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Era of Medical Pluralism
early communities of practice
1801 - 1879
1834
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
The Thomsonian Botanical Watchman. First issue published.
Wilhelm Winternitz, MD (d. 1917) Viennese physician often characterized as ‘father of scientific hydrotherapy.’ XX
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1835
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Nordamerikanische Academie der Homoeopathische Heilkunst (The North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing Art); first homeopathic medical school in 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.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
A Defense of the Graham System of Living: Or, Remarks on Diet and Regimen. Dedicated to the Rising Generation. Sylvester Graham.XX
Jacob Bigelow, MD, delivers “Discourse on Self- Limited Diseases” before the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1835 challenges the dominant Heroic medicine with its toxic doses, bloodletting and purging and noted that outcomes among treated and untreated patients were similar.
Louis Kuhne (d. 1901) German naturopath
known for cold water hydrotherapy methods
and vegetarian diet. Invented friction sitz bath; introduced ‘science of facial expression’ diagnostic system, concept of ‘unity of disease,’ adopted by early naturopaths as the fundamental concept
of illness and healing of pathology (through foundationsproject.org 65
Lifelong commitment to social causes; first student /
to receive regular medical degree at Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (1853). XX
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1833
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Worthington Medical College Graduates first
class in Worthington, OH, having been founded in 1830; suspended 1839–1843 after “Resurrection Riot”; 1845, becomes Eclectic Medical Institute; 1857, absorbed American Medical College; 1859, absorbed Eclectic College of Medicine and Surgery; 1910, renamed Eclectic Medical College.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
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. XX
The Organon of Medicine, last German edition (5e), published by Samuel Hahnemann. The 6e would be published in 1921 (posthumously), based on notes to 5e; introduced LM potencies, other concepts and methods. XX
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
Hahnemann and others open first homeopathic hospital, Leipzig, Germany. Often troubled by ineffective practitioners who mixed allopathic and homeopathic methods. Closure, 1842.
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