Elizabeth Wright Hubbard (February 18, 1896 – May 22, 1967) was an American

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and

homeopath 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 ...

best known for leadership and editorial work in the field of homeopathy.

Biography

Hubbard was born in

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, the daughter of Rev. Dr. Merle St. Croix Wright, the pastor of Harlem Unitarian Church. She was educated at the

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and graduated from

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

in 1917, and in 1921 earned an MD from the

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, as one of the first six females to do so. She completed her internship at

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. She then spent two years in Europe studying homeopathy in Stuttgart,

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, under Adolf Stiegele, in

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under Pierre Schmidt, and in

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under Emil Schlegel. Hubbard subsequently assumed leadership roles as president of the International Hahnemannian Association from 1945 to 1946, and of the

American Institute of Homeopathy The American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH), established in 1844, is the oldest extant national physician’s organization in the United States. The founding president of the AIH was Constantine Hering. Past AIH presidents include Royal S. Cope ...

from 1959 to 1961. She served as editor of the ''Homoeopathic Recorder'', the ''Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy'' and the ''Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy''. She was on the faculty of the AFH postgraduate homeopathic school. Hubbard was also involved in

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and served as president of the

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in the United States. She married Benjamin Alldritt Hubbard in 1930. They had a daughter, the actress

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, and two sons, Theodore C. Hubbard and

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Merle Hubbard.

Publications

*Homoeopathy as Art and Science, Ed. Maesimund B. Panos, MD, and Della des Rosiers, Beaconsfield Publishers Ltd, Beaconsfield, U.K. 1990 () *A Brief Study Course in Homeopathy,Roy & Company; 3rd ed. (enlarged) edition (1959), and Indian Edition (1977)The Heritage of Homoeopathic Literature, Julian Winston, Great Auk Publishing, Tawa, NZ

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hubbard, Elizabeth Wright 1896 births 1967 deaths American homeopaths Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni Barnard College alumni Physicians from New York City Anthroposophic medicine practitioners