"conclusions are disputed. Crippen was born in Coldwater, Michigan, to Andresse Skinner (died 1909) and Myron Augustus Crippen (1827–1910), a merchant. Crippen studied first at the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical School and graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College in 1884. Crippen's first wife, Charlotte, died of a stroke in 1892, and Crippen entrusted his parents, living in California, with the care of his two-year-old son, Hawley Otto. Having qualified as a homeopath, Crippen started to practice in New York, where in 1894 he married his second wife, Corrine ""Cora"" Turner (stage name: Belle Elmore), born Kunigunde Mackamotski to"
"Ethel Le Neve Ethel Clara Neave (22 January 1883 – 9 August 1967), known as Ethel Le Neve, was the mistress of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, a homeopath hanged for the murder and mutilation of his wife in 1910. She was born in Diss, Norfolk, the eldest child of Walter William Neave and Charlotte Anne Neave (""née"" Jones), Ethel was hired as a typist by Crippen in 1900 and was his mistress by 1905. After the murder of Crippen's wife, Cora, they fled the country on the on which the couple aroused the suspicion of the ship's master, who telegraphed"
"relatives in Michigan have begun lobbying for his remains to be repatriated to the United States. A theory which was first propounded by Edward Marshall Hall was that Crippen was using hyoscine on his wife as a depressant or anaphrodisiac, but accidentally gave her an overdose and then panicked when she died. It is said that Hall declined to lead Crippen's defence because another theory was to be propounded. In 1981, newspapers reported that Sir Hugh Rhys Rankin claimed to have met Ethel Le Neve in 1930 in Australia and that on that occasion, she told him that Crippen murdered"
"subsequently fled, it was Dew who tracked him down. Despite claiming that he was Harms' near identical cousin Henry Clifford, a pretence he maintained even when confronted by the wife he had previously abandoned, Friedlauski/Harms was sentenced to six years penal servitude for fraud and bigamy. Doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen was an American, born in Michigan in 1862. He qualified as a doctor in 1885 and worked for a patent medicine company. Coming to England in 1900, he lived at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Holloway, with his second wife Cora Turner, better known by her stage name of 'Belle Elmore'. After"
"a German mother and a Polish-Russian father. She was a would-be music hall singer who openly had affairs. In 1894 Crippen started working for Dr Munyon's, a homeopathic pharmaceutical company. In 1897, Crippen transferred to England with his wife, although his US medical qualifications were not sufficient to allow him to practise as a doctor in the UK. As Crippen continued working as a distributor of patent medicines, Cora socialised with a number of variety players of the time, including Lil Hawthorne of The Hawthorne Sisters and Lil's husband/manager John Nash. Crippen was sacked by Munyon's in 1899 for spending"
"was proven that the Czechoslovak state security secret police had used hyoscine at least three times to obtain confessions from alleged antistate dissidents. In 1910, hyoscine was detected in the remains believed to be those of Cora Crippen, wife of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, and was accepted at the time as the cause of her death, since her husband was known to have bought some at the start of the year. The drug is known to produce loss of memory following exposure and sleepiness, similar to the effect of benzodiazepines or alcohol poisoning, which affects the ability of a person"
"northern New York and Canada. Dr. Slepian was the fourth doctor and up to that time the seventh person in the USA to be murdered for performing abortions. Following Dr. Slepian's murder, Kopp fled the U.S., but was arrested in France and extradited. He was tried and convicted of second-degree murder in Buffalo and is currently serving a 25 years to life term of imprisonment. The Ani DiFranco song ""Hello Birmingham"", from her 1999 album ""To The Teeth"", was written as a response to the Slepian murder. Barnett Slepian Barnett Abba Slepian (April 23, 1946 – October 23, 1998) was"
"were Constantin (1840–1885), Francis Louis (born 1845) and William Alphonse (1850–1912). William Alphonse and his second wife survived him. Adolph Lippe Adolph Lippe (11 May 1812 near Goerlitz, Prussia – 23 January 1888 in Philadelphia) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. His parents were Count Ludwig (1781–1860) and Countess Auguste (1795–1856) of Lippe-Weissenfeld. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania,"
"physician Hawley Crippen and his lover, Ethel Le Neve had fled England after the circumstances around his wife's death were questioned. After a body was found in the basement of Crippen's north London residence, Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Walter Dew sought the couple for murder charges. One theory had the couple sailing from Dover on , but when inspected in New York on arrival, Crippen and Le Neve were not to be found. The fleeing couple had instead sailed on the ""Montrose"" from Antwerp on 20 July. Crippen, identified on ""Montrose"" after the vessel received a description of the pair"
"Singer/songwriter, Ani DiFranco wrote and performed the song, ""Hello, Birmingham"" about Kopp's shooting of Dr. Slepian. It is the sixth track on her tenth studio album, ""To The Teeth."" James Charles Kopp James Charles Kopp (born August 2, 1954) is an American citizen who was convicted in 2003 for the 1998 sniper-style murder of Barnett Slepian, an American physician from Amherst, New York who performed abortions. Prior to his capture, Kopp was on the FBI's list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. On June 7, 1999 he had become the 455th fugitive placed on the list by the FBI. He was"
"Barnett Slepian Barnett Abba Slepian (April 23, 1946 – October 23, 1998) was an American physician and abortion provider who was murdered in his home by James Charles Kopp. Slepian was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Rochester, New York; his grandfather was a Jewish immigrant from Russia. Slepian graduated from the University of Denver with a zoology degree but failed to be accepted to any American medical school. He graduated from Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara medical school in 1978. Dr. Slepian worked at Buffalo GYN Womenservices, Inc. in Buffalo, New York, providing abortion for members of the local"
"at approximately 10 p.m., Barnett Slepian was standing in the kitchen of his home in Amherst, New York. Kopp fired a single shot from a rifle from a nearby wooded area, which entered the Slepian home through a rear window. Slepian was a well-known obstetrician/gynecologist who performed abortions at a women's clinic in Buffalo, New York. He also maintained a private medical practice in an office in Amherst, New York. Within hours of the murder, anti-abortion militants posted Slepian's name crossed out on their internet website, which also served as ""a virtual hit list of doctors who carry out abortions""."
"Hans Alfred Nieper Hans Alfred Herbert Eugen Nieper (23 May 1928 – 21 October 1998) was a controversial German alternative medicine practitioner who devised ""Nieper Therapy"". He is best known for his claims to be able to treat cancer, multiple sclerosis, and other serious diseases. In 1986 an FDA release discredited his therapy as ineffective and unsafe. There is, however, no record official record of this FDA release. Hans Nieper was born in Hanover, Germany on May 23, 1928. His parents - who were both physicians - were Ferdinand Nieper (b. 1887) and Margarete Krauss (b.1898). They were married in"
"his wife because she had syphilis. Whether Crippen murdered his wife has been disputed. The novelist Raymond Chandler commented that it seemed unbelievable that Crippen would successfully dispose of his wife's limbs and head and then, rather stupidly, bury her torso under the cellar floor of his home. Dornford Yates, a novelist who was a junior barrister at the trial, records that the remains were placed in lime so that they would be destroyed, but suggests that Crippen failed to realise that while dry quicklime destroys, if water is added, it becomes slaked lime and preserves. Yates used this fact"
"with the assistance of Dr. Benjamin Rush, brought about his forced resignation. He was subsequently court martialed for misappropriating supplies intended for recovering soldiers and underreporting deaths, but was acquitted on a technicality. Shippen was among the founders of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and served as its president 1805-1808. He was also a member of the original board of trustees of Old Pine Street Church. Shippen was married to Alice Lee (1736–1817), the daughter of Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison Ludwell. Together, they were the parents of: Shippen died on July 11, 1808 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. William"
"suffered because of these and giving evidence at the trial, on 7 April 1911 HM Treasury authorised the payment of £100 in respect of expenses incurred and loss sustained by the couple in connection with the case of Rex v. Crippen. Lil Hawthorne died in 1926 aged 49. Lil Hawthorne Lil Hawthorne (1877–1926) was an American-born British stage beauty, music hall performer and pantomime Principal Boy. In 1910, Lil was involved in bringing Dr. Crippen to justice for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen, whom she had regarded as a good friend prior to her death. Born in"
"Erik Jorpes Johan Erik Jorpes (born Johansson, 15 July 1894 – 10 July 1973) was a Finnish-born Swedish physician and biochemist. He identified the chemical structure of heparin and developed its clinical applications. Jorpes was the professor of medical chemistry in the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1946–1963. Erik Jorpes was born as Johan Erik Johansson to a poor fisherman's family in the village of Överboda in Kökar, Åland Islands. The family lived in a house called ""Jorpes"", which he later adopted as his last name to replace the patronyme ""Johansson"". After the primary school, his parents send the talented"
"Lil Hawthorne Lil Hawthorne (1877–1926) was an American-born British stage beauty, music hall performer and pantomime Principal Boy. In 1910, Lil was involved in bringing Dr. Crippen to justice for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen, whom she had regarded as a good friend prior to her death. Born in Nashville in Illinois as Lillian Hawthorne, she started her variety career in America at the age of 14 as part of the song and dance trio ""The Hawthorne Sisters"" with her sisters, Lola and Nellie (1891–1898). She performed with her sisters in Boston and New York before transferring"
"Sir Edward Marshall Hall theorised that murderer Hawley Harvey Crippen was using hyoscine on his wife as an anaphrodisiac but accidentally gave her an overdose and then panicked when she died. Various forms of anaphrodisiacs have been promulgated at various periods in an attempt to cure hypersexuality in both humans and non-human animals. In both medieval history and modern times, anaphrodisiacs have been used as a tool intended to reduce the sex drive of sex offenders. Studies have evaluated the effect of herbal anaphrodisiacs on men and women. These include studies on the effect of substances on both hormone levels"
"be the only Japanese Methodist Episcopal bishop, was among those on the liner when she sailed on 31 May. News accounts reported on some of the unusual activities aboard ""Kroonland"" during this trip. Among them were morning devotional services held daily in the ship's dining room, and the spontaneous singing of hymns on deck every evening. ""Kroonland"" was tangentially involved in a more sinister affair in July 1910. American physician Hawley Crippen and his lover, Ethel La Neve, had fled England after the circumstances around his wife's death were questioned. After a body was found in the basement of Crippen's"
"Adolph Lippe Adolph Lippe (11 May 1812 near Goerlitz, Prussia – 23 January 1888 in Philadelphia) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. His parents were Count Ludwig (1781–1860) and Countess Auguste (1795–1856) of Lippe-Weissenfeld. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He moved to Pottsville, thence to Carlisle, where he remained six years, and"
"(b. 1896) in 1930. Erik Jorpes Johan Erik Jorpes (born Johansson, 15 July 1894 – 10 July 1973) was a Finnish-born Swedish physician and biochemist. He identified the chemical structure of heparin and developed its clinical applications. Jorpes was the professor of medical chemistry in the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1946–1963. Erik Jorpes was born as Johan Erik Johansson to a poor fisherman's family in the village of Överboda in Kökar, Åland Islands. The family lived in a house called ""Jorpes"", which he later adopted as his last name to replace the patronyme ""Johansson"". After the primary school, his"
"James Charles Kopp James Charles Kopp (born August 2, 1954) is an American citizen who was convicted in 2003 for the 1998 sniper-style murder of Barnett Slepian, an American physician from Amherst, New York who performed abortions. Prior to his capture, Kopp was on the FBI's list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. On June 7, 1999 he had become the 455th fugitive placed on the list by the FBI. He was affiliated with the militant Roman Catholic anti-abortion group known as ""The Lambs of Christ"". He has been referred to as a terrorist by the National Memorial Institute for the"
"George C. Nichopoulos George Constantine Nichopoulos (October 29, 1927 – February 24, 2016), also known as Dr. Nick, was an American physician of Greek descent. He was best known as Elvis Presley's personal physician and was controversial due to the singer's longstanding and ultimately fatal abuse of prescription drugs. Born in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, Nichopoulos moved to Anniston, Alabama, during his infancy where his father, a Greek immigrant, opened a restaurant called Gus' Sanitary Cafe. From 1946 until 1948, he served in the Army Medical Corps in Germany before studying at the , where he received his B.S. in 1951. Nichopoulos"
"Charles Nelson Crittenton Charles Nelson Crittenton (February 20, 1833 – November 16, 1909) was a manufacturer and distributor of drugs and patent medicines, a Protestant evangelist, and a philanthropist, best known for his founding with physician Katherine Waller Barrett of the National Florence Crittenton Mission. Born in Henderson in Jefferson County, New York, Crittenton went into the drug business in New York City in 1861. However, after 1882, when his four-year-old daughter Florence died of scarlet fever, he devoted his time and wealth to the establishment of the Florence Night Mission to ""rescue"" prostitutes, and later Crittenton homes for homeless"
"Spilsbury, could not identify the remains or even discern whether they were male or female. However, Spilsbury found a piece of skin with what he claimed to be an abdominal scar consistent with Cora's medical history. Large quantities of the toxic compound hyoscine were found in the remains, and Crippen had bought the drug before the murder from a local chemist. Crippen's defence, led by Alfred Tobin, maintained that Cora had fled to America with another man named Bruce Miller and that Cora and Hawley had been living at the house since only 1905, suggesting a previous owner of the"
"Alexander Lipmann-Kessel ""Lipmann Kessel"", MBE, MC, FRCS (19 December 1914 – 5 June 1986), was a famous orthopaedic surgeon and Second World War medical officer, often known by his nickname of Lippy. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, he was involved at the Battle of Arnhem where at the time he was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), assigned to the 16th (Parachute) Field Ambulance. He is credited with saving the life of Brigadier John Winthrop Hackett Junior when he operated on him for a severe abdominal wound at the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Arnhem. Kessel had the"
"North London residence, Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Walter Dew sought the couple for murder charges. One theory had the couple sailing from Dover on ""Kroonland"", but when inspected in New York on arrival, Crippen and Le Neve were not to be found. The fleeing couple had instead sailed from Antwerp on the Canadian Pacific liner . Crippen, identified during ""Montrose""s crossing, was arrested, convicted of his wife's murder, and hanged; La Neve was acquitted. The American novelist Theodore Dreiser, returning from an extended European tour in April 1912, briefly considered returning on , but instead sailed two days later on"
"was successful in his treatment of the epidemics that then prevailed in Cumberland Valley. He then settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. He devoted himself to establishing the claims of homeopathy, and augmenting and improving its materia medica. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of: He married Theresia Eichhorn and later Louise Augustine d'Arcy. Of his six children, two daughters died in infancy. His only other daughter was Auguste Camilla (1847–1884). His three sons"
"Henry George Kendall Henry George Kendall (30 January 1874 – 28 November 1965) was a British sea captain who survived several shipwrecks, including an attack by a German submarine during the First World War, and was also noted for his role in the capture of murderer Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen. Captain Henry Kendall began his career in sailing ships in 1888 at the age of 14. Eight years later he married Jane ""Minnie"" Jones. In 1900 he survived a shipwreck on the Newfoundland coast when he was an officer on the SS ""Lusitania"" (not the later Cunarder torpedoed in the"
"a suspect for this heinous crime. An independent observer points out that the case did not become public until after the remains were found. In December 2009, the Criminal Cases Review Commission, having reviewed the case, declared that the Court of Appeal will not hear the case to pardon Crippen posthumously. In the Museum of Automata in the Tibidabo Amusement Park in Barcelona, there is a piece that recreates the execution of Dr. Crippen. The machine dates from 1921 and is fully operational. A waxwork of Crippen can be seen in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussauds in London."
"Nicholas Culpeper Nicholas Culpeper (probably born at Ockley, Surrey, 18 October 1616 – died at Spitalfields, London, 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His books include ""The English Physitian"" (1652), otherwise known as the ""Complete Herbal"" (1653 ff.), which contains a store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, and ""Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick"" (1655), one of the most detailed documents known on the practice of medical astrology in Early Modern Europe. He spent much of his life in outdoors cataloguing hundreds of medicinal herbs. He criticized what he saw as"
"Joseph Edward Smadel Joseph Edward Smadel (1907–1963) was a U.S. physician and virologist. He introduced chloramphenicol as treatment for rickettsial diseases. In 1962, he became the first recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research . Smadel was born in Vincennes, Indiana, the son of physician Joseph William Smadel and former nurse Clara Greene Smadel. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania then obtained a medical degree from the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis in 1931. It was at WU that he met his future wife, Elizabeth Moore. In Smadel was a member"