| Biography | Raphael Roche 1857 1945 was a Jewish homeopath who practiced in London, and who came from a well known musical family. He was the grandson of Ignaz Moscheles, and a famous pianist, conductor and musician in his own right. Roche was a physician at The Liverpool Homeopathic Dispensary, and a Member of the London Branch of the Medical Council and a Physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital. He treated George Bernard Shaw and Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson, and apparently cured a great many people of incurable diseases, including cancer. Raphael Roche was a friend of Arnold Bennett, Herbert George Wells, Almroth Edward Wright. He wrote "The Science of Medicine", and many books on music, as well as "Dithyrambs and Outrages: Voltaire seen by his contemporaries". |