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HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Rudolph Steiner (d. 1925) Visionary, spiritual scientist, educator; founded Anthroposophy, including biodynamic farming, Waldorf education, and anthroposophic medicine, a continuation of the lineages of Paracelsus and spagyric medicine. XX
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
Electropathic Institute formed in Philadelphia, PA; moved to Brantford, Ontario, and then Mentor, OH, 1876.
The Victoria Hydropathic Establishment, first Australian hydrotherapy spa, opened in Malvern, Victoria.
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Henry Lindlahr, MD, ND (d. 1924) Medical degree from Illinois College of Medicine. Originator, foundational naturopathic clinical theory; synthesized, evolved vitalist and nature cure principles, systematic application and clinical therapeutics in multi-volume text. Vol I: Nature Cure: Philosophy and Practice Based on the Unity of Disease and Cure. Founded and operated Lindlahr School of Natural Therapeutics, a seminal school, and the widely recognized sanitarium, Lindlahr Health Resort, in Elmhurst and Chicago, IL. Major influence through his teaching and writing during his career; through Spitler’s Basic Naturopathy (1948), and when nature cure theory republished during the profession’s renaissance. Honored as “One of the five great Naturopaths of America”
in 1947 at the Golden Jubilee Convention of the American Naturopathic Association. XXX
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Era of Medical Pluralism
early communities of practice
1801 - 1879
Louis Pasteur’s experiments contribute to germ theory of infectious disease causation.
PRINCIPLES, THEORIES, DEFINITIONS, AND ETHICS
Russell Trall, MD, uses term ‘naturepathy’ in an editorial in the Water-Cure Journal.
MAINSTREAM EMERGENCE, COLLABORATION, AND INTEGRATION
MD Homeopaths operated 110 hospitals, 145 dispensaries, over 30 nursing homes, 62 orphan asylums and retirement homes, and 16 ‘insane asylums’ in the US. XXX
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Michigan School of Homeopathy and Surgery founded in Detroit; closure date unknown.
New York Medical College for Women founded in New York City, NY; homeopathic; first graduates, 1864; renamed New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, 1866; students transferred to New York Medical College, 1918.
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
The Herald of Health and Water-Cure Journal. Publ., R. Trall, MD.
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Franz Schonenberger (d. 1933) One of the first university professors of nature cure methods in Berlin, Prussia.
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