Charles D. F. Phillips

(1830–1904) was a British medical doctor and author of a materia medica reference work, divided into two parts: organic (plant extracts, etc.)

It is believed that he first practiced as a homoeopath at Manchester, but he left the fold of Samuel Hahnemann and in 1867 moved to London, where for some years he earned a large professional income.

[1] In 1878 he was disabled by a railway accident, for which, after much litigation, he was awarded damages to the amount of £16,000, said to be the largest sum ever given for injuries received.

[1][2] Dr. Phillips was for a considerable time Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the Westminster Hospital Medical School, and acted as examiner in the subject at the University of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Edinburgh.

In his later years Dr. Phillips, who was a member of the Physiological Society, took a great interest in the exposure of the methods of the antivivisectionists.