When I read that Michael Quinn, homeopathic pharmacist and founder of Hahnemann Labs recently passed, I was stunned. I never met him, but have ordered remedies from the pharmacy. The quality has always been excellent and the customer service great.
He will be missed and the example of his life and contributions will live on. Here is an article on the making of homeopathic remedies, here.
True Enthusiast of Homeopathy Passes On this article can be found at the ArizonaHomeoapthic.org
Subject: FW: From HomeoNet written by David Warkentin
Michael Quinn had a massive stroke on Saturday, January 24th. He was at a conference in Maui with his wife April. He went into a deep coma, continued to hemorrhage, and his heart was failing. He did not regain consciousness and died early this morning. Though Michael was in a coma, Roger Morrison was able to say goodbye over the phone just before he died. (I have to say this image has stuck with me all day.)
He was 58.
Very very very sad…..
Michael was one of the true enthusiasts of Homeopathy. He studied homeopathy in the 1970s in Madison and through the twists and turns of life eventually became an allopathic pharmacist – though his dream was to be a homeopathic pharmacist. When he heard that we were starting the Hahnemann Clinic 25? years ago and that there might be need for an on-site pharmacist he was literally overjoyed.
The pharmacy he founded, the Hahnemann Pharmacy, was among the most careful and precise in the world. He began in our offices and as his reputation grew moved to huge offices across the bay. He has been a very good and loyal friend to all here for many years.
His death comes as a shock and he will be deeply missed.
Perhaps others will feel the urge to add stories about Michael….
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Michael said of himself:
Michael Quinn, Founder, President, and Chief Pharmacist of Hahnemann Laboratories, Inc.
I first heard about Homeopathy in 1974. I studied and began practicing Homeopathy as a lay person for several years. Because of my experience in and love of research laboratory work, I became professionally committed to Homeopathy, and decided to become a homeopathic pharmacist.
Graduating from the Pharmacy School at Oregon State University in 1979, for six years I learned my profession as a hospital pharmacist at the University of California San Diego Medical Center, where my job titles were Senior Pharmacist and Supervisor of the Intravenous Admixture Service of the Department of Pharmacy.
I started Hahnemann Laboratories Inc. in 1985, beginning first as a retail pharmacy devoted exclusively to providing homeopathic medicines to the patients of some of the finest homeopaths in the world, at the Hahnemann Clinic in Berkeley, California.
After a year of dissatisfaction with the quality of the remedies available at that time, the doctors urged me to begin preparing the medicines myself. I consulted with an engineer and together we produced a homeopathic remedy preparation machine which makes remedies in as close a manner as possible to the traditional method of making remedies by hand. (For photos of and more information about this machine see Methods of Preparation.) Over the years, in my pharmacy I have prepared more and more of the homeopathic medicines myself on this machine.
The doctors who used these medicines found them remarkably effective and referred my pharmacy to their colleagues. Demand for our remedies grew until, in 1997, we opened an FDA licensed homeopathic pharmaceutical laboratory, in addition to our pharmacy.
