- "The German-Speaking Community of Melbourne 1855-1865", Sunday 3 April 2011
- March Tour to the Wimmera, 12-14 March 2011
- Westgarthtown's 160th Anniversary, Saturday 21 November 2010
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Heike Bishop talks on "Homeopathy", Sunday 11 April 2010April 11, 2010 Our guest speaker, Heike Bishop, gave an excellent presentation on the topic "Survival in the Bush: German Homoeopathy (Homeopathy) in Australia". Heike Bishop, a homeopath from Adelaide, has written a thesis on this topic and gave this talk at a Friends of Lutheran Archives meeting in Adelaide in May 2009. She explained that homeopathic remedies involve the use of highly diluted substances, in tablet or liquid form, based on the philosophy "Let like be cured by like". The German settlers in the Barossa Valley had strong ties with homeopathy and the earliest such activity was recorded in the 1850s. These early settlers successfully treated their livestock and themselves with traditional homeopathic remedies and evidence for this can be found in the German Museum in Tanunda, where books and remedy chests are displayed. Homeopathy became the preferred method of treatment in the 1850s-1880s. Johann Zwar practised for over 50 years as a homeopathic doctor, using medicines imported from Leipzig. Wilhelm Heinrich Scholz of Light Pass in the Barossa Valley also practised homeopathy. His name appears in the Klemzig memorial as "Founded the Willows Hospital, Light's Pass, for orthopedic and homoeopathic medicine." President John Noack thanked Heike Bishop for travelling from Adelaide to present her interesting talk and thanked the Friends of Lutheran Archives (FoLAV) for co-sponsoring this event with the Wendish Heritage Society Aust. Inc.
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