Was Charles Darwin a reluctant homoeopath?

摘要

By the end of 2009, his bicentenary year, much will have been written about Charles Darwin. But I have yet to see mention of his brush with less conventional forms of medicine.For much of his life Darwin was plagued by mysterious illness. Symptoms included nausea and vomiting, heart palpitations, boils, trembling, fainting and spots before the eyes. By March 1849 he was unable to work one day out of every three and felt he was dying. On the advice of shipmates, he visited the homoeopathic clinic and water-cure spa of Dr James Gully.