Edwin Hartley Pratt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American homeopath
Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1849
Place of Birth: Towanda, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1930
Profession: homeopath
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Edwin Hartley Pratt
- Edwin Hartley Pratt (1849–1930), or E.H.
- Pratt, was a prominent American practitioner of homeopathic medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- He originated the briefly popular practice of "orificial surgery", which sought to cure a variety of physical and psychological ills by surgical corrections to the various orifices of the body.
- He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Orificial Surgery. Pratt served for 20 years as attending surgeon for Cook County Hospital, and also founded his own institute, the Lincoln Park Sanitarium.
- His ideas were extremely popular for a time, but fell into general disrepute by the early 20th century.
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