George Napoleon Epps (22 July 181528 May 1874) was an English

homœopathic Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called homeopaths, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a dise ...

practitioner and author.

Life

Epps was the half-brother of physician and homeopath

John Epps Dr John Epps (15 February 1805 – 12 February 1869) was an English physician, phrenologist and homeopath. He was also a political activist, known as a champion of radical causes on which he preached, lectured and wrote in periodicals. Life Ear ...

, and was born on 22 July 1815. He was educated at

Mill Hill School Mill Hill School is a 13–18 mixed independent, day and boarding school in Mill Hill, London, England that was established in 1807. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. History A committee of Nonconformist me ...

in London After being for some years his brother's pupil and assistant, he became a member of the London College of Surgeons in 1845, and was in the same year appointed surgeon to the Homœopathic Hospital in Hanover Square. He was successful in treating

spinal curvature The vertebral column, also known as the backbone or spine, is part of the axial skeleton. The vertebral column is the defining characteristic of a vertebrate in which the notochord (a flexible rod of uniform composition) found in all chordates ...

s and deformities. Epps had a large practice to which he was devoted, never sleeping out of his house for twenty years. In 1833 he married Charlotte Bacon. He died on 28 May 1874.

Works

In 1849 Epps published ''Spinal Curvature, its Theory and Cure''. He added a third part to Joseph Hippolyt Pulte's ''Homœopathic Physician'', brought out by his brother in 1852, on the ''Treatment of Accidents''; and published revised editions of Walter Williamson's ''Diseases of Infants and Children'', and ''Diseases of Women and their Homœopathic Treatment'', in 1857. In 1859 he published a work, ''On Deformities of the Spine and on Club Foot''.

Family

Epps married in 1833 Charlotte Bacon. Their daughter Ellen (1850–1929) married Edmund Gosse, and their daughter Laura Theresa (1852–1909) married Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

References

* 1815 births 1874 deaths People educated at Mill Hill School 19th-century English medical doctors British homeopaths Place of birth missing Place of death missing {{UK-med-bio-stub