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A Living Chronicle: A Tapestry of People, Events and Institutions
FOUNDATIONS OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGEBASE
1835 A Defense of the Graham System of Living: Or, Remarks on Diet and Regimen. Dedicated to the Rising Generation. (Sylvester Graham).••
1835 Louis Kuhne (d. 1901) Known for cold water hydrotherapy methods and vegetarian diet. Introduced concept of “unity of disease,” adopted as the fundamental concept of illness and healing of pathology (through detoxification, vital force) by early naturopaths. Central concept adopted
in H. Lindlahr’s seminal theory. Called founder and first master of naturopathy in Lust’s Universal Directory. •••
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
1836 Botanico-Medical College of Ohio founded by Alva Curtis, MD, in Columbus, OH, without state charter. Pioneering school of botanical medicine education. Moved to Cincinnatti and renamed in 1839.
1836 College of Medicine founded in New York City, NY; Botanic; closed 1846.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
1837 The American Physiological Society formed in Boston by William Alcott and Sylvester Graham; influential in the popular Hygienic movement.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGEBASE
1837 Enchiridion Medicum (The Practice ofMedicine). (Christof Hufeland). ••
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
1839 American Medical College (Eclectic) founded in Cincinnati, OH. Merges with Eclectic Medical Institute in 1857.
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1839 Literary and Botanico-Medical Institute of Ohio opened by Alva Curtis, MD, as a state- chartered school; moved to Cincinnati, OH, in 1841.
1839 Medical Department Pennsylvania College founded in Philadelphia, PA. 1859, absorbed Philadelphia College of Medicine and Surgery. 1863, absorbed by Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia.
1839 Southern Botanico-Medical College founded in Forsyth, GA; first graduates, 1841. 1846, moved to Macon, GA. 1854, became Reform Medical College of Georgia. Suspended 1861–1867; reformed as 1874 College of American Medicine and Surgery. 1884, charter transferred to Georgia College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGEBASE
1839 Adolph von Lippe, MD, emigrates to United States. Attends Allentown Academy
of the Homoeopathic Healing Art. Granted diploma in 1841. Chair of Materia Medica at the Homoeopathic College of Pennsylvania, 1863-1868. Strict Hahnemanian, renowned for major contributions to homeopathic literature: philosophy, methods, practice, materia medica, clinical cases.
1840-1844
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
1841 Literary and Botanico-Medical Institute of Ohio moves to Cincinnati, OH.
1842 Reformed Medical College of Cincinnati founded; closes or merges 1845.
Naturopathic Medicine 19 HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL FORMATION TIMELINE
