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William G. Boericke (28 November 1849, Asch, Bohemia Austrian Empire – 1 April 1929, San Francisco) was an Austrian-born American physician and ardent, influential exponent of homœopathic medicine. He is known in the field today as the compiler and editor of the ''Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica.'' The ninth edition has endured as his most re-published version due partly to its then final inclusion of a mini-repertory〔 by his brother, Oscar Eugene Boericke, MD,〔 also a homœpathic physician.〔〔 == Career == ;Medical journal Boericke was the founding editor in November 1882 of the journal, ''The California Homœopath.'' The first five volumes were published bi-monthly. Willis Alonzo Dewey, MD (1858–1938) became co-editor with volume six. Charles Lewis Tisdale, MD (1859–1925), was added as editor with volume eight. With volume nine in 1892, the name changed to ''The Pacific Coast Journal of Homœpathy'' under a new editor, Hugo Emil Rudolph Arndt (1849–1913). Boericke was editor again from 1910 to 1915 and from 1918 to 1922. The journal ran until 1940, closing under the editorship of one of Boericke's sons, Charles Caleb Boericke, MD (1897–1965).〔 The publication had been the official of the state homœopathic medical societies of California, Oregon, and Washington.〔 ;Hospital and medical college in Northern California Boericke co-founded the Pacific Homœopathic Medical College and Hahnemann Hospital in 1881. In 1883, Boericke was a co-incorporator and founding faculty member of the Hahnemann Medical College of San Francisco, graduating its first class in October 1884.〔 The Hahnemann Medical College was absorbed by the University of California, San Francisco, Medical School in July 1918.〔 That same year, the University appointed Boericke as its first Homœopathic lecturer, a position he had held from 1883, at the original college, to 1922, at UCSF. Instruction in Homœopathy continued at UCSF until 1939, when the school dropped it from the curriculum.〔 ; Boericke & Tafal – publisher, manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer of homœopathic medicines In 1853, William Boericke's uncle, Francis Edmund Boericke (1826–1901), and Rudolph Leonhard Tafel (1831–1896) founded a book store, specializing in Swedenborgian literature, at 24 South 5th in Philadelphia. Upon the suggestion of Constantine Hering, they began to manufacture and sell homœopathic remedies. Within six months of the formation of the partnership, Rudolph Tafel left to assume a teaching position at the U.S. Naval Academy. That same year (1854), Francis Boericke married Rudolph Tafel's sister, Eliza Mathilda Tafel (1838–1904). Francis Boericke kept the small book store, and took-in Rudolph's brother, Adolph Julius Tafel (1839–1995), as an apprentice. In 1855, Adolph Tafel left for the West. In 1863, Francis Boericke earned a medical degree from the Homœpathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. In 1869, he formed a partnership with Adolph Tafel, Boericke & Tafel, a publishing company, homœopathic medicine wholesaler, retailer, and manufacturer, in Philadelphia, headquartered at Fifth Street, above Chesnut.〔 ;William Boericke's association with Boericke & Tafel When William Boericke graduated from public high school in Cincinnati in 1863, he moved to Philadelphia to work for the Boericke pharmacy. In 1870, Boericke & Tafel opened a branch in San Francisco called "Pioneer Homœopathic Pharmacy," located at 234 Sutter Street. William Boericke ran it from its inception. In 1876, William Boericke moved back to Philadelphia to attend Hahnemann Medical College, where he graduated with an MD in 1880.〔 He then studied at the Vienna Medical School for one year. ; Boericke & Schreck – publisher and retailer of homœopathic medicines In 1882, William Boericke moved back to San Francisco to practice medicine and, in the spring of that same year, he and Ernest Albert Schreck (1831–1886) purchased the Pioneer Homœopathic Pharmacy and henceforth named it Boericke & Schreck. ; Boericke and Runyon Company – publisher and retailer of homœopathic medicines Schreck died in 1886. In October 1890, Edward Wheelock Runyon (1851–1937)〔 purchased Schreck's half interest and the firm henceforth, until 1950, was known as "Boericke and Runyon." Around 1894, Boericke and Runyon took on another partner, Frederick O. Ernesty (1951–1959) and the firm became known as Boericke, Runyan & Ernesty. Ernesty sold his interest to Boericke and Runyon in 1899 and retired. Around 1920, Boericke and Runyon began producing popular non-prescription home-remedy medicines under the tradename EOPA, the middle four alpha characters from the word "Hom-eopa-thy." EOPA eventually became a subsidiary of Boericke and Runyon — Eopa Company — and distributed medicines nationwide. The Eopa Company operated nationally until the early 1950s. In 1877, Boericke & Tafel opened a pharmacy in Oakland at the Grand Central Hotel at 956 Broadway. They suspended operations in 1882, selling it to William Adelbert Brueck,〔("Editor's Table," ) ''The Medical Advance'', Ann Arbor & Cincinnati, Vol. 12, No. 6, June 1882, pg. 379; 〕 a homœopathic pharmacist who had been their manager. In 1886, Brueck sold it to Boericke and Schreck.〔 ;Boericke and Runyon after the death of William Boericke When William Boericke died in 1929, approximately three-fourths of the stock in Boericke & Tafel descended to his four surviving sons: (i) Garth Wilkinson Boericke, MD (1893–1968), (ii) William Fay Boericke (1885–1963), (iii) Charles Caleb Boericke, MD (1897–1965), (iv) Arthur Thacher Boericke (1899-1972). ;Boericke & Tafel in the latter 20th and early 21st centuries before the end of the 19th century, Boericke & Tafel, headquartered in Philadelphia, became the largest manufacturer of homœopathic medicines in the United States. In 1987, Boericke & Tafel was acquired by VSM (nl) (Voorhoeve Schwabe Merkgeneesmiddelen) of the Netherlands, a subsidiary of the Willmar Schwabe Group (de) of Germany. In 1992, Boericke & Tafel moved to Santa Rosa, California.〔〔 In 2005, Schwabe Pharmaceuticals closed its Santa Rosa manufacturing facilities and moved its marketing and distribution departments to a sister company, Nature's Way, in Utah, and its manufacturing to the Netherlands and Mexico, where Schwabe, at that time, had facilities that were underused.〔"Boericke & Tafel Closing Santa Rosa Offices; Company Shifting Operations to Europe, Mexico," ''Press Democrat'' (Santa Rosa, California), January 9, 2004〕 Boericke and Runyon Company was eventually, sometime after 1950, acquired by Boericke & Tafel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Boericke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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