Mélanie Hahnemann

She buried Gohier in Montmartre cemetery, and then two years later her foster-father the painter Lethière beside him. During the cholera epidemic of Paris in 1832, she became interested in homeopathy. In 1834, she visited Samuel Hahnemann, and the year after they married and moved to Paris, where they opened a clinic. She was his student and assistant and soon an independent homeopathist. She was given a diploma from Allentown Academy of The Homeopathic Healing Art, co-founded by John Helfrich (1795–1852) in Allentown, Pennsylvania. At the death of Samuel Hahnemann, she was entrusted with his clinic and the manuscript of his latest work, Organon. She continued with the practice, but in 1847, she was put on trial and found guilty of illegal practice. She continued to practice and was granted a medical license in 1872. She was a controversial person as both a woman physician and a woman homeopath. She is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

The authorities additionally record the headings Marie Mélanie d'Hervilly Gohier Hahnemann, Melanie Hahnemann, Marie d'Hervilly and Mélanie d'Hervilly. Her recorded language was French.