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Naturopathic Medicine
HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL FORMATION TIMELINE
A Living Chronicle: A Tapestry of People, Events and Institutions
Hydropathy for the People: With Plain Observations of Drugs, Diet, Water, Air, and Exercise. William Horsell and R.T. Trall, MD.
Water Cure Manual. Joel Shew. PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
Eli G. Jones, MD (d. 1933) Regular MD, shifted
to Eclectic practice, then sequentially integrated homeopathy, Physiomedicalism and Schüssler’s biochemic cell salts to create a syncretic system of therapeutics. Author of Cancer: Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment. Giving the Results of over Forty Years’ Experience in the Medical Treatment
of this Disease and Definite Medication. in Definite Medication he advocated low dosage botanical extracts; also known for prescribing homeopathic mother tinctures. For many years published A Journal of Therapeutic Facts for the Busy Doctor. XX
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1850
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College established. Closed 1890.
PRINCIPLES, THEORIES, DEFINITIONS, AND ETHICS
John H. Tilden, MD (d. 1940) Graduate of Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, OH, practiced
in Illinois; published numerous periodicals, pamphlets, and books, including The Philosophy
of Health, renamed Health Review and Critique, 1926; advanced the understanding of toxemia; degeneration and healing model, 1926, (enervation, toxemia, irritation, inflammation, ulceration, induration, fungation/cancer) corresponds with Hippocratic concept of ‘coction’ and Lindlahr’s healing reaction model (1913). XX
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1852
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Metropolitan Medical College founded in New York City, NY; Eclectic; charter revoked, 1862.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
John Harvey Kellogg, MD (d. 1943) Patented first ‘health food’ cereal; wrote several influential books (including Rational Hydrotherapy); built residential retreats combining diet, exercise, and water cure; often contentious relationship with naturopaths. XXX
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1853
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
American College of Medicine founded in Philadelphia, PA; becomes part of Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia, 1856; absorbed Pennsylvania Medical College, 1863; became Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery, 1865; closed, 1880.
New York Hydropathic and Physiological School founded, New York City, NY, by Russell Trall,
MD; “hydropathic and physiological school” with pioneering four-year curriculum; nearly half of early enrollees were women; women MDs prominent on faculty; becomes New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College, 1857; closed, 1864.
LEGISLATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
Anti-Vaccination League founded in London in response to Vaccination Act of 1853; made vaccination compulsory under threat of fine or imprisonment.XX
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