John Mason Galloway 1826 - 1892
August 22, 2009
John Mason Galloway
1826? - 1892? MD Edinburgh
1852,
was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become
House
Surgeon
at the Manchester Homeopathic
Hospital,
Surgeon at the Birmingham Homeopathic
Hospital,
Medical
Officer
at the Wigan Homeopathic
Dispensary, a
member
of the Northern Homeopathic Medical
Association,
Secretary
to the Homeopathic Congress, Honorary
Secretary
to the Manchester Homeopathic Medico Chirurgical
Society,
In 1855, Galloway was charged over the death of an infant, Thomas Alexander, who he had treated homeopathically for presumed measles (he gave bryonia and mercurius). An allopath had ‘deliberately misheard’ that the mercurius was in homeopathic potency and brought charges of death by mercury poisoning! The case was discharged from Court without charge.
Galloway practiced in Wigan, Arden Street Darlington, Sunderland, and in South Shields,
Galloway was a colleague of Francis Black, William Vallancy Drury, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, George Fearon, Kennedy, George Stevenson Knowles, T L Mathews, Phillips, Alfred Crosby Pope, Thomas Eadie Purdom, George Wyld,
Galloway translated Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr’s On Mental Diseases, and he submitted cases and articles to various homeopathic publications,