200 years ago Homeopathy spread to Naples – Campania
Doctors and scholars at a conference on the initiative of LUIMO
(ANSA) – NAPLES, 12 DEC – Naples has played a decisive role in the spread of homeopathy in Italy and in Europe, thanks to the success that this medicine encountered starting from 1821, when the Austrian medical officers introduced it in the reign of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon ..
This is what emerged in the conference organized by Luimo (Association for the Free International Homeopathic University), the Museum of Health Arts and the Museum of Homeopathy-Negro Foundation on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the arrival of Homeopathic medicine.
The “Encyclopedic Journal of Naples” reported in 1822 that the Austrian general Franz von Koller had donated six volumes of works by Samuel Hahnemann, father of Homeopathy, to the Royal Academy of Sciences – said Sergio Galantini.
scholar of the history of medicine – it was the beginning of the “conversion” to homeopathy of some of the most famous doctors of the time, such as Cosmo Maria de Horatiis, director of the University’s medical clinic, who was the owner of the church of S. Aniello in Caponapoli, where the celebratory conference took place. De Horatiis was the doctor of King Francis I of Bourbon, who recovered from a form of angina, and the king became the protector of Homeopathy. But already 20 years earlier, in 1801 – reported the president of Luimo, dr. Carlo Melodia – “The medical observer” of Naples had given news of the cure of scarlet fever with the homeopathic Belladonna. Within a few years there were over 500 homeopathic doctors in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies who treated the typhus and cholera epidemics with excellent results. The conference was attended by prof, Francesco Eugenio Negro, prof, Paolo Negro and prof, Gennaro Rispoli. (HANDLE).
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