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, when possible Homeopathy Online will host Guest Editors who will 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 Senior 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 is also currently contracting at Microsoft, where she works on the Internal Tools Group (ITG) Intranet site. Jerri can be contacted at jerria@webds.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 in one of the houses of the University Students Cooperative Association. The two consult jointly on World Wide Web site design and implementation projects as The Web Design Studio. Katherine also contracts at Microsoft, where she works on several external Web sites.

Katherine played a major role in the development of Homeopathy Online and continues to manage its production efforts in addition to doing much of the HTML and editing, as well as graphic design and production. Katherine can be reached at enos@wolfenet.com.

Robert Fordham, a columnist for Homeopathy Online, 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.

Mary L. Hendersonsays that she volunteers her time and skills as a way of giving thanks for homeopathy and to help bring homeopathy to others through the Internet. How did Mary come to homeopathy? After four surgeries, Mary's allopathic physicians had advised her that there was nothing more that could be done to help her regain full use of her left hand and that it was time for "lifestyle changes." Mary took a "Principles of Healing" class in college; this class was a survey of alternative health modalities with a strong emphasis on homeopathy. Within a few months of beginning her own homeopathic constitutional treatment, she was once again able to type 40-80 hours per week without the limiting pain, numbness, tingling, etc., that she had endured for four years. Mary likes the fact that she is now using her restored dexterity to help spread the word about homeopathy. She can be reached via e-mail at marylou@primenet.com.

Douglas Hoff provides assistance in editing and HTML to Homeopathy Online. Currently living in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, Doug is a webmaster for a web design firm. He is also a member of the Three Trails Homeopathic Study Group and the National Center for Homeopathy. Since 1985 he has participated in study groups and practiced as a lay homeopath in both Southern and Northern California. His past vocations have included catering chef, junior college computer science instructor, graphic artist, and computer graphics consultant. He can be reached through his personal home page or via e-mail at dhoff@aol.com.

Chris Kurz, Homeopathy Online Senior Editor and author of several pieces, among them the Foreword 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. Betsy has also taken responsibility for increasing amounts of HTML work and contributes much to helping Homeopathy Online work out operational procedures.

Jennifer Spiro was raised in New York, but has been living in Seattle for nearly three years. Born in November 1968, she's an outgoing, impulsive and independent Scorpio with experience in film production, public relations and graphic design. She's currently a Senior Support Specialist for a local software manufacturer. You can see more of Jennifer's work at her home page.

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 . . . .

Stanley Fefferman, MA DIHom HP, author of this issue's Case Review, is a tenured faculty member at York University in Toronto where he teaches Literature and Medicine. He has contributed to the Literature and Medicine Online Database of New York University Medical School.

Stanley began studying homeopathy in 1992 at the International Academy of Homeopathy in Toronto and was in the first graduating class. He also studied all the materials offered by the British Institute of Homeopathy. He practices homeopathy and psychotherapy in Toronto at the BlueSky Clinic. This Fall, Stanley will begin teaching at the Hahnemann College of Homeopathy.

Other life interests which bear on healing include authorization to teach in the Vajradhatu School of Tibetan Buddhism and to direct meditation seminars in Shambhala Training. Stanley is currently involved in preparing a manual of medical Qigong in collaboration with Dr. Lin Yu Ga, formerly of Shanghai Medical University.

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.

David Little has been a student of homeopathy for over 20 years. His primary teacher was the late Dr. Manning Strahl, who was a master cranial osteopath, chiropactor, homeopath, acupuncturist and hypnotherapist. David has run free clinics in India for 16 years, where the majority of his clients have been Tibetans, hill tribes and north Indians. He has also been sought out by many westerners who became ill while living and traveling in Asia. He was a friend and colleague of the late Dr. H. Choudury of Callcutta, who had 30 years of experience with the use of the LM potency. David is presently in the USA taking a year off from clinical practice to do research and complete a book he is writing on Hahnemannian Homeopathy.

Jonathan Shore, author of Investigations Into the Psyche of the Spider, featured on this issue's Materia Medica page, was born in Cape Town, South Africa and holds credentials including an MD, Diplomate American Board of Homeotherapeutics, and Member Faculty of Homeopathy, London. He has also completed post-graduate work in acupuncture, as well as intensive study in homeopathy under the guidance of George Vithoulkas and Roger Morrison. Although his practice is now exclusively devoted to homeopathy, Jonathan's broad career has spanned psychiatry, child care, and acupuncture. Jonathan is currently a Staff Physician at the Hahnemann Medical Clinic in Albany, California, and continues his private practice in nearby Mill Valley.

Jonathan is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Hahnemann Medical Clinic, and the Homeopathic Patients Foundation in Albany, California. In the past he has also sat on the Board of Directors of HomeoNet and the International Foundation for Homeopathy in Seattle, Washington. He has also been an Editor for the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.

Jonathan is a well-known lecturer in the homeopathic community and has taught at the International Foundation for Homeopathy where he himself completed the post-graduate course in 1991. He has also taught at the Hahnemann Medical Clinic; Faculty of Homeopathy in Glasgow, Scotland; the Norwegian Academy for Natural Medicine, Oslo, Norway; the Kairon Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and at the Homeopathie- Forum, in Munich, Germany.

Not content to focus his study of the healing arts on allopathy, homeopathy and acupuncture alone, Jonathan has also studied Jungian psychology, Gestalt therapy, Bioenergetics, Rolfing, Iridology, Herbal Medicine, Psychic Diagnosis, the laying on of hands, Bach Flower Remedies, Shiatsu, and Swedish massage. Other interests includeTai-Chi Chuan, classical Indian flute, Western and Vedic astrology and horseback riding.

Ian Townsend, moderator of Homeopathy Online's 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 . . . .

Dana Ullman, M.P.H. (Masters in Public Health, U.C. Berkeley) is widely recognized as one of the foremost spokespersons for homeopathic medicine in the United States. He has authored four books, including Discovering Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century (North Atlantic, 1991) which includes a foreword by Dr. Ronald W. Davey, Physician to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Dana is the President of the Foundation for Homeopathic Education and Research, an elected Board member of the National Center for Homeopathy, and directs Homeopathic Educational Services, America's largest publisher and distributor of homeopathic books, tapes, and medicine kits. He has recently developed his own line of homeopathic products, Medicine From Nature, manufactured and marketed by Nature's Way/Madaus Murdock Schwabe, a leader in the natural products industry.

Dana Ullman has served as an instructor in a course on homeopathy at the University of California at San Francisco for three years. He will also be a member of the Advisory Council of the Alternative Medicine Center at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and is a consultant to Harvard Medical School's Center to Assess Alternative Therapy for Chronic Illness.

Dana Ullman authored two other leading books, including Homeopathic Medicines for Children and Infants (Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam, 1992) and The One-Minute (or so) Healer (Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam, 1991), a practical, lighthearted health guide that provides instruction on treating common ailments with a variety of natural healing strategies. His latest volume, The Consumer's Definitive Guide to Understanding Homeopathy and Making It Work For You, is reviewed on the Reviews page of this issue of Homeopathy Online.

Dana Ullman co-authored Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines (Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam, revised 1991) which won the Medical Self-Care Book Award. Dana edited Monograph on Homeopathic Research and has served as publisher of 25 major texts in homeopathy by other authors. He has written over 30 published articles in a variety of respected publications, including Western Journal of Medicine, Social Policy, The Futurist, Medical Self-Care, California Living (the Sunday magazine to the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner), as well as numerous health care and homeopathic journals.

Dana Ullman has been particularly effective in working with major institutions and getting them to change their attitudes and policies towards natural health care. He has organized successful conferences which were sponsored or co-sponsored by the federal Department of Health & Human Services ("Holistic Health: Policies in Action," May, 1980) and U.C. Berkeley ("Conceptualizing Energy Medicine," March, 1981). He authored the San Francisco Foundation's Health Report, which changed the funding priorities of this major philanthropic institution. He consulted on a research project sponsored by the California medical board which ultimately recommended many of his proposals. He has recently become a consultant to the World Health Organization.

Dana Ullman is the health book reviewer for the Utne Reader. Dana is listed in Who's Who in American Education and Who's Who in the West.

Rudolf Verspoor, author of this issue's The Homeopathic View of Vaccination on the Community Voice page, has been studying and practising homeopathy for over 10 years. He lives and works in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, at the clinic and school he helped to found, Norsana Academy. Rudi received his main homeopathic education with the British Institute of Homeopathy and holds the post-graduate practitioner diploma of the Institute (Canada), DHM (Pract.). He is currently President of the Canadian national homeopathic professional association, NUPATH, which he helped to found in 1994.

Rudi was one of the first to introduce to North America a new, advanced approach to homeopathy, "Sequential Therapy." He wrote the first English language book, Homeopathy Renewed, on this effective approach to chronic, complex cases developed by a Swiss homeopath over 25 years ago. Rudi loves teaching, which he finds an excellent way to prevent hardening of the brain cells.

Rudi can be reached via e-mail at rudi@web.apc.org.

Thomas Quak, author of our cover story, Vaccinations and Their Side Effects, resides in Germany and has three children. He received his medical education at the University of Munich and is now working on his promotion, "A Computer Expertsystem for Teaching Rheumatology." Thomas is the German language editor and translator of Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. Several of his articles have been published in the Deutsches Journal für Homëopathie. Since 1989, Thomas has been teacher and manager of the Homeopathic Study Group Munich. He also edits their Internet home page, http://www.med.uni-muenchen.de/fachschaft/homeopathy/Listserv.htm. Thomas now works full-time as a physician at the Zentrum für Homëopathie in Munich, exclusively using homeopathic treatment. He studies with Dr. Michael Barthel, whose teacher was Dr.  Künzli von Fimmelsberg (of the Repertorium Generale).

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