Business leader Charles Kettering (GM and NCR) and physician Charles Menninger (co-founder of the Menninger clinic) were supporters of homeopathy.
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Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958), General Motors & National Cash Register
Charles (“Boss”) Kettering served as Vice President of General Motors, and was widely recognized as the greatest America inventor and engineer since Thomas Edison. He held over 300 patents. Some of his inventions included the all-electric starting ignition, ethyl gasoline, and Duco paint (a trade name of a lacquer paint used on cars). He also started the Delco Company (which creates car batteries and which GM purchased).
Early in Kettering’s career, he worked for National Cash Register, a company that maintained a clinic for their employees that was staffed by homeopathic doctors. Kettering publicly acknowledged the health benefits he received due to the skills of Thomas Addison (T.A.) McCann, MD (1858-1943), his homeopathic physician from Dayton, Ohio.
In 1914 Ohio State University (OSU) formally decided to open a College of Homeopathic Medicine. In 1920 Kettering gave a $1,000,000 contribution to Ohio State University with a stipulation that it be used to create a homeopathic research laboratory. This action enraged the AMA and the Carnegie Foundation and thrust them into further proactive efforts to stop this homeopathic department.
However, shortly after this contribution, representatives from the A.M.A. visited the school’s president and warned him that teaching homeopathic medicine could result loss of their medical accreditation status. Shortly after this meeting, Ohio State University returned Kettering’s entire contribution because they decided to close down the school of homeopathic medicine.
Charles Frederick Menninger, MD (1862-1953)
Charles Frederick Menninger, MD was the original cofounder (with his son, Karl Menninger, MD) of the famed Menninger Clinic, the internationally respected mental health clinic, initially located in Topeka, Kansas. He was a homeopathic physician and the head of his local homeopathic medical society. He also authored numerous articles published in homeopathic medical journals. In one of these articles, he stated with vigor, “Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine.” He goes on to assert, “it is imperative that we exhaust the homeopathic healing art before resorting to any other mode of treatment, if we wish to accomplish the greatest success possible.”
Find out more detailed information of Dr. Menninger’s involvement in and commitment to homeopathy and find out which other leading physicians, scientists, and cultural heroes have used and/or appreciated homeopathic medicines in Dana Ullman’s Homeopathy Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy (available October 2007; published by North Atlantic Books and Random House). See a copy of the Table of Contents, a sample chapter on “Literary Greats,” and a series of supportive quotes for the book from professors at Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown, and others at www.homeopathicrevolution.com.