author

Frederick Hiller

b. 1820

A 19th-century physician who wrote a spirited defense of homeopathy, his work captures a lively medical debate of the 1870s. Little biographical detail is easy to confirm, but his surviving book remains a window into the era’s competing ideas about healing.

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Allopathy and Homoeopathy Before the Judgment of Common Sense!

Allopathy and Homoeopathy Before the Judgment of Common Sense!

by Frederick Hiller

About the author

Frederick Hiller is known from the 1872 book Allopathy and Homoeopathy Before the Judgment of Common Sense!, published in San Francisco and credited to F. Hiller, M.D. Library and public-domain records identify the author as Frederick Hiller (1820– ), which confirms his birth year but leaves much of his life unclear.

From the book itself and its catalog records, he appears to have been a physician writing for a general audience rather than a literary celebrity. His best-known work argues strongly in favor of homeopathy and against mainstream medical practice of the time, making him part of a broader 19th-century conversation about medicine, evidence, and common sense.

Because reliable biographical sources on him are scarce, it is safest to treat him as a relatively obscure medical author whose reputation rests mainly on this one surviving publication.