James Compton Burnett
James Compton Burnett
1840-1901
Burnett was born in 1840, the son of a landowner in Scotland. He studied medicine in Vienna, later in
Glasgow.
He was an outstanding student. His anatomy professor attempted to dissuade him from becoming a homeopath and warned him of the lack of career prospects. Burnett replied that he could “not buy worldly honours at the cost of my conscience.” He ran one of the largest practices in London for 23 years.
Burnett frequently launched frontal attacks on conventional medicine, since it contradicted his notion of reality. He wrote: “We all tend to set aside the normal rules of scientific method when we feel a deep wish that something is not true.“
Burnett was a pragmatist and never shied away from experiments. In this regard, he was as unimpressed by the doctrines of orthodox homeopathy as by those of conventional medicine.
Main works:
1. Fifty Reasons for Being a Homeopath
2. Gold as a Remedy in Disease
3. Vaccinosis and Its Cure by Thuja
4. Fevers and Blood Poisoning
Vaccinosis and its Cure by Thuja with Remarks on Homoeoprophylaxis
Fiebres e intoxicación de la sangre con su Tratamiento
Zarte, zurückgebliebene, schwächliche und im Wachstum behinderte Kinder
Organerkrankungen bei Frauen - Wechseljahre der Frauen
Die Gicht und ihre Heilung
Die Heilbarkeit von Katarakt mit Arzneien - Homöopathie
Neuralgien ihre Ursache und ihre Arzneimittel
Delicate, Backward, Puny & Stunted Children
Curability of Cataract with Medicines
Ringworm - its Constitutional Nature and Cure
Gynecological Diseases
Tumoren der Brust
Erkrankungen der Haut
