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Naturopathic Medicine
HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL FORMATION TIMELINE
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGEBASE
1830 Susannah Way Dodds, MD (d. 1915) 1866 graduate of the Hygeo-Therapeutic College of New York; influential Hygienic physician, educator, and organizer; involved in Cleveland Water Cure; authored many books and pamphlets. ••
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
1831 Cordelia Greene, MD (d. 1905) Influential pioneering female physician who emphasized simple life with a focus on healthy mind. Practiced at Clifton Springs Sanitarium (Ohio), Castile Sanitarium (New York). “Dr. Greene’s medical knowledge, her skill in diagnosis, and her original method of treatment by hot and cold water, by electricity, massage, vapor baths, and the system of exercises,” (Dr. E. Greene in Historical Wyoming, 1858), “were so successful in restoring health
to those who suffered from chronic ailments, that in a few years, the Water Cure at Castile became widely known all over the country.” Life- long commitment to social causes. First student to receive regular medical degree at Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (1853).••
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
1833 Worthington Medical College founded in Worthington, OH; 1839–1843 suspended. 1845, becomes Eclectic Medical Institute. 1857, absorbed American Medical College. 1859, absorbed Eclectic College of Medicine and Surgery. 1910, renamed Eclectic Medical College.
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
1833 Hahnemann and others open the first homeopathic hospital at Leipzig, Germany. Often troubled by ineffective practitioners who mixed allopathic and homeopathic methods. Closed 1842.
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FOUNDATIONS OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGEBASE
1833 Last German edition (5e) of The Organon
of Medicine published by Samuel Hahnemann.
6e published in 1921 (after Hahnemann’s death); based on notes to5e.; new concepts and methods introduced. ••
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGEBASE
1834 The Thomsonian Botanical Watchman. First issue published.
1834 M. Augusta Fairchild, MD (d. 1911) Authored How to be Well, or, Common-Sense Medical
Hygiene: A Book for the People (1879), giving directions for treatment and cure of acute diseases without use of drug medicines, and hints for general health care. Later published Woman and Health, A Mother’s Hygienic Hand Book (1890),
a small, popular work describing Hygienic care of the sick. Considered by some as first woman to graduate from a conventional medical school in the US. Operated Fairchild’s Healthery, later Fairchild Sanitarium, 1883-1903, Quincy, IL. ••
1834 Wilhelm Winternitz, MD (d. 1917) Viennese physician often characterized as the “father of scientific hydrotherapy.” ••
1835-1839
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
1835 Nordamerikanische Academie der Homoeopathische Heilkunst (The North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing Art); first homeopathic medical school in the US; founded
in Allentown, PA, by Henry Detwiller, William Wesselhoeft, MD (1794-1858) and others, with Constantine Hering, MD, as President. First Homeopathic Hospital also at Wesselhoeft house. Academy closed 1843.
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