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Institute; moved to Rochester, became Rochester Eclectic Medical College, 1850; closed, 1852.
Western College of Homeopathic Medicine founded in Cleveland, OH; first graduates, 1851; becomes Western Homeopathic College, 1857; becomes Homeopathic Hospital College, 1870; absorbed Homeopathic Medical College for Women, 1881; becomes Cleveland University
of Medicine and Surgery, 1894; merged with Cleveland Medical College (Homeopathic) to become Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, 1898.
LEGISLATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
Elizabeth Blackwell graduates from Geneva Medical College, NY, as first woman in US to receive a regular medical degree (MD); presents NY Lectures on the Laws of Life, need for physical education and exercise for children’s development, 1852; opens first women-run New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, 1857; exists today as New York University Downtown Hospital.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
John Uri Lloyd, PharM, PhD (d. 1936)
Pioneer in modern use of plant extracts in medicine; influential in pharmacognosy, herbal pharmaceutical manufacturing, ethnobotany, American materia medica, economic botany; founded Lloyd Brothers Pharmacists, Cincinnati, OH, with brothers, one of world’s largest and
most sophisticated pharmaceutical companies;
its library contains largest world herbal literature; Lloyd published plant medicine Bulletins (including Belladonna, Goldenseal, Damiana, and Aloe), and eight fiction works; received Remington Medal and Ebert Prize,1920; controversial figure; central in Eclectic medicine; acclaimed as modern alchemist; elected president of American Pharmaceutical Association, twice. XX
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Era of Medical Pluralism
early communities of practice
1801 - 1879
PRINCIPLES, THEORIES, DEFINITIONS, AND ETHICS
Lorenz Gleich, MD, Bavarian physician (1798–1865) Extends Naturheilkunde concept, 1849; radical representative of hydropathy and naturopathy in strong opposition to conventional medicine. XX
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ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Literary and Botanico-Medical Institute of Ohio renamed as Physio-Medical College, 1850; literary and medical departments separated in 1851 with medical department adopting name, Physiopathic Medical College of Ohio; closed, 1880.
Syracuse Medical College founded in Syracuse, NY; Eclectic; closure, 1855.
Thompsonian College founded in Barbourville, GA.
LEGISLATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
Ernst Schweninger (d. 1924) Opens first nature cure hospital; located in Berlin. XXX
Female Medical College of Pennsylvania founded in Philadelphia, PA, by small group of Quaker businessmen, clergy, and physicians, headed by philanthropist William J. Mullen; founded amid reformist social movements; important as first Regular medical school for women in world;
last medical school in world to provide medical education exclusively for women.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
A Fair Exposition of Allopathy, or the Pathological System of Medicine, with its Kindred Systems and Branches. Alva Curtis, MD.
Experience in Water Cure. Mary Gove Nichols (née Mary Sargeant Neal).
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