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1819
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Daniel Drake, MD, Founds Medical College of Ohio. Prior to its establishment, doctors learned medicine primarily through apprenticeship. Strongly influenced the Eclectics.
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1821
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Prelate Sebastian Kneipp (d. 1897) Bavarian Catholic priest, codified theory and system
of hydrotherapy; promoted healthy living
as foundation of nature cure. Five pillars: hydrotherapy, phytotherapy, nutrition, exercise, regulative therapy. Published Meine Wasser-Kur: durch mehr als 30 Jahre erprobt und geschrieben
zur Heilung der Krankheiten und Erhaltung der Gesundheit, 1889, (My water-cure, as tested through more than thirty years and described for the healing of diseases and the preservation of health: Translated from the 30th German ed., 1891), My Will: A Legacy to the Healthy and the Sick (1896), and The Care
of Children in Sickness and in Health (1897). Bridge between central European traditions and early American naturopathy. One of world’s most prominent and influential nature cure practitioners. Profound impact on Benedict Lust. XX
Rudolph Virchow, MD (d. 1902) Pioneer of cellular pathology. German physician, anthropologist, politician, social reformer. Pioneered theory that human diseases can be understood as cellular dysfunction. Signaled divide between mechanistic/ reductionist and vitalistic/natural medicine schools. Taught illness was not in the whole organism but localized to certain cells or groups of cells.XX
Wilhelm Heinrich Schüssler, MD (d. 1898) German
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Era of Medical Pluralism
early communities of practice
1801 - 1879
homeopath. Originator of tissue salt theory, system (Biochemie): mineral deficiency causes symptoms, treat with mineral salt in triturated potency. Contrasts physiological/biochemical vs. simillimum approaches in homeopathy. XX
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1822
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
New Guide to Health; or Botanic Family Physician.
(Samuel Thomson).
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1823
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
Arnold Rikli (d. 1926) Slovenian nature cure practitioner and ‘sun doctor.’ Established facility in Veldes, Slovenia. Advanced sun, light, and
air bathing/therapeutics with barefoot walking (preceding Kneipp), hydrotherapy. Known for “... water is good, air is better, but light is best of all.” Prolific author. Published The Basic Doctrines of Nature Cure including the Atmospheric Cure. XX
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1824
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
Theodore Hahn (d. 1883) of Silesia. Nature Doctor, scholar, practiced hydrotherapy, advocated vegetarianism, promoted self-responsibility. Student of J.H. Rausse; extended Rausse’s clinical, theoretical works; influenced by Hufeland. Advocate for accessibility and simplicity of nature cure. XX
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