George W. Carey

For other people named George Carey, see George Carey (disambiguation).

George Washington Carey (September 7, 1845 – November 16/17, 1924) - Born in Dixon, Lee County, Illinois, and died in San Diego, California. He was an American homeopath and occultist known for a number of 1910s ‘chemistry of life’ publications, a subject which he referred to as biochemistry, particularly his 1919 The Chemistry of Human Life, all generally using a mixture of religion, astrology, physiology, anatomy, and chemistry, themed particularly with a mineral-based theory of human disease.^[1] Carey is popular among homeopathic and new age circles. In the context of a person viewed as a "human molecule", Carey was the first to state that a person's body is a “chemical formula in operation.”

George W. Carey

Carey was influenced by Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler ideas about "cell salts". He founded his own biochemical college.^[2]

Publications

• The Biochemic System of Medicine: Comprising the Theory, Pathological Action, Therapeutical Application, Materia Medica, and Repertory of Schuessler's Twelve Tissue Remedies (1894)
• The Tree of Life: An Expose of Physical Regenesis on the Three-Fold Plane of Bodily, Chemical and Spiritual Operation (1917)
• The Wonders of the Human Body: Physical Regeneration According to the Laws of Chemistry and Physiology (1918)
• The Anti-Christ (1918)
• The Chemistry of Human Life (1919)
• God-Man: The Word Made Flesh (with Inez Eudora Perry, 1920)
• Road to the Moon: A Great Occult Story (1924)
• The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation (with Inez Eudora Perry, 1932)

References

1. Behncke, F.H. (1996). Pioneer Teachers (George W. Carey, pg. 47). Health Research Books .
2. Haller, John S. (2009). The History of American Homeopathy: From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care. Rutgers University Press. pp. 50-51. ISBN 978-0-8135-4583-7