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Naturopathic Medicine
HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL FORMATION TIMELINE
A Living Chronicle: A Tapestry of People, Events and Institutions
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
A Guide To The Twelve Tissue Remedies Of Biochemistry: The Cell-Salts, Biochemic, Or Schuessler Remedies Edward Pollock Anshutz, MD.
Food as a Medicine in the Cure of Disease. Milo E. Yergin, ND, and Harriette A. Yergin.
John N. Ott, DSc (Hon) (d. 2000) Published
Health and Light: the Effects of Natural and Artificial Light on Man and Other Living Things (1973). Published research on healing and light therapy
in International Journal for BioSocial Research. Introduced the term “malillumination” to describe the effects of light less than the full-spectrum of natural sunlight.
John Raymond Christopher, ND (d. 1983) American naturopath and herbalist. After studying at Dominion Herbal College in Vancouver, BC he obtained an ND degree (1948) in Naturopathy at the Institute of Drugless Therapy in Tama, Iowa and the Los Angeles Herbal Institute. Authored School of Natural Healing and other publications on natural healing. His teachings and School of Natural Healing in Springville, Utah inspired and influenced more than one generation of botanical medicine practitioners during decades when opportunities
to learn such therapies were rare. His formulations have been popular with lay self-prescribers for half a century. XX
Specific Diagnosis and Medications. John W. Fyfe, MD. XX
The Revolution in Medical Practice: A Treatise on Modern Curative Systems, Contrasted with Old School Methods. Louis Blumer, DPs, ND. Introduced ‘the tripartite structure of chemical, mental, and physical.’ XXX
The Scientific Natureopath. Louis Blumer, DPs, ND. Journal; continued until at least 1920.
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PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
Ernest Kjellberg establishes first Eclectic medicine and hydrotherapy clinic in Sydney, Australia.
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1910
LEGISLATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
The National League for Medical Freedom formed by Benjamin O. Flower in New York to protect the practice rights of drugless physician, particularly to oppose a bill introduced by Sen. Robert L. Owen to create a national health department aligned with Regular MDs. Published Medical Freedom from 1911 to 1916. Organization ceased operations ca. 1917.
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
James Tyler Kent, MD, and others establish the Society of Homeopathicians to teach homeopathy and publish the journal The Homeopathician. XX
Lindlahr College of Nature Cure and Osteopathy founded by Henry Lindlahr, MD, ND, in Chicago,
IL. Later renamed Lindlahr College of Natural Therapeutics. Dissolves as a distinct institution after amalgamating with National College in 1926 and the naturopathy program becoming part of the separately chartered National College of Drugless Physicians in 1930.
Nebraska Medical College, Eclectic, founded in Lincoln, NE. Closure, 1911.
New Jersey College of Chiropractic and Naturopathy founded by Frederick W. Collins in Newark, NJ. becomes Mecca College of Chiropractic, 1916, until closure in 1943.
Northwestern College of Naturopathy founded
in Minneapolis, MN. Closure date unknown. (American Journal of Physiologic Therapeutics, Sept. 1910; pg. 128).
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