Manuel Mateu i Ratera

Dr Manuel Mateu-Ratera * 1951  ✝ July 2024

Internist and specialist in homeopathy. He was a member of the homeopathy faculty in London, led the Barcelona medical academy of homeopathy (AMHB) and taught the “Masters in Homeopathy” (University of Barcelona and AMHB).
Manuel Mateu trained with Dr Pietro Bassi in Courmayeur (Italy) in emergency medicine and first aid. He accompanied the first Catalonian expedition to Mount Everest in 1982. Following this experience, he had advised many high-altitude expeditions and also helped develop first-aid kits with both homeopathic and allopathic medication.
His clinical experience in allopathic medicine and his broad knowledge in classical homeopathy together with his good grasp of the repertory were what makes Manuel Mateu especially stand out. With his support for the Spanish editions of the works of Sankaran and Scholten, he had made a key contribution to introducing these two innovative authors to Spanish readers in Catalonia, Spain, and elsewhere. This groundbreaking book reflects his lively mind and his desire to integrate new approaches, as witnessed in his practice and teaching – activities that he pursued with great passion and vigor. He was enthused with the true passion of the mountain climber, even when going about his everyday tasks.
Although he was an intrepid adventurer, Manuel Mateu's work was nevertheless meticulously accurate. This book is such an example: a wide-ranging and profound work about first aid, in which he combined homeopathy and acupuncture with conventional medicine, incorporating the best of the individual strands of medicine. The Spanish and German editions of this book have already established themselves as standard works, and we expect this new English translation to follow suit.