To the Editor of the Recorder:.
My husband was a practising physician of homoeopathy in Southern Illinois for fifty years and accumulated a large medical and surgical library in those years. He died two years ago and I would like to dispose of the book and also his splendid collections of instruments and drugs. He was a subscriber to your Homoeopathic Recorder and I have taken your name from that publication.
I realize that during the war is a bad time to dispose of these items, but if you know of any young physician who might use them I will appreciate hearing from you. We in Chester greatly need a homoeopathic physician, as the people have never been without one for almost one hundred years until now and they are like “sheep without a shepherd.” A fine practice awaits the right man.
NELLE A. ASZMAN.
Allan D. Sutherland was born in Northfield, Vermont in 1897, delivered by the local homeopathic physician. The son of a Canadian Episcopalian minister, his father had arrived there to lead the local parish five years earlier and met his mother, who was the daughter of the president of the University of Norwich. Four years after Allan’s birth, ministerial work lead the family first to North Carolina and then to Connecticut a few years afterward.
Starting in 1920, Sutherland began his premedical studies and a year later, he began his medical education at Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia.
Sutherland graduated in 1925 and went on to intern at both Children’s Homeopathic Hospital and St. Luke’s Homeopathic Hospital. He then was appointed the chief resident at Children’s. With the conclusion of his residency and 2 years of clinical experience under his belt, Sutherland opened his own practice in Philadelphia while retaining a position at Children’s in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department.
In 1928, Sutherland decided to set up practice in Brattleboro.