Percival George Quinton 1888 - 1953
April 15, 2009
Percival
George
Quinton 1888? - 1953 was a British orthodox physician who converted
to homeopathy.
He was a Consultant
Physician at the
Royal London Homeopathic
Hospital,
a
member
of the British Homeopathic
Society
and Honorary
Secretary
to the Faculty of
Homeopathy.
Quinton taught Edwin D W Tomkins, and he was a colleague of Edward Bach, Marjorie Grace Blackie, Ardeshir Kavasji Boman Behram, Douglas Morris Borland, John Henry Clarke, Robert Thomas Cooper, Andrew Tocher Cunningham, Donald MacDonald Foubister, Norbert Glas, Clarence Granville Hey, James Douglas Kenyon, Thomas Maughan, William Burnett Douglas Miller, Elizabeth Paterson, John Paterson, Kathleen Gordon Priestman, William Wilson Rorke, Margaret Lucy Tyler, John Weir, Charles Edwin Wheeler, Harold Fergie Woods, Dudley d’Auvergne Wright, and he was a member of the Cooper Club, which continued to meet into the 1930s.
Quinton attended the International Homeopathic Congress in London in 1911.
Quinton practiced at 99 Tollington Park, London, N4 in 1925,
Percival G Quinton’s Obituary is in The British Homeopathic Journal 42, 1953, 101-2, 145-6.
Quinton wrote Practical Homeopathic Prescribing, and he submitted cases and articles to various homeopathic publications.
Of interest:
A Professor Rene Quinton at the Sorbonne in Paris, was a biologist who experimented with isotonic injections of seawater in 1914. This sea water was called the Plasma of Quinton.