Schupbach, Jaques Frédéric Alexandre

Papers relating to the Society for the Study of Physiological Patterns (of which he was a founder), and other materials on alternative medicine, including lecture notes, correspondence and case notes, 1945-1988.

1945-1988

1 box Paper

Arranged by file type as follows: 1-2 Correspondence 3 Reports 4-14 Case notes 15 Lecture notes 16 Miscellaneous 17-19 Publications

These papers were donated to the Contemporary Medical Aarchives Centre (now the library at Wellcome Collection) in June 1989 by E Schupbach (brother of J F A Schupbach) resident in Switzerland, and we are grateful also to William Schupbach of the library at Wellcome Collection, who provided the biographical notes.

Jaques Frederic Alexandre Schupbach was born in London on 11 July 1906, the son of Alexandre Schupbach, a Swiss working for the Credit Lyonnais in London, and Marguerite nee Ulliac, a member of a Breton family removed to Neuchâtel. He was educated at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire, a vegetarian establishment. In the 1930s he worked for various government organisations. The stages in the development of his medical interests and practice are unknown. He was a member of the Astrological Lodge, the Theosophical Society, the British Phrenological Society, the British Dowsing Society, and the Fraternite Blanche Universalle. He was a member of several orchestras in which he played the violin and the viola. He lived in Church Road, Barnes, from the 1940s to his death in June 1989. At his death, his large library of books on social psychology, occult sciences etc was dispersed: the bulk of the medical books are now in the Wellcome Library. These papers form a small selection, made virtually at random, from a vast collection of letters, notes, etc, of which the remainder were destroyed. Some of the case-notes revealed that he had treated certain patients over many years.

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