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History
It was founded by Dr Paul Curie ( the grandfather of Pierre Curie) in 1850 to treat patients using homœopathic methods
Dr Robert Ellis Dudgeon was also associated with the Hospital
The Hospital incorporated the London School of Homœopathy, the Hahnemann Medical Society, and the English Homœopathic Association
It closed in 1854 following the death of its founder, who had caught typhus from a patient and died in 1853
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What was reforming about it?
Homœopathic medicine was controversial
Homœopathic practitioners also disagreed about the foundation of a hospital, which led to two rival institutions, the other being the London Homœopathic Hospital, being founded almost simultaneously, both in Bloomsbury, and in competition with each other
Where in Bloomsbury
It was at 39 Bloomsbury Square from its foundation until 1854, when it ceased to exist
Website of current institution
It no longer exists
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Books about it
There are brief accounts online on many homœopathic practitioners websites, including the reasonably thorough account at www.najmahomeopathicclinic.com (opens in new window)
Archives
Some of Paul Curie’s papers and other material related to the development of homœopathic medicine at the time are held in the Wellcome Library’s Archives and Manuscripts section (opens in new window); online cataloguing is still in progress
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