A Century of Homeopaths. Their Influence on Medicine and Health

ABOUT THIS BOOK

· Presents homeopathic medicine’s significant contribution to medical progress
· Organized by the accomplishments of over 100 homeopaths
· Written for health professionals, researchers, students and those with an interest in medical history

As the values of integrative medicine continues to grow, alternative points of view and treatments are increasing in acceptance and prevalence. Homeopathic medicine is considered an important root to this approach. However, contributions of homeopathically qualified doctors have long been overlooked.

A Century of Homeopaths is a detailed account of the many homeopaths who have contributed to medical progress since 1840. The accomplishments of over 100 homeopaths form the organizing structure of the book - many of whom have been lost to history. The text describes the ways in which homeopaths have influenced medical practice, research and public health, as well as the seminal effect of homeopaths in the emergence of today's medical specialties and in social reform, thus providing insights to healthcare professionals, researchers, students and medical historians.

Content Level » Professional/practitioner
Keywords » Samuel Hahnemann, surgery, anesthesiology, cardiology - homeopaths, homeopathic medicine, homeopathy - modern evidence - policy, politics, public health, bioethics -psychiatry, infectious disease, allergies, pharmacology
Related subjects » Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Medicine

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Century of Homeopaths: Their Influence on Medicine and Health

Chapter 1. Introduction

• A Brief History of Homeopathy
• Defining a Homeopath
• Synopsis

Chapter 2. Samuel Hahnemann: Rebarbative Genius

• Personality and Relationships
• Hahnemann as Medical Pioneer

Chapter 3. Women, Reform and Medical Leadership

• Professional Barriers, Social Reform and the Role of Women in Homeopathy
• New York Medical College and Hospital for Women
• Clemence Lozier
• Elizabeth Blackwell
• Harriet Clisby
• Emily Stowe
• Mary Safford Blake
• Alice Boole Campbell
• Susan Smith McKinney Steward (Also Known As Susan Smith McKinney)
• Florence Nightingale Ward (1860-1919)
• Maria Augusta Generoso Estrella
• Geraldine Burton-Branch
  Boston Graduates and Students
• Mercy B. Jackson
• Mary H. Thompson
• Lucy Waite
• Rebecca Lee Crumpler
• Esther Hill Hawks
• Julia Holmes Smith
• Leila Gertrude Bedell
• Martha George Ripley
• Anna Howard Shaw
• Rebecca Lee Dorsey
• Clara Barrus
• Eliza Taylor Ransom
• Cleveland Graduates
• Caroline Brown Winslow
• Susan Edson
• Others
• Laura Matilda Towne
• Conclusions

Chapter 4. The Homeopathic Scalpel: Contributions to Surgery from the World of Homeopathy

• Dental Surgeons
• Josiah Foster Flagg
• Gynecology and Obstetrics
• George Taylor
• Rebecca Lee Dorsey
• George Southwick
• James Wood
• James Ward and Florence Nightingale Ward
• Lucy Waite
• Walter Crump
• Geraldine Burton-Branch
• Urology
• Bukk Carleton
• Sprague Carleton
• George Nagamatsu
• Leonard P. Wershub
• General Surgery
• Edward C. Franklin
• William Tod Helmuth (1833-1902)
• Israel Tisdale Talbot
• John Mallory Lee
• Ophthalmology and Oto-laryngology
• Edwin Sterling Munson
• L. Grant Selfridge
• Cardiac Surgery
• Charles Bailey
• Others

Chapter 5. Homeopaths and the Dawning of Anesthesiology

• Herbert Leo Northrop
• Thomas Drysdale Buchanan
• Walter M. Boothby
• Everett A. Tyler
• Henry Ruth
• Harold Randall Griffith
• Rolland Whitacre
• William Neff
• Brant Burdell ("BB") Sankey
• Kenneth K. Keown
• Caleb Matthews
• Thomas Skinner
• August Bier
• Summary

Chapter 6. Homeopathy and the Mind: From Alienists to Neuroscientists

• Hahnemann's Attitude Towards Mental Illness
• Kinship of Homeopathy and Psychiatry
• Influential Individuals
• Charles Frederick Menninger: An Ambassador-at-Large from the Court of Nature
• Rudolf Arndt
• Selden Talcott
• Samuel Worcester
• Bayard Holmes
• Emmons Paine
• Frank C. Richardson
  Henry M. Pollock
• Clara Barrus
• Henry I. Klopp
• Psychiatrists at Fergus Falls State Hospital
• The Life and Career fo Solomon Carter Fuller: America's First African-American Psychiatrist
• Winfred Overholser (1892-1964): The Dean of Forensic Psychiatry
• Oswald Boltz: From Psychiatry to Homeopathy
• James Cocke
• Conclusions

Chapter 7. Public Health

• Tullio S. Verdi
• Charles Sumner
• Eugene Porter
• Charles V. Chapin
• Rebecca Lee Dorsey
  Hills Cole
• James W. Ward
• Royal Copeland
• Pedro Ortiz
• Marcus Kogel
• Geraldine Burton-Branch
• The Domestic Sanitation Movement
• John James Drysdale and John William Hayward

Chapter 8. The Early Days of Radiation: Homeopathic Shadows

• Emil Grubbe: First to Use X-Rays in Medicine or Teller of Tall Tales?
• The Discovery of X-Rays and Its Impact on Grubbe
• Francis Benson
• William Dieffenbach
• Other Activities
• John Mallory Lee

Chapter 9. Heartbeat, Heart Failure, and Homeopathy

• Constantin Hering and His Contributions
• Hering's Law of Cure
• The Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) at Hahnemann Medical College
• Other Contributors to Cardiology
• Milton Raisbeck
• Measuring Cardiovascular Physiology: 19th Century British Studies
• Robert Dudgeon and the Dudgeon Sphygmograph
• The Sphygmograph
• Experimental Physiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM)
• Arthur Weysse

Chapter 10. Allergy and Allergic Disorders: Homeopathic Leaders

• Introduction
• Charles Blackley
• Grant L. Selfridge
• Homeopathy, Immunology and Allergy: Other Considerations
• Charles Frederick Millspaugh

Chapter 11. Academic Homeopaths Reinvented

• Roy Upham: Promoter of International Homeopathy
• Conrad Wesselhoeft: Physician in Search of an Identity
• Homeopathic Career
• Career in Regular Medicine
• Linn J. Boyd: From Homeopathic Philosophy to Cardiology
• Thomas H. McGavack: Embracing Homeopathy, Endocrinology and Gerontology

Chapter 12. Oncology

• Oncology
• Oscar Auerback
• Charles Cameron
• Howard W. Nowell
• Ita Wegman
• Edward Cronin Lowe

Chapter 13. Other Stars in the Sky

• Gymnastics, Education, Temperance and Social Reform
• Dioclesian Lewis
• Swedish Massage
• Matthias Roth, George Taylor
• Chemistry and Administration
• Ira Remsen
• Pediatrics
• Carl Fischer
• The First Native American Indian in Modern Medicine
• Charles Eastman
• Pathology
• Edward Cronin Lowe

Chapter 14. Congress, Parliament, Presidents and Monarchs

• Charles E. Sawyer
• Joel Boone
• Willis Danforth
• John Weir: The Monarch's Doctor
• Homeopaths in Elected Office
• Jacob H. Gallinger
• Royal S. Copeland
• J. Dickson Mabon
• The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital

Chapter 15. Bioethics and the Contributions of Otto Guttentag

• Personal Background and Training
• Academic Career
• Guttentag as Homeopath
• Contributions to Bioethics and Medical Humanities

Chapter 16. Less is More: Finding the Right Dose

• Rudolf Arndt
• Hugo Schulz
• Hormesis
• Limitations of the Arndt-Schulz Law
• Drugs: To Be Given Every Day or Intermittently?
• Time Dependent Sensitization
• Does the Label Tell the Truth? How Much Medicine Is Really There?

Chapter 17. A Homeopathic Rogues' Gallery

• Three Charlatans
• Edwin Hartley Pratt
• Albert Abrams
• William Koch
• License Fraud
• Robert Reddick
• Gregory Miller
• Power and Betrayal: George Simmons
• Homeopaths in Nazi Germany
• Karl Koetschau
• Other Transgressors: Hans Wapler and Gerhard Madaus
• Other Events Relevant to Homeopathy in Nazi Germany
• Homeopathy and Murder
• Hawley Crippen and James Munyon
• Luc Jouret

Chapter 18. Concluding Thoughts

• Persecution Against Homeopaths
• The Evidence for Efficacy: Does Homeopathy Work?
• Basic Rules of Medical Evidence
• Major Reviews of Homeopathy
• How Might Homeopathy Work?

AUTHORS & EDITORS

Jonathan Davidson, MD Emeritus Professor Department of Psychiatry Duke University Medical Center Extensive record of publishing – over 400 peer reviewed scientific papers, over 50 book chapters. Sole author or co-author of The Anxiety Book (Penguin Putnam/Riverside, 2003), Downing Street Blues: A Historical Account of Depression and Other Mental Afflictions in British Prime Ministers (McFarland Publishing Co., 2011), Herbs for the Mind (Guilford Publications, 2000), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: DSM-IV and Beyond (American Psychiatric Publishing, 1993), Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Diagnosis, Management and Treatment (Martin Dunitz, 2000) and other books on anxiety for clinical practitioners. Principal investigator of many federally- and pharmaceutically-funded studies. Over 800 talks and presentations. Dr. Davidson is a medically qualified author with extensive experience in the clinical practice of medicine, a productive academic teaching and research record. His qualifications and stature are established in complementary medicine, including homeopathy and herbal medicine.