Robert Ellis Dudgeon

After a second stay in Vienna to follow the homœopathic practice of Wilhelm Fleischmann in the Gumpendorf hospital, he began to practise in London in 1845.

[1] One of his patients, Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury, assisted in defeating efforts by Sir James Simpson to have legislation passed against homeopaths practising.

[1] The legislative climate was still unfavourable, and the London Homeopathic Hospital set up in 1869 struggled as a school; certification was an issue, under the Medical Act 1858, and the teaching side closed in 1884;[3] Dudgeon was for a short time assistant physician there.

[1] Elected president of the International Homœopathic Congress which met in Atlantic City in 1904, Dudgeon did not attend because of bad health.

[1] In 1847 Dudgeon published Homœopathic Treatment and Prevention of Asiatic Cholera, and devoted himself over the next three years to an English translation of Hahnemann's writings, of which the Organon appeared in 1849, and the Materia Medica Pura in 1880.

He also translated Ernst Fuchs's Causes and Prevention of Blindness (1885) and François Sarcey's Mind Your Eyes (1886), and wrote on The Swimming Baths of London (1870).

[1] Zoë Gertrude, one of the daughters, married John Oakley Maund and then Sir Vincent Henry Penalver Caillard.