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Egbert Guernsey was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, United States on July 8, 1823, and was descended from superior Puritan stock.
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Egbert Guernsey was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, United States on July 8, 1823, and was descended from superior Puritan stock.
Egbert Guernsey received his education at Phillips Andover Academy and then taught school for a time.
In 1843 he was in Europe and on his return began the study of medicine under Valentine Mott in the medical department of the University of the City of New York.
After his graduation in 1846 Egbert Guernsey worked for a time as manager of a large drug firm and then opened an office at Williamsburg, now part of Brooklyn, where he secured the appointment of city physician.
Egbert Guernsey was one of the founders, in 1848, of the Williamsburg Times (later the Brooklyn Daily Times) and edited it for eighteen months. During this period he also published two elementary school histories of the United States which were extensively used as textbooks.
As a result of overwork he suffered a breakdown and gave up his career for the time being to live quietly at Fishkill on the Hudson, where he later established a summer home.
In 1830, his health restored, he reentered practice, this time in New York City, and began to adopt some of the tenets and practices of homeopathy, although he never formally abandoned the old school of medicine and resorted apparently to the new doctrines only when his customary remedies failed to benefit his patients.
Owing to the ethics of the period, he was obliged to fraternize with colleagues who made use of homeopathic remedies. Perhaps it was because he could face both ways that he became phenomenally successful as a practitioner.
Having secured in 1851 the appointment as physician to the Home for the Friendless, Guernsey served in that capacity until 1865.
In 1853 he published Homoeopathic Domestic Practice, the title of which is usually given simply as Domestic Practice, which went through successive editions and was translated into French, German, Danish, and Spanish.
It was followed two years later by the Gentleman’s Handbook of Homoeopathy, a small manual designed especially for travelers.
In 1861 he was made professor of materia medica in the New York Homoeopathic Medical College and in 1864 he was given the chair of theory and practice which he resigned in 1867.
From 1864 to 1868 he was surgeon of the 6th New York Regiment.
In 1870 he established the Western Dispensary, known later as the Guernsey Maternity Hospital, which finally merged with the Hahnemann Hospital. He resumed his journalistic activities in 1873 with the establishment of the Medical Union, a journal which appeared later as the New York Journal of Homoeopathy, the Homoeopathic Times, and the Medical Times, and which up to the time of Guernsey’s death had published thirty-one volumes.
In 1877 Guernsey was the chief instrument in turning the Inebriate Asylum on Ward’s Island into the Metropolitan Hospital and was president of its medical board until his death.
He was also one of the founders of the Union League Club of New York, the Homoeopathic State Insane Asylum at Middletown, N. Y. , and several homeopathic training schools for nurses.
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Egbert Guernsey was a man of huge bulk and in the latter part of his life suffered from organic heart disease, yet he kept active almost to the end of his life.
His character and personality are said to have been memorialized in Bret Harte’s tale, The Man Whose Yoke Was Not Easy, and higher praise could hardly be awarded.
One of his ambitions, as shown by the files of the Medical Times, was to bring the homeopathic sect into greater harmony with the main body of practitioners, but Egbert Guernsey confessed that in this crusade he fell between two stools, sharing the fate of many peace-makers. Nevertheless, he must be credited in part for improving the relations between the two groups.
In 1848 Guernsey was married to Sarah Lefferts Schenck, but of their five children only one survived him.