Eclectic medicine: Difference between revisions

In 1827, a physician named Wooster Beach founded the United States Infirmary on Eldridge Street in [[New York City|New York]]. Ten years later, in 1837, he founded the New York Medical Academy, which later became the Reformed Medical College of New York, the parent school of "Reformed Medicine."<ref name=AMBBeach>{{Cite AMB1920|wstitle=Beach, Wooster}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| url={{Google books|id=s5tt2WdD2e8C|page=13|plainurl=yes}} | title=Medical Colleges of the United States and of foreign countries 1918 | author=Council on Medical Education and Hospitals | publisher=American Medical Association | year=1918}}</ref>

Major Eclectic practitioners include [[John Uri Lloyd]], [[John Milton Scudder]], [[Harvey Wickes Felter]], John King, Andrew Jackson Howe, [[Finley Ellingwood]], Frederick J. Locke, and William N. Mundy, and Henry Wohlgemuth.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.henriettes-herb.com/eclectic/bios|title=Felter, 1912: Biographies of King, Howe and Scudder. - Henriette's Herbal Homepage|website=www.henriettes-herb.com}}</ref><ref>[https://www.herbaltherapeutics.net/resources/research-library/ List of publications by Eclectic physicians], scanned by David Winston</ref> [[Harvey Wickes Felter]]'s ''[[Eclectic Materia Medica]]'' is one of several important Eclectic medical publications dating from the 1920s. It represented a last attempt to stem the tide of "standard practice medicine", the antithesis of the model of the rural primary care vitalist physician who was the basis for Eclectic practice.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

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