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Edwin M. (Edwin Moses) Hale
1829–1899
A 19th-century American physician and medical writer, he became one of the best-known homeopathic authors of his time. His books ranged from materia medica and therapeutics to practical works on animal health, showing an unusually broad medical curiosity.
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Ilex cassine, the aboriginal North American tea Its history, distribution, and use among the native North American Indians
by Edwin M. (Edwin Moses) Hale
About the author
Born in Newport, New Hampshire, in 1829, Edwin Moses Hale built a long career as an American physician, teacher, and author. Sources found for this profile consistently connect him with homeopathic medicine and with a large body of medical writing published in the second half of the 19th century.
Hale is especially remembered for works on materia medica and therapeutics, including studies of what he called "new remedies," as well as later large reference-style medical texts. Catalog and library records also show the surprising range of his interests: alongside professional medical books, he wrote The Cat and Its Diseases, a well-known animal-care title from 1885.
He died in 1899. Because the available sources here are mostly library catalogs, public-domain author pages, and historical summaries rather than a full modern biography, some personal details are less clear than his publishing record; what stands out most with confidence is his influence as a prolific medical author of the late 1800s.