Edward Barton Shuldham

Edward Barton Shuldham (1837–1924) MRCS MA Oxon was a British physician who graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and who eventually converted to homeopathy. He was a physician at the St. James Homeopathic Hospital, a member of the British Homeopathic Society, and an editor of "The Homeopathic World".^[1]

Among Shuldham's friends was Lewis Carroll, a homeopath and a stammerer, both matters that were of great interest to Shuldham. He was uncle and guardian to the twin artist prodigies, Edward Julius Detmold and Charles Maurice Detmold, nurturing their interest in art and natural history, and in 1899 helping to produce their first book "Pictures From Birdland", with 24 of their chromolithographic plates of exotic birds, and accompanying verses by Shuldham.

He was the author of numerous books on health topics including "The family homoeopathist", "Headaches: their causes and treatment", "The health of the skin", "Coughs and their cure", "Stammering and its rational treatment", "Clergyman’s sore throat, or follicular disease of the pharynx", and contributed case histories and articles to homeopathic publications. He died aged 86 in Hampstead, London in early 1924.

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