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HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
First known promotion of Australian materia medica after herbalist, George Blaker, reports to German colleagues his self-cure of rheumatism by sleeping under fresh gum leaves (eucalypt). First description of an Australian indigenous herb into the Western botanical materia medica.
The Hydropathic Encyclopedia. Russell T. Trall, MD. /
1854
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Key to the Materia Medica, or, Comparative Pharmacodynamic. Adolph von Lippe, MD (1812- 1888).
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1855
LEGISLATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
American Medical Association institutes aggressive application of “consultation clause”
in its code of ethics (1847) stating that orthodox physicians will lose AMA membership if they consult with a homeopath or any other “irregular” practitioner. XX
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
The American Dispensatory. (2e 1898) John King, MD.
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1856
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania founded in Philadelphia, PA; closure, 1880.
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Era of Medical Pluralism
early communities of practice
1801 - 1879
Eclectic College of Medicine and Surgery founded in Cincinnati, OH; first graduates, 1857; merged with Eclectic Medical Institute, 1859.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Eclectic Medical Journal of Philadelphia. Ed., William Paine, later John Buchanan.
PRINCIPLES, THEORIES, DEFINITIONS, AND ETHICS
Russell T. Trall, MD, uses term ‘naturepathy’ in “Hygeiopathy,” an editorial in The Water-Cure Journal, March 1856. (Herbert Shelton, Natural Hygiene, pg. 77.)
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
(Leopold) Emanuel Felke (d. 1926) Protestant pastor, known as “the clay vicar.” Introduced loam baths to nature cure movement; helped develop iridology and complex homeopathy; student of Priessnitz, Kneipp, Hahnemann, Paracelsus. Felke Cure used nature (light, air, clay, etc.), health determinants to engage innate self-healing.
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1857
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Botanic Medical College founded in Memphis, TN; becomes Eclectic Medical Institute, 1859. Closure, 1861.
New York Hygio-Therapeutic College, “hydropathic and physiological school” authorized to confer MD degree by state legislature; closed, 1864.
LEGISLATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
Matilde Montoya Lafragua, MD (d. 1938) First female physician and homeopath in Mexico. At age, 16, she received the title of midwife, soon aspired to medical degree. After several challenges to her admission she graduated from National School
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