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Naturopathic Medicine
HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL FORMATION TIMELINE
1892
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
American School of Osteopathy founded in Kirksville, MO, by Andrew Taylor Still; later renamed AT Still School of Osteopathy and Surgery.
Hering Medical College founded in Chicago, IL; first graduates, 1893; 1902, absorbed Dunham Medical College; closed 1913.
Southwestern Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital founded in Louisville, KY; first graduates, 1894; closed 1910.
FOUNDATIONS OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE
the California State Bureau of Food and Drug Inspection and died awaiting trial for her medical practices; nevertheless, her work influenced later development of electronic analysis and therapeutic technologies.
Stanley Lief, ND, DO, DC (d. 1963) England’s foremost naturopath and founder of British Naturopathic Association (BNA) and British College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy (BCNO); founded Champneys, a world famous natural health retreat; introduced Neuromuscular Technique, further developed with Boris Chaitow, DC, DO, ND (1907-1995), based on a traditional Asian technique, taught by Dr. Dewanchand Varma (ca. 1861-1950), an Ayurvedic physician working in Paris. ••
1893
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
1893 Hygeia Medical College founded in Cincinnati, OH; first graduates, 1895; closed 1899.
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Arkansas Eclectic Medical Journal. (Pub., W.L. Leister).
1894
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Denver Homeopathic College founded in Denver, CO; closed 1907.
Illinois Medical College founded in Chicago, IL; first graduates, 1895; 1910, absorbed by Bennett Medical College.
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DEFINITIONS, ETHICS, PRINCIPLES, AND THEORY
Sophie Scheel, a homeopath and faculty member at a homeopathic college, credited with originating the term “naturopathy” based on combining “nature cure” and “homeopathy.” Her husband, John Scheel, MD, a water curist, and homeopath, secures commercial rights to the term. Some sources date as 1895 or 1896.
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Ruth B. Drown, DC (d. 1965) controversial proponent of radionics, practiced in Los
Angeles, CA. Inventing the Drown Radio-Vision Instrument in 1935, Drown extended research of Albert Abrams in applying electronic therapies (“radionics”) to subtle body phenomena underlying physical pathology using her instruments. Her esoteric teachings, experimental methods, and legendary devices were widely used by exploratory clinicians starting in the 1930s
but dramatically suppressed by the authorities. Wrote The Science and Philosophy of the Drown Radio Therapy (1938) and The Theory and Technique of the Drown Radio Therapy and Radio Vision Instruments (1939). In 1963 she was arrested by
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