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Frederick Hiller
b. 1820
A Berlin-born physician who built his career in San Francisco, he wrote energetic defenses of homeopathy in the 1870s and took part in the city’s medical debates. His surviving works show a doctor keen to argue his case in print and reach a wider public.
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Allopathy and Homoeopathy Before the Judgment of Common Sense!
by Frederick Hiller
About the author
Born in Berlin, Prussia, on September 30, 1820, Frederick Hiller trained at the Royal Academy for Surgeons in the Army in Berlin and graduated in 1840. A later biographical note says that after army service and further clinical study in Paris, Prague, Vienna, and Berlin, he eventually settled in San Francisco, where he practiced medicine.
Hiller is best remembered as a homeopathic physician and medical writer. His published works include Allopathy and Homoeopathy Before the Judgment of Common Sense! (1872) and Diphtheria (1877), both of which reflect his interest in public medical controversy as well as clinical questions.
Although not a widely known literary figure today, his books preserve the voice of a 19th-century doctor working at the intersection of medicine, argument, and reform. For readers of historical medical writing, they offer a glimpse of the fierce debates that shaped healthcare in his era.