THE BOX AND THE BOOK



You do not expect to play chess without learning the game, but you do expect to be able to treat homoeopathically without even knowing the homoeopathic power! Hence my writing you all these reasons for my for being a homoeopath is a futile farce. I am, in fact, writing you about chess without your knowing the pieces or even the board.

Again, he affirms: “Homoeopathy raises one from the dependent position of a journey man therapeutist to that of a master;” and finally, here for us is the be all and end all of our final efforts:.

“Homoeopathy turns the groping bungling treater of disease into a master of the healing art”.

BOSTON, MASS.

Benjamin Woodbury
Dr Benjamin Collins WOODBURY (1882-1948)
Benjamin Collins Woodbury was born August 13, 1882, at Patten, Maine. He was the son of Dr. Benjamin Collins, a homeopathic physician, and Matidle Albina (Knowles). He attended Patten Academy and received his M.D. from Boston University Medical School in 1906. Following graduation Dr. Woodbury began his practice in Lewiston and Winthrop, Maine, and in 1907 moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he practiced for the next nine years. Dr. Woodbury married Miss Gertrude Fancis O'Neill of Boston at Eliot, Maine on June 18, 1915.
In March, 1919, Dr. Woodbury left the Islands and located in San Francisco where he practiced for two years and then returned to the East and established a practice in Boston. He was a trustee and a member of the staff of the Hahnemann Hospital, Boston, and in 1947 was elected president if the International Hahnemann Institute, Washington, D.C. He also gave many lectures on homeopathy at Boston University and at postgraduate sessions of the American foundation of Homeopathy.
Dr. Woodbury died on January 22, 1948, in Boston at the age of 65.
The doctor was the author of "Materia Medica for Nurses", published in 1922 and of many articles in medical journals in England, India, and the United States. Dr. Woodbury was also a writer of plays and poetry.