John S Haller Jr : 2 books
Kindly Medicine
Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines for allopathy’s mineral drugs and promoted the belief that the human body has...
A Profile in Alternative Medicine
The Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 1835-1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
The Eclectic Medical Institute was an American institution in origin, concept, and practice. For nearly a century, EMI was known as the “mecca of eclectic thinking” and the “Mother Institute” of reformed medicine. A Profile of Alternative Medicine recounts the history of eclectic medicine...