Robert Walter

Robert Walter (February 14, 1841 – October 26, 1921) was a Canadian American physician and natural hygiene proponent.

Biography

Walter was born in Acton, Canada West. As a young man he moved to Danville, New York, where he studied medicine. He graduated from the Hygeio-Therapeutic College of New York in 1873 and the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1888. He worked as a homeopath and hydrotherapist for twenty-five years. He married Eunice C. Lippincott in 1872. They had three daughters and two sons. His book Vital Science makes frequent reference to Biblical literature. Walter was a member of the Society of Friends. It was negatively reviewed in medical journals. The book espoused fasting, homeopathic medicine and vitalism.

Walter died on October 26, 1921, in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Selected publications

Vital Science Based Upon Life's Great Law: The Analogue of Gravitation (1899) The Exact Science of Health (1903) The Power That Cures (The New England Medical Gazette, 1914)