William C Lord 1801 - 1874
September 04, 2009
William C
Lord 1801? - 1874 FRPS,
MRCVS
was an Irish orthodox Veterinary Surgeon of
the
14th Light Dragoons, and of
the
Duke of
Cambridge’s
Own 17th
Lancers
(most famous for its
participation in the Charge
of the Light
Brigade in
the Crimean War), Veterinary Surgeon to the Cavalry Barracks
Canterbury,
who converted to homeopathy,
William C Lord was a colleague of William Haycock, James Moore,
In 1865, William C Lord put forward the modern theory of viral transmission of disease as we know it today, although he used the word ‘protozoa’ instead of ‘virus’ (Clive A. Spinage, Cattle Plague: A History, (Springer, 2003). Page 72).
William C Lord submitted many cases and articles to various homeopathic publications, and to various veterinary and related publications, and he wrote The Homeopathic Treatment of Distemper in Dogs,
William C Lord was the son of the Rev. John Lord, the Rector of Mitchell’s town, Co. Cork,
William C Lord’s Obituary is in the Monthly Homeopathic Review in 1874, and in The British Homeopathic Review,
Of interest:
R P G Lord MRCVSL, was also a homeopathic veterinary Surgeon, who wrote The veterinary vade mecum, and he also submitted cases and articles to various homeopathic publications,