Dr. Harris F. Dunsford’s Obituary:
“It is our painful duty to record the death of one of Hahnemann’s earliest English disciples, Dr. Harris F. Dunsford, which took place in London on the night of the 17th June.
Dr. Dunsford was just thirty-nine at the period of his decease. He became a licentiate of the Apothecaries’ Company in 1829, and the following year took out the diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons. He first established himself in the city as a general practitioner, but soon thereafter becoming a convert to the doctrines of Hahnemann, he was appointed by the Marquis of Anglesey medical attendant in his own family, with one of the member of which he travelled on the continent. He took out his degree of M.D. at Freiburg in 1833, and returing to London about the year 1834, commenced practice as Homœopathic physician. In 1838 he published a work entitled, “The Pathogenetic Effects of some of the Principal Homœopathic Remedies;” and in 1841 another, “The Practical Advantages of Homœopathy, dedicated to her Majesty, Queen Adelaide.” At the period of his death, we are informed, he was engaged in translating “Hartmann’s Therapie.”
Dr. Dunsford enjoyed a large and highly respectable practice, and had the honour of prescribing for her Majesty the Queen Dowager, during the lifetime of his late Majesty King William. He endeared himself to his patients and to all who knew him, by his quiet, unassuming, and gentlemanly deportment. He was a fervent admirer of our great master whose personal esteem he enjoyed. He has left a widow and five children to lament his untimely end.”
Drysdale, John James, et al. The British Journal of Homoeopathy, vol. 5, 1847, pp. 399.
