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78.
“The Water Cure,”
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
35, no. 18 (December 2, 1846).

79.
Holmes,
Medical Essays
, 6.

80.
James F. Light,
John William DeForest
(New York: Twayne, 1965), 29–31.

81.
John Townsend Trowbridge,
My Own Story: With Recollections of Noted Persons
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 197–99; Legan, “Hydropathy,” 90–91.

82.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 100.

83.
Ibid., 99–100; Cayleff,
Wash and Be Healed
, 166–68.

84.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 86–87.

85.
Cayleff, “Gender, Ideology, and the Water-Cure Movement,” 91.

86.
Ibid., 94.

87.
Legan, “Hydropathy,” 91–92; Cayleff, “Gender, Ideology, and the Water-Cure Movement,” 95.

88.
Cayleff,
Wash and Be Healed
, 169.

89.
J. H. Kellogg, “Hygeio-Therapy and Its Founder,” in Ronald L. Numbers,
Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White
(New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 66–67.

90.
Cayleff,
Wash and Be Healed
, 99–100.

91.
Ibid., 168–69.

92.
Ibid., 171.

93.
Ibid., 160–61.

94.
Ibid., 162.

95.
Blake, “Mary Gove Nichols,” 230–33; “Feminism and Free Love,” H-net,
http://www.h-net.org/~women/papers/freelove.html
.

96.
Silver-Isenstadt,
Shameless
, 235–37.

97.
Ibid., 241; Cayleff,
Wash and Be Healed
, 173–75.

98.
Nina Rastogi, “Who Says You Need Eight Glasses a Day?,”
Slate
, April 4, 2008,
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2008/04/who_says_you_need_eight_glasses_a_day.html
.

99.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 191–92; Piers Edwards, “Sports and Recovery: End of the Ice Bath Age?,”
CNN.com
, December 18, 2012,
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/18/sport/feature-ice-baths
.

100.
Cayleff,
Wash and Be Healed
, 174.

CHAPTER FOUR: DILUTIONS OF HEALTH

1.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Lucretia Mott (October 22, 1852) in
Women's Suffrage in America
, 2nd ed., ed. Elizabeth Frost-Knappman and Kathryn Cullen-DuPont (New York: Facts on File, 2005), 103.

2.
Judith Wellman,
The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 158.

3.
Kirschmann,
A Vital Force
, 29–30.

4.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 49.

5.
Hahnemann,
Organon
, 186–87.

6.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 9–11; Kaufman,
Homeopathy in America
, 24.

7.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 11–12; Kaufman,
Homeopathy in America
, 24.

8.
Quoted in Peter Watson,
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific
(New York: Harper Perennial Reprint, 2011), 176.

9.
Quoted in Thomas Lindsley Bradford, “The Life of Hahnemann,”
Homeopathic Recorder
8 (August 1893): 346.

10.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 51.

11.
Ibid., 51.

12.
Hahnemann,
Organon
, 45.

13.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 12–14.

14.
Hahnemann quoted in Lester S. King, T
he Medical World of the Eighteenth Century
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 170–71.

15.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 57; Robins,
Copeland's Cure
, 7–8.

16.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 57.

17.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 29–31.

18.
Robins,
Copeland's Cure
, 7; Nadav Davidovitch, “Negotiating Dissent: Homeopathy and Anti-Vaccinationism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” in Johnston,
Politics of Healing
, 13–15; Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 243–44.

19.
Quoted in Porter,
Greatest Benefit to Mankind
, 391.

20.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 52–54; Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 19–20.

21.
Samuel Hahnemann to Dr. Stapf (September 11, 1813), in
British Journal of Homeopathy
, J. J. Drysdale and J. Rutherfurd Russell, eds. (London: H. Turner, 1845), 3:137–40.

22.
Samuel Hahnemann,
Materia Medica Pura
, trans. Charles Hempel (New York: Radde, 1846), 1:vii.

23.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 53–54.

24.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 12–13; Robins,
Copeland's Cure
, 7.

25.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 54–56; Kaufman, “Homeopathy in America,” 100–101.

26.
Hahnemann,
Materia Medica Pura
, 26–28, 29, 30, 39, 43; Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 56.

27.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 72–73; Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 70–73.

28.
Quoted in David W. Ramey et al., “Homeopathy and Science: A Closer Look,”
Technology Journal of the Franklin Institute
6, no. 1 (1999): 99.

29.
Holmes,
Medical Essays
, 56.

30.
Kaufman,
Homeopathy in America
, 31–32.

31.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 57–58; Robins,
Copeland's Cure
, 10.

32.
Hahnemann,
Organon
, 37, 38.

33.
Kirschmann,
Vital Force
, 13.

34.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 16.

35.
Kirschmann,
Vital Force
, 18.

36.
Hahnemann,
Organon
, 142.

37.
Ibid., 143–45.

38.
Samuel Hahnemann, “On the Effects of Coffee, from Original Observations,” in
The Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann
, ed. R. E. Dudgeon (New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 2004), 391–92.

39.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 31–33; Samuel Hahnemann,
The Chronic Diseases: Their Specific Nature and Homeopathic Treatment
(New York: William Radde, 1845–46), 1:113–14.

40.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 33–34.

41.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 60; Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 28.

42.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 98.

43.
Ibid., 35–37.

44.
William Harvey King,
History of Homeopathy and Its Institutions in America
, vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1905), 60–61; Kaufman,
Homeopathy in America
, 28.

45.
Hering quoted in Arthur M. Eastman, “Life and Reminiscences of Dr. Constantine Hering,”
Hahnemannian Monthly
2 (June 25, 1917).

46.
Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary
(St. Clair Shores, MI: Somerset Publishers, 1999), 554–55.

47.
“Making Medicines from Poisonous Snakes,” National Institutes of Health, Office of Science Education,
http://science.education.nih.gov/animalresearch.nsf/Story1/Making+Medicines+from+Poisonous+Snakes;
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 61.

48.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 124–27.

49.
Anna Kobsar and Martin Eigenthaler, “NO Donors as Antiplatelet Agents,” in Peng George Wang et al., eds.,
Nitric Oxide Donors
(New York: John Wiley, 2005), 258–86; N. Marsh and A. Marsh, “A Short History of Nitroglycerine and Nitric Oxide in Pharmacology and Physiology,”
Clinical Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology
27 (April 2000): 314–15; Kaufman, “Homeopathy in America,” 100–101.

50.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 100–101.

51.
Kaufman,
Homeopathy in America
, 29.

52.
Quoted in William E. Kirtsos, “The Beginning of the American Institute of Homeopathy,” AIH,
http://homeopathyusa.org/home/about-aih/our-heritage-our-future.html
.

53.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 138–39, 176.

54.
Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association, adopted May, 1847
(Philadelphia: AMA, 1848), 18–19.

55.
Michael Flannery, “Another House Divided: Union Medical Service and Sectarians During the Civil War,”
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
54 (1999): 490; Robins, Copeland's Cure, 18–19.

56.
Kaufman, “Homeopathy in America,” 102.

57.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 68–69.

58.
“Remarks of Dr. Dake,”
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Homeopathy
13 (1864): 131–32; Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 177–78.

59.
Albert Bellows, A
Memorial to the Trustees of the Free City Hospital, With Statistics and Facts, Showing the Comparative Merits of Homeopathy and Allopathy, as Shown by Treatments in European Hospitals
(Boston: Clapp, 1863), 23–25; Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 64.

60.
Hahnemann quoted in ibid., 56.

61.
Hahnemann,
Organon
, 261.

62.
Kirschmann,
Vital Force
, 33–35; Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 226.

63.
Kirschmann,
Vital Force
, 34; Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 227–28, 247–49.

64.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 228–32.

65.
Ibid., 231–33.

66.
Kirschmann,
Vital Force
, 31; Martin Bickman, “Transcendental Ideas: Definitions,”
American Transcendentalism Web
, Virginia Commonwealth University,
http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/ideas/definitionbickman.html
.

67.
Kirschmann,
Vital Force
, 32; Dana Ullman,
The Homeopathic Revolution:
Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Chose Homeopathy
(Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2007), 67–68; N. Hirschorn and I. A. Greaves, “Louisa May Alcott: Her Mysterious Illness,”
Perspectives in Biological Medicine
50 (Spring 2007): 243–59.

68.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, “What Shall They Do?,”
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
(1877): 522.

69.
Ibid., 523.

70.
Frederick Wegener, “‘Few Things More Womanly or More Noble': Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Advent of the Woman Doctor in America,”
Legacy
1, no. 22 (2005): 2–3.

71.
Kirschmann,
Vital Force
, 40–41; George W. Swazey, “The Admission of Women,”
Transactions of the American Institute of Homeopathy
(1869–70): 345.

72.
Kirschmann,
Vital Force
, 74–75.

73.
Duffy,
From Humors to Medical Science
, 290.

74.
Anne C. Mastroianni, Ruth R. Faden, and Daniel D. Federman,
Women and Health Research: Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies
(Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 1994), 46; Kirschmann, Vital Force, 77.

75.
Kirsten Swinth, “Emily Sartain and Harriet Judd Sartain, MD: Creating a Community of Women Professionals,” in
Philadelphia's Cultural Landscape
, Katherine Martinez and Page Talbott, eds. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), 139–41.

76.
Ibid., 143–45; Kirschmann,
Vital Force
, 62–63, 76–78.

77.
Holmes,
Medical Essays
, 101.

78.
Ibid., 203, ix-x.

79.
Kaufman,
Homeopathy in America
, 32–33, 100–101.

80.
Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 260.

81.
Robins,
Copeland's Cure
, 27–28.

82.
Ibid., 28; Kaufman,
Homeopathy in America
, 21–26.

83.
Kaufman, “Homeopathy in America,” 106.

84.
William Holcombe, “What Is Homeopathy?,”
North American Journal of Homeopathy
13 (1865): 341–42; Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 266–69.

85.
Rogers, “The Proper Place of Homeopathy.”

86.
Kirschmann,
Vital Force
, 24; Haller,
History of American Homeopathy
, 268–70.

87.
Whorton,
Nature Cures
, 272; Mark Twain quoted in Harris L. Coulter,
Divided Legacy: The Conflict between Homeopathy and the American Medical Association
, vol. 3,
Science and Ethics in American Medicine, 1800–1914
(Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1982), 288–89.

88.
Kirschmann,
Vital Force
, 19; Alex Berman, “The Heroic Approach in 19th Century Therapeutics,”
Bulletin of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists
11 (1954): 320–24.

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