Tomás Pellicer Frutos

Tomás Pellicer Frutos (1816 to 1902) was a Spanish physician and one of the pioneers of homeopathy in Spain. Born in Era Alta, Murcia, he went to Madrid to study medicine and obtained his degree from the University of Valencia in 1837. In 1846 he learned of the work of Samuel Hahnemann, and after moving to Madrid in 1853 he joined the Hahnemannian Society of Madrid. In 1873 he promoted the founding of the Homeopathic Institute of Madrid and of the San José Hospital, the first homeopathic hospital built in Spain, where he became a professor and, in 1880, director. He held several royal orders, was a consultant to the Hahnemann Hospital in Paris from 1867 and served as physician of the Spanish royal household. He died in Murcia in 1902 at the age of 86.