Published: 2019-01-01

Homeopathy in the life of the tsarist official Ignacy Artur Doliński

Maria Korybut-Marciniak
The Quarterly of the History of Material Culture
Section: Studies and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM67.2019.1.007

Abstract

One of the social groups in the Russian Empire that in the 19th c. appiled homeopathy as a method of alternative medicine were officials. The article shows how the doctrine of homeo-pathy was adopted in the milieu of the tsarist official Ignacy Artur Doliński (1831–1909), a Pole from the north-eastern provinces of the Empire. The adoption of the therapy is described from the perspective of an individual’s experience, on the basis of Doliński’s documents and letters. Doliński not only applied Hahnemann’s method himself but also propagated it in Vilnius, where he lived having retired from civil service. In 1894 he founded the Vilnius Association of Ho-meopathy Followers, which worked until the First World War.

Keywords:

homeopathy, officials, nineteenth century, St Petersburg

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Korybut-Marciniak, M. (2019). Homeopathy in the life of the tsarist official Ignacy Artur Doliński. The Quarterly of the History of Material Culture, 67(1), 113–124. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM67.2019.1.007

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