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Dr. Heike Gypser
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Illustration Sources
Figure 1 from Fincke: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,
Patent Number 93980, August 1869.
Figure 2 from Thomas Skinner: “The Dynamisation of
Medicines,” The Organon 1(1878), p. 421.
Figure 3 from Thomas Skinner: “The Dynamisation of
Medicines,” The Organon 3(1880), p. 320.
Figure 4 from Thomas Skinner: “Dr. Skinner´s Centesimal
Fluxion Potentizer,” The Organon 1 (1878), p. 45.
About the Author
: Heike Gypser received her degree in
pharmacy, writing her dissertation on the history of poten-
tizing machines. She lectures at the University of Marburg
on the history of homeopathic pharmaceutics. A few blocks
from her home, at the Glees Academy for Homeopathic Phy-
sicians, is one of the potentizing machines used by Boericke
& Tafel.
The Author wishes to thank Daniel Cook MD for his help
combining and editing her two lectures.