Word: hahnemann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Osteopathic Association in 30th annual convention at Louisville, Ky. Famed John D. ("Bonesetter") Reese of Youngstown, Ohio, was made a "Druid" by the American Gorsedd. All are groping toward methods of keeping humans well, of getting them healthy, once diseased. Homeopathy. The homeopaths still have two medical schools, the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia and the New York Homeopathic Medical College of Manhattan. They have faculty representation at the Universities of California and of Michigan and at the Boston University School of Medicine. Every large city in the U. S. has from one to three homeopathic hospitals. Some few have...
Under the heading " Schools and Pathies" (July 16) TIME stated that no homeopathic medical schools are granted " Class A " ranking and that osteopathic schools have low entrance requirements and a three-year course. In the interest of justice and the facts it is here stated that: 1) the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital at Philadelphia (homeopathic) has always been rated in " Class A " by the Council on medical education and hospitals of the American Medical Association; 2) the majority of osteopathic schools now require high school graduations and have lengthened their courses to four years...
Homeopathy (from Gk., "like disease"). Founded by Samuel C. F. Hahnemann, a Leipzig physician, in 1796. His main work was The Organon of Rational Healing, which embodies the four main principles of the homeopathic creed: 1) The "proving" or testing of all medicines on healthy persons before their use in treatment. 2) The law of "similars''-often epitomized in a Latin maxim, Similia similibus curantur. The theory is that specific drugs produce in the healthy, symptoms of the diseases they are adapted to cure. The selection and administration of the proper drug for each disease is the heart...