John Epps
British homeopath
Dr John Epps (15 February 1805 – 12 February 1869) was an English physician, phrenologist and homeopath. He was also a political activist, known as a champion of radical causes on which he preached, lectured and wrote in periodicals.
Life
Early years and education
Epps, the eldest son of John Epps (see Epps family), was born into a Calvinist family in Sevenoaks, Kent on 15 February 1805. George Napoleon Epps was his half-brother.
Epps became disillusioned with the religious atmosphere of his childhood. After education at a dissenting academy and then Mill Hill School (near Hendon), he served an apprenticeship to an apothecary of the name of Dury or Durie.
In 1824, at the age of 18, Epps went to Edinburgh to study medicine, and in 1827 graduated at the age of 21. He conceived of medicine as 'a tool of liberation for the poor and lower classes'.
Medical practitioner and lecturer
After graduating Epps moved back to London where he began to practice, eventually settling in Great Russell Street. In 1831 he married.
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