DR MARGARET L TYLER A Memoir

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Tributes to her have come in from every side, well deserved, prompted by love, gratitude and appreciation. Many of the present generation of homoeopathic physicians in this country owe much to Dr. Tyler’s interest in post-graduate study of the subject, and there is a deep sense of loss amongst the profession, and a feeling of gratitude to this selfless woman.

With the passing of Dr. Margaret L. Tyler, Homoeopathy loses one of its outstanding personalities, whose missionary work in writing and teaching has disseminated its knowledge far and wide.

Tributes to her have come in from every side, well deserved, prompted by love, gratitude and appreciation. Many of the present generation of homoeopathic physicians in this country owe much to Dr. Tyler’s interest in post-graduate study of the subject, and there is a deep sense of loss amongst the profession, and a feeling of gratitude to this selfless woman.

Dr. Tyler took up the study of medicine in order to be able to help others by the practice of the treatment she knew, through the experience of her family and herself, to be of such value to suffering humanity.

Her work for over forty years at the London Homoeopathic Hospital has borne much fruit. Her greatest joy was in the Out Patients Department, amongst her friends, as she termed the patients. There she was truly happy, and her name will live on in the Tyler Wing, which her father, Sir Henry Tyler, gave to the Hospital.

Perhaps the greatest scope for her missionary work in Homoeopathy has been through her editorship of the journal Homoeopathy which she ran for eleven years, and which has been described in a contemporary as “one of the best journals of pure homoeopathy published.” Her correspondence course and her Drug Pictures are two valuable pieces of work which have helped, and will continue to be useful to doctors the world over, and will remain as lasting monuments to her memory.

In a recent number of the Homoeopathic Recorder (U.S.A), Dr. Tyler is described as “one of the grandest, greatest and most beloved teachers and writers of the present day,” an epitaph which will universally be endorsed by her friends and colleagues.

Despite failing health, she worked to the very end, and died in service. It is typical that almost her last quotation was: “At the end of life we shall not be asked how much pleasure we have had in it, but how much of service we gave in it; not how full of success, but how full of sacrifice; not how happy we were, but how helpful we were”.

Dr. Tyler s memory and influence will live in the hearts of many she died on the 21st of June, 1943, having “served her generation, by the will of God”.

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John Weir
Sir John Weir (1879 – 1971), FFHom 1943. John Weir was the first modern homeopath by Royal appointment, from 1918 onwards. John Weir was Consultant Physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1910, and he was appointed the Compton Burnett Professor of Materia Medica in 1911. He was President of the Faculty of Homeopathy in 1923.
Weir received his medical education first at Glasgow University MB ChB 1907, and then on a sabbatical year in Chicago under the tutelage of Dr James Tyler Kent of Hering Medical College during 1908-9. Weir reputedly first learned of homeopathy through his contact with Dr Robert Gibson Miller.
John Weir wrote- Some of the Outstanding Homeopathic Remedies for Acute Conditions with Margaret Tyler, Homeopathy and its Importance in Treatment of Chronic Disease, The Trend of Modern Medicine, The Science and Art of Homeopathy, Brit Homeo Jnl, The Present Day Attitude of the Medical Profession Towards Homeopathy, Brit Homeo Jnl XVI, 1926, p.212ff, Homeopathy: a System of Therapeutics, The Hahnemann Convalescent Home, Bournemouth, Brit Homeo Jnl 20, 1931, 200-201, Homeopathy an Explanation of its Principles, British Homeopathy During the Last 100 Years, Brit Homeo Jnl 23, 1932: etc