Paul François Curie

Paul Francois Curie 1799 – 1853 was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become one of the founders of homeopathy in Britain, and the Consultant Physician at the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square, and a member of the British Homeopathic Association, and the British Homeopathic Society.

Curie was a student of Samuel Hahnemann, and the homeopath of Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Thomas Egerton 2nd Earl of Wilton (and of his children’s governess), and he a colleague of Francis Black Simon Felix Camille Croserio, Harris F Dunsford, Thomas Engall, John Epps, Thomas Roupell Everest, George Fearon, Richard Walter Heurtley, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Joseph Kidd, Joseph Laurie, William Leaf, William Henry Mayne, John Ozanne, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Samuel Thomas Partridge, Antoine Henri Petroz, Henri Petroz, Marmaduke Blake Sampson, Jean Paul Tessier Senior, Vienttinghoff,

William Charles Ellis applied to Frederick Hervey Foster Quin for more information about homeopathy, and as a result, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin sent him his colleagues Guiseppe Belluomini, Harris F Dunsford, and Paul Francois Curie to assist him at Hanwell Lunatic Asylum at William Charles Ellis‘s invitation.

Paul Francois Curie was a French army surgeon who was a Consultant at the Military Hospital in Upper Alsace when he converted to homeopathy.

Paul Francois Curie was a Saint Simonist. As a thinker Henri de Saint Simon was not particularly systematic, but his great influence on modern thought is undeniable, both as the historic founder of French socialism, which influenced the thought of Karl Marx, and as suggesting much of Auguste Comte’s theory of industrial progress, which in turn influenced Emile Durkheim.

At first, Paul Francois Curie despaired about the complexity of homeopathy, although Samuel Hahnemann was unworried.

   Antoine Henri Petroz, a physician of “high standing” in Paris, gathered homeopaths around him – Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Paul Francois Curie, and Simon Felix Camille Croserio among them. Curie moved to London in 1835. The brother of Antoine Henri Petroz, Henri Petroz opened Paris’ first homeopathic pharmacy in 1833. The first Organon in French was by Baron Ernst George von Brunnow 1796 – 1845 in 1824. The first journal in the French language was Bibliotheque Homeopathique, introduced in Geneva in 1832. Jean Paul Tessier Senior introduced homeopathy to Paris hospitals in 1847.

The first UK homeopaths were all close colleagues of Samuel Hahnemann in Paris and they came to England specifically to set up homeopathic practice in the 1830s. They were Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Paul Francois Curie, grandfather of the scientist Pierre Curie, William Leaf, a rich London Silk Merchant, and Thomas Roupell Everest.
Thomas Roupell Everest also published Heal the sick and cleanse the lepers as you preach the gospel: A sermon, preached in the Church of St. Augustine, Old Change, Cheapside, on Wednesday, April 9, 1851, in aid of the Hahnemann Hospital on Wed 9 April 1851, a sermon he had preached in London, delivered in favour of the said hospital, which was a homeopathic venture of Paul Francois Curie…
Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, William Leaf, Paul Francois Curie and Thomas Roupell Everest were part of the inner sanctum of Samuel Hahnemann’s proteges. They established practices in the UK and later free dispensaries for the poor and also several hospitals…
Paul Francois Curie was married to Augustine Curie and the father of Eugene Curie and the grandfather of Pierre Curie. Pierre Curie 1859-1906 came from a medical family, and his grandfather Paul Francois Curie was a famous homeopathic physician.

In addition to the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square, William Leaf also organised a dispensary for the poor of the district near his Country House (opened in 1837 in Finsbury Circus… where Joseph Laurie and George Fearon were students of Paul Francois Curie) and where Paul Francois Curie treated numerous patients every Sunday. Paul Francois Curie also taught homeopath Joseph Kidd.

From Harris Livermore Coulter Divided Legacy: A History of the Schism in Medical Thought; Vol IV, Twentieth Century Medicine, The Bacteriological Era:” The Robert Koch debacle…

   Harris Livermore Coulter page 81: Robert Fludd was the first person to record the isopathic treatment of tuberculosis in the 17th century. The second person to do so was homeopath Constantine Hering in 1830 in America. In the 1850s, homeopath Paul Francois Curie (father of Pierre Curie) ‘undertook and investigation on the inoculation for tuberculosis’.

Paul Francois Curie was the first person to study Radium, used in homeopathic form for safety. This study was to become a family affair when Paul Francois Curie’s grandson Pierre Curie and his wife Marie Curie conducted their experiments with radioactivity. Pierre Curie and Marie Curie had a long history of homeopathic research to base their experiments on.

The sad experiments of homeopath Emile Grubbe would have been well publicised in the press, and Paul Francois Curie’s research was obviously family knowledge.

In 1896 Emile Grubbe was the first person to use radiation treatment on a cancer patient when he discovered fractionated radiotherapy. Grubbe was also the first to use lead as protection against x rays.

Emile Grubbe is the originator of the Memorial Award of the Chicago Radioloical Society. Despite horrible disfigurement from his own experimentation, Emile Grubbe eventually had to give up lecturing after his body was made ‘a testing laboratory’ for the poorly understood effects of x-ray.

   Born in Grand Charmont in 1799, Paul Francois Curie studied medicine in Paris under Francois Joseph Victor Broussais, Guillaume Dupuytren, Alexis Boyer, Pierre Augustin Beclard and Jacques Lisfranc. He entered military service in 1820 at the Picpus and Val de Grace Hospitals and became assistant surgeon to the 8th Regiment of Chausseurs. He was promoted to full surgeon in 1830 with the National Guards of Mulhausen.

In 1832, Paul Francois Curie converted to homeopathy and went to Paris where he performed research into homeopathy in the large hospitals in Paris. In 1835, he met William Leaf who persuaded him to move to London, where he had to learn English before he could practice.
In 1837, he worked in the Finsbury Circus Free Dispensary for the Poor, where he instructed Joseph Laurie and George Fearon. In 1839, he moved his practice to Ely Place in Holborn where he taught homeopathy to John Ozanne, William Henry Mayne, Samuel Thomas Partridge, Vienttinghoff, Francis Black and Thomas Engall.
In 1841, he moved to Brook Street, leaving the Poor Dispensaries fully up and running, he decided to found a hospital. William Leaf obtained a large house in Hanover Square and set this up as a hospital.
In 1843, a school of homeopathy was established, and the Annals of the Homeopathic Dispensary was published from 1840 to 1845, containing many of Paul Francois Curie’s clinical lectures. These lectures crossed the Atlantic to form a text book at the Philadelphia Homeopathic College.
In 1845, the British Homeopathic Association was formed with Marmaduke Blake Sampson, Richard Walter Heurtley and John Epps. Also, the court case over Mr. Cordwell brought Paul Francois Curie’s dietetic practice into sharp focus, causing much debate.
Also in 1845, Paul Francois Curie went to Aberdeen to obtain a British MD from Kings College to conform to the new Medical Registration Bill. In 1850, the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square was established, where Paul Francois Curie remained as a consultant until his death in 1853.
Unfortunately Curie caught typhus from a patient and died in 1853 and the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square closed shortly afterwards. This led to the unification of the homeopathic medical profession.
from Diary of the Late John Epps; formerly a Lecturer in Materia Medica and Botany at the Hunterian School of Medicine, London, homeopath John Epps was a political, religious and medical radical, who was loosely associated with Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, and more closely with Paul Francois Curie, Harris F Dunsford, the co-founders of the radical and breakaway British Homeopathic Association, in direct opposition to the British Homeopathic Society.
Paul Francois Curie wrote Specification of Paul Curie: Evaporating Sewage, &c., Practice of Homoeopathy, Domestic Homeopathy, Principles of homœopathy, Clinical Lectures on Homoeopathy, Verdict of Coroners’ Juries. The Case of the Late Mr. Cordwell, A Treatise on Cholera, English and Asiatic; with Directions for the … , and he translated The Manual of Homœopathic Medicine by Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr.

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