Egbert. Cleave

Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedia of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons. Egbert. Cleave

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...relief of General Butler, and the assignment of General Ord to the command of the department, he was transferred from the 10th Army Corps to Headquarters, and was present at the fall of Petersburg and the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House. A few days after the surrender, General Ord established his headquarters at Richmond, and he was placed on duty as Assistant Medical Director of the Department, and soon after was promoted major by brevet. He served as Assistant Medical Director until his application for discharge was accepted November 24th, 1865. About the first of December, he opened an office on east Twelfth street, New York city, and in connection with his professional duties there, he attended lectures at various medical colleges in that city. The conversation which led him to investigate homoeopathy occurred while he was in Richmond. An allopathic physician of considerable re-' pute, a prominent member of the Board of Health, in his search for cholera remedies, desired to find the one used by homoeopathic physicians, saying that in both epidemics, which had occurred since his recollection, the homoeopathists had been much more successful than the allopathists, and it was his opinion that they had stumbled upon some remedy which had a specific effect in cholera, as quinine has in intermittent fever. In Dr. Hayward's search for this remedy, he discovered that it was the homoeopathic knowledge and application of a principle instead of a remedy which gave them success. In March, 1866, he came to Taunton, Mass., and in April of the same year, entered into co-partnership with Dr. George Barrows. In June, he was married to Lemira H. Drake, of Easton. In July, 1807, he was commissioned Surgeon of the 3d Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers Mil...