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Indianapolis, IN.
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Philadelphia College of Naturopathy registered; operations contested.
LEGISLATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
Morris Fishbein, MD, succeeds George Simmons as editor of JAMA; becomes ardent advocate of conventional medicine and harshest critic of the many traditions and schools of drugless medicine and other schools of natural therapeutics; hugely influential in establishing the market dominance and public image of the AMA and orthodox medicine’s professional institutions and allies;
also edits JAMA’s popular magazine Hygeia. After retiring, becomes lobbyist for the tobacco industry.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
The Naturopathic Method of Reducing dislocations after the Great French Physician LeGrange. Frederick W. Collins, DC, ND. Publ., United States School of Naturopathy
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
Harry M. Hoxsey, ND, opens first clinic in Illinois.
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1925
LICENSURE, EXAMINATIONS, REGULATORY, AND LICENSING BOARDS
Board of Drugless Practitioners (BDP) founded in Ontario, Canada. Predecessor of Board of Directors of Drugless Therapy Naturopathy (BDDT-N).
192X Georgia licensure (details unverified). Hawaii (US territory) licensed, Act 77 SB 46.
Ontario province regulated under Drugless Practitioners Act, including naturopaths and other
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Era of Institutional Medicine
birth of natuopathy: emerging profession
1901 - 1934
drugless medicine professions (chiropractic, massage, other). Revised: Drugless Practitioners Act, R.S.O. 1927, Chapter 200, Sec[t]ion 3, and amendments.
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
First Indian naturopathic college, Indian College of Naturopathy, opened by Dr. Shibvnath Ray in Kolkata. XX
National College of Naturopathy registered in Cedar Rapids, IA. Documents lacking.
National University of Therapeutics registered in Washington, DC. Documents lacking. Closed 1943.
LEGISLATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
First Basic Science Act passed in Wisconsin and Minnesota, requiring all medical practitioners
to pass a standardized basic science exam to obtain medical license; 23 states later pass similar laws; the law was intended to suppress drugless practitioner licensing; however, many extant drugless practitioner curricula had incorporated basic sciences in their training. William Budden of Western States later continued to champion DC and ND academic rigor.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Health via Nature: The Health Book for the Layman.
Harry Finkel, ND, DC.
JBS Haldane gives mathematically superior derivation of the 1913 Michaelis-Menten equation, still the mainstay of enzyme kinetics in biochemistry.
Nature Cure and Medical Freedom. Publ. H. Clark Nikola. Australia’s first naturopathic journal, launched by The Association of Botanic, Medical and Naturopathic Practitioners Inc., South Australia.
Nature’s Path, monthly journal for lay people, first published by Benedict Lust, continues until 1953.
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