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Era of Institutional Medicine
birth of natuopathy: emerging profession
1901 - 1934
practitioners including “sanipractors, naturopaths, mechanotherapists, others.” Five certificates
issued under “separate and coordinate systems
of drugless practice” including mechanotherapy, “suggestive therapy, food science, physcultopathy, and any other separate and coordinate system of drugless practice” with two seats on the Regulatory Board, to be certified by Washington Association of Drugless Physicians. Naturopathic physicians were also commonly registered as sanipractors until WA State began licensing naturopaths as such in 1957.
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
American School of Naturopathy in New York City re-chartered in District of Columbia as American School of Chiropractic.
American University of Sanipractic chartered in Seattle, WA, by John E. Lydon and Mary Huntley Lydon; first students enrolled January 1920;
lists 27-month program; closes 1925 amidst controversy.
Edinburgh School of Natural Therapeutics (ESNT) founded by James C. Thomson, ND, a graduate
of Lindlahr’s college. First training college in the United Kingdom to provide four-year, full-time curriculum.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
James Lovelock, originator of Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). Published works include Gaia: a new look at life on Earth (1979); The Ages of Gaia (1988); Gaia: the practical science of planetary medicine (1991), and The Revenge of Gaia (2006). Key role in emerging understanding of complex biological systems and self-regulatory processes of interrelationships within the Earth as a living organism. XX
“Serological Differences between the Blood of Different Races: The Results of Researches on the Macedonian Front.” L. Hirszfeld, H. Hirszfeld. Lancet.
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Portugal and US. Jose Honoratio Ferreira, ND.
Ralph R. Weiss, ND, DC (d. 2015) Student of Benedict Lust at American College, as one of seven students. Also studied with F.W. Collins at American College of Naturopathy (grad. 1942) and B. Macfadden. Practiced in Chicago, IL, 1937 to 1949, then practiced in Medford, OR, from 1949 to 2005. Helped Oregon evolve profession as primary care physicians. OR Board of Examiners member through five OR governors; established first naturopathic formulary and first to challenge and win DEA privileges as an ND. Recognized
for homeopathy, physical medicine acupuncture, live-field microscopy, iridology, hypnosis, and radiesthesia. Close friend, colleague, and physician to Edgar Cayce. XXX
GLOBAL HEALTH PARTICIPATION
First Universal Naturopathic Encyclopedia, Directory and Buyer’s Guide: A Yearbook of Drugless
Therapy. (Ed., Benedict Lust). (Publ., American Naturopathy Association in New York City, NY). First “international” naturopathic tome, including content from naturopaths in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, Fiji, Germany, India, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK, Venezuela, US. XXX
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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Benedict Lust leads founding of American Naturopathic Association (ANA), after dissolving Naturopathic Society of America, due to its insolvency. Lust is elected President for Life in 1921.
LICENSURE, EXAMINATIONS, REGULATORY, AND LICENSING BOARDS
Washington State Legislature enacts Drugless Healers Act; allows licensing of drugless
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