest.
Arriving in Seattle with her partner and a U-Haul full of belongings, the two quickly located a house. Finding a suitable job, however, was a more difficult matter. Eventually, she was hired as a Support Technician at the (now defunct) Aldus Corporation. For the first few years at Aldus, Jerri supported PageMaker, PhotoStyler and FreeHand; then she was promoted to Technical Support Supervisor, a job she held for two more years. After leaving Aldus, Jerri worked in the technical support departments of a few other local software companies, but found that after nearly seven years of technical support, she was ready for a new challenge. She quit her job and began a self-directed course of study on web site building, including HTML, Perl, and design techniques. She contributed all of the Perl CGI programming to Homeopathy Online. She and Katherine Enos consult jointly on WWW site design and implementation projects as The Web Design Studio. Jerri can be contacted at jerria@wolfenet.com.
Jerri says her cat hates her, and only puts up with her because of her opposable thumb, which is useful for operating the can opener.
Katherine Enos graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in American History. She started out studying diplomatic history and ended up writing her thesis on the New York Dadaist movement. She also followed up on her year-long stay as an American Field Service high school exchange student to Japan by studying a lot of Japanese and trying to stop bowing to American professors. Subsequent to taking her B.A. degree, Katherine entered the Film Theory & Production master's degree program at San Francisco State University. She also studied photography, creative writing and the arts while at San Francisco State University. Katherine holds a California certificate in massage and studied homeopathy at the Pacific Academy of Homeopathic Medicine in the San Francisco Bay Area. As well as being a filmmaker whose experimental films about the body have shown at domestic and international venues and festivals, Katherine is also a fine art photographer whose subject matter focuses on still lifes and nudes. Last but not least, she also has a novel in progress. Katherine is an avid bicyclist and, time and weather permitting, rides over 100 miles weekly on Seattle's wonderful bicycle trails. She just got a really good new trail bike, which she has unfortunately been neglecting for her PowerMac. She and Jerri Andreasen met at U.C. Berkeley when they both lived at Hoyt Hall. The two consult jointly on World Wide Web site design and implementation projects as The Web Design Studio. Katherine can be reached at enos@wolfenet.com.
Robert Fordham, author of Assessment Criteria and Standards in Education, holds the credentials M.Sc., P.G.C.E., R.S.Hom., B.R.C.P. (Hom.), and P.C.H., and graduated from Durham University with degrees in biology and ecology. Bob is a qualified teacher who graduated from The Northumbria College of Homoeopathy after working with young people and experiencing homeopathy first-hand as a patient. He shares a practice with two homeopaths in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK). The three have developed a "Partnerships for Health" initiative aimed at forming links between homeopaths and local orthodox health services. Bob is pursuing his interest in the development of homeopathic education as a medical student at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle where he is using action research methods to explore the development and application of working homeopathic knowledge. He represents the college's Homoeopathic Education and Research Forum on the Society of Homoeopaths Education Board.
These days - if he gets to the top of a hill - Bob can be heard to reminisce about how it used to feel to ski down! He is unmarried to Cynthia. They have two lovely children, Anna and Patrick.
Chris Kurz, Homeopathy Online Editor and author of the Forward to the Issue, was born 31 years ago in Austria in a small town close to
Vienna. As Chris tells it, after all the dust had settled from growing
up and going through puberty he decided that he wanted to become
either a scientist or a musician. Not being able to justify giving up
either one, Chris split his time and energies between the two, studying physics at the Technical University of Vienna, and Jazz Saxophone at the Conservatory of Vienna. He graduated from both schools in
1989, and then reality caught up with him and he realized a career decision was unavoidable: music or science. Chris received an offer to continue towards a
Ph.D. in physics in America at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in Cambridge, Massachusetts - so the decision was made for him. During
his studies he worked as a physics teacher and concurrently developed a hands-on physical science curriculum for 10 to
19 year-old students, a curriculum now being marketed across the United States.
In 1995, Chris graduated with a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics. He is now employed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at San Diego.
Chris' parents used homeopathy, so he was exposed to this field of medicine very early on as a patient. It was only after Chris arrived in the United States and found out that homeopathic care was much less accessible than in Europe that he considered learning more about it. For the past four years, Chris has explored the field of homeopathic medicine. He obtained the bulk of his homeopathic education by building up a nice library of books and reading every single one of them over the long Boston winters. He attended every seminar available on the east coast and tried to interact with other homeopaths as much as possible.
In the last year Chris has extended his practice of homeopathy beyond his circle of friends and family. He doesn't maintain a full-time practice, but does have enough of a case load to gain valuable clinical experience. Chris considers himself fortunate in that he has had the help and supervision of skilled homeopaths along the way.
Teaching is one of Chris' passions and he hopes to help establish high educational standards in homeopathy. His long-term goal is to unite science and homeopathy in his life and to demonstrate to skeptics on both sides that the seeming schism between these two fields is a reflection of our thinking and not a fact of nature.
Betsy Levine has recently begun what promises to be a life-long study of homeopathy, having been drawn to it in a belated (and unsuccessful) attempt to save the most fun-loving and loyal companion she has known, her Briard Arthur. She weaves, paints, edits, writes, and studies in New Haven, CT, where she shares a home with her husband, Ben Kann, and their three Briards, Larry, Billie, and Celeste. As a former special-interest magazine art director, editor, and publisher who got her start in publishing as a physics journal production editor, she is pleased to be able to contribute an inquiring mind, and a sharp pencil, to the pages of Homeopathy Online.
Michael Tomlinson, the "crocodile" of The Crocodile's Opinion, is Vice-President of the Australian Association of Homoeopaths and editor of the Association's quarterly journal, Similia. He is also a member of the advisory committee for the Bachelor of Naturopathy degree at Southern Cross University in New South Wales. In his other life, he works in administration at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
Julian Winston was born in New York City and
trained as an
industrial designer at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He worked as a
designer in product and packaging in New York, and then moved to
Philadelphia, PA in 1969 to take a teaching job at the University of
the Arts.
In Philadelphia he met Ray Seidel, M.D., HMD, a 1935 graduate of the Hahnemann Medical College. Ray became his physician and introduced him to homeopathy.
Ray urged him to go to the National Center of Homeopathy (NCH) summer school, and wrote a letter to the school asking that Julian be admitted to the three-week professional course.
At the summer school, Julian received three weeks of instruction from some good folks - Masie Panos, Henry Williams, Richard Moskowitz and Catherine Coulter.
Julian became Registrar of the NCH educational program in 1981 and began to teach both the first-aid and the history/pharmacy components.
In 1982 Julian took a sabbatical from teaching and traveled around the United States for a year, talking to doctors and considering ways of continuing his medical education. Julian was able to meet and talk to many U.S. homeopaths and spent three weeks sitting in on Dr. Karl Robinson's practice in New Mexico.
In 1982 Julian was elected to the NCH Board of Directors. He assumed the editorship of Homeopathy Today in 1984. He worked closely with NCH summer school and eventually became Dean of the NCH educational program.
In Philadelphia, Julian became acquainted with Jack Borneman at Borneman's Pharmacy and with Don Lee and Gus Tafel at B&T, and was invited to become a member of the Homeopathic Pharmacopaoeia Convention.
In 1992, Julian was invited to New Zealand for two weeks to assist the Wellington College of Homeopathy in creating a summer program. While there, Julian met Gwyneth Evans, a professional homeopath and WCH principal. The two were married in April 1994. In June, 1995, Julian gave up his tenured position at the University of the Arts and moved to New Zealand with his 4,000 old remedies, and 2,000 homeopathic books and journals.
Julian's homeopathic library and collection was one of the largest private collections in the United States and is now the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. He has original letters from Kent and Hering, original (handwritten) manuscripts of books, a repertory that belonged to J.H. Clarke, books bearing the signatures of Nash, Hering, Lippe, Fincke, and others, and a collection of homeopathic ephemera - postcards, photographs, bottles, etc.
Julian currently co-directs the Wellington College of Homeopathy and works part-time on the design school faculty at Wellington Polytechnic.
One of the last things Julian accomplished before leaving the United States was a video on the history of the American homeopathic movement. This video is available from the NCH for $29.95. It took five years to complete and is filled with over 300 images that Julian has collected over the years.
Julian continues to edit Homeopathy Today, and remains on the NCH Board of Directors. He is the editor of Homeopathy NewZ, a newsletter with nearly 200 subscribers.
Julian also plays the pedal steel guitar and five-string banjo - but that is another story . . . .
David Kramer, contributor of the article, A Case of Desperation, has been a student and practitioner of homeopathy since 1980. He is also the founder of the Hudson Valley School of Classical Homeopathy and a founding member of the Atlantic Academy of Classical Homeopathy. David has offices in the Mid-Hudson Valley, New York City, and Sag Harbor. For information about the Hudson Valley School of Classical Homeopathy, please see David's announcement on the Exchange page.
Jean-Marie Lambert, well known on The Homeopathy Mailing List for his work on The Archives, graduated as a Medical Doctor in 1973.
In 1977 Jean-Marie began studying Homeopathy at the Liege School of Homeopathy in Belgium. Following this three-year course of study, he also completed an additional year of study at the Kentist School of Namur, Belgium, and then two more with Dr. Links' Kentist School of Homeopathy in Bruxelles.
Until 1987 Jean-Marie was a homeopath in private practice and lectured in the French-speaking part of Belgium. He was also an appointed Lecturer for the Namur School of Homeopathy from 1985 to 1987.
Due to health problems (now resolved!), Jean-Marie moved to the Middle East where he now works in a University Hospital and operates a part-time homeopathic clinic.
Tam Llewellyn-Edwards is by training and inclination a "classical homoeopath," but wonders if after reading his article, The Margins of Classical Homoeopathy, his peers might exclude him from their company. Tam completed his training at the American School of Classical Homeopathy in San Diego. As he was already an animal psychologist, his intention was to become a veterinary homoeopathy. But he was surprised to find upon returning to his native United Kingdom in 1974 that it was illegal for a non-veterinary to treat animals with homoeopathy, whereas it was quite legal to treat humans! Consequently he started a practise in homoeopathy (for humans) and has been in practise ever since.
During the early part of his practise Tam obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by following academic research in holistic studies. He practised first in London and later in the north of England, and is currently practising as one of the partners in a mixed complementary medicine practise in the small Yorkshire village of Tickhill. The practise includes an aromatherapist, a hypnotherapist, a reflexologist, and two healers, as well as Tam as clinic homoeopath. Tam has also been a member of the part-time staff of a number of universities in the U.K. as a supervisor to post-graduate students at masters and doctoral levels. In 1975, Tam was honoured by his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Science.
Tam has now practised for over twenty years and continues to view his therapy as "classical," but over the years he has seen and practised a number of less-than-classical forms of homoeopathy . Some were successful and some not. Tam hopes to introduce to the readers of Homeopathy Online some of the therapies on the margins of classical homoeopathy.
Ian Townsend, moderator of Homeopathy Online's first Interactive Case Analysis, completed his initial homeopathic training at the Northumbria College of Homoeopathy in England. The Northumbria College was the first successful educational cooperative in which a group of students committed themselves to each other's development as homeopaths. The majority of the students from Ian's class progressed to full-time practice and eventual registration with the Society of Homeopaths.
Subseqent to his tenure at the Northumbria College, Ian completed The Dynamis School's two-year Advanced Diploma under the tutelege of Jeremy Sherr. Ian now runs practices in a large industrial British town and in a smaller rural market town.
For most of his adult life, Ian Townsend has been involved in education - first as a teacher, then as a teacher-trainer. His educational training led him into secondary (12-16) Science Education; educational technology ("toys for the boys" as one of his friends calls it!) and, latterly, Alternative Education.
For ten years, as a national consultant to the central Government Body, Ian was responsible for the training of nurses and midwives. While launching national initiatives into the usage of computer technology in nurse education, Ian and his partner discovered parenthood, natural childbirth, and relaxation - which for Ian was the start of the long slippery slope to homeopathy.
In 1982, Ian Townsend developed an interest in British homeopathic education - first as a consumer, then as a practitioner. Along with Bob Fordham and Dee McLachlan, he pioneered one of the first locally-based video-case courses for postgraduate practitioners.
Ian has taught at the London College of Classical Homoeopathy and at the Manchester College of Classical Homoeopathy. Ian is a founder and Clinical Director of the Sheffield School of Homeopathy. Since 1993, he has also been a Senior Tutor at the Scottish College of Homoeopathy in Glasgow.
When not practising or teaching homeopathy, Ian Townsend can be found wondering if his 17 year-old daughter will ever stop practising her flute (on weekends he sees, or more appropriately "hears" five hours daily non-stop practice). Ian is getting his own back by trying (accent the "trying") to learn to play alto sax, and sampling his collection of malt whiskies. He's also been known to spend hours on the end of e-mails . . . .
Don Webley has studied and practiced homeopathy since the 1970's. He maintains offices in Portland and Brookings, Oregon. Homeopathy Online is pleased to present Don's article, Carcinosin, in this issue.
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