The Diseases of Females in Relation to Homeopathy

Dr. Thomas Skinner MD [1825-1906] was born and educated in Edinburgh. Before becoming a homeopath he was a respected gynecologist and obstetrician. Skinner began his medical studies in 1849, graduating MD 1853 at St Andrews. Skinner took Simpson's Gold Medal in Gynecology and Obstetrics in 1855-6, after being about 3 years in practice in Dumfriesshire. He became Simpson's private assistant at his residence in Edinburgh and could scarcely have avoided taking on his views and bias as regards the great contest between the old school of medicine and homeopathy. He became converted to homeopathy in 1875 in Liverpool, through treatment for his own health problems, by Dr. Edward Berridge [1844-1920]. Having been cured with a single dose of high potency Sulphur [MM powder], the Dramatic effect this dose had upon him was so profound and so unexpected on his part, that it is hardly surprising that Skinner became such a thoroughgoing high-potency advocate. He visited the US in 1876 and developed a centesimal fluxion machine for making high potencies and named after him the Skinner Machine.