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HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL FORMATION TIMELINE
A Living Chronicle: A Tapestry of People, Events and Institutions
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1827
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
Wooster Beach, MD, founds the United States Infirmary in New York, NY. Beach was a key early leader of Eclectic Medicine and the American Reform medical movement who broke with Thomson over education and professionalism.
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1828
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
Chronic Diseases: Their Peculiar Nature and their Homeopathic Cure. Samuel Hahnemann, MD. (1828-1830) First edition in four volumes; often considered Hahnemann’s last medical work of fundamental importance; translated into English (1904) from the Second Enlarged German Edition of 1835, by Prof. Louis H. Tafel. XX
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1829
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Reformed Medical College of New York founded by Wooster Beach, MD; succeeded US Infirmary; closed, 1839.
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1830
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Reformed Medical College of Ohio founded (also known as Worthington Medical College). John
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J. Steele, MD, first president, soon replaced by Thomas Vaughan Morrow, MD. First graduating class, 1833.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
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. XX
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
1830s Alva Curtis, MD, Splits from Thomson; creates his own Independent Thomsonian Medical Society (botanical physicians later known as physio-medical or physio-pathic practitioners or by other self-descriptors).
This split the Thomsonians since Thomson criticized academic institutions of medicine as elite bastions of intellectual theorizing and as inferior
to the common sense of herbal self-education and domestic care by pioneer families. XX
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1831
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
Cordelia A. Greene, MD (d. 1905) Influential pioneering woman physician who emphasized simple life with a focus on healthy mind. Practiced at Clifton Springs Sanitarium (OH), Castile Sanitarium (NY). Dr. E. Greene in Historical Wyoming (1858) wrote: “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 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.”
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