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Note: Page numbers in
italics
indicate illustrations.
Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 205
adjustments, chiropractic, 209â11, 220â21, 223
advertising: by homeopaths, 130; by hydropaths, 104; of manual techniques, 214, 220, 225; of patent medicine, 184, 185,
185
, 188, 191â94, 199, 201, 207; by phrenologists, 77
AFH (American Foundation for Homeopathy), 144
African Americans, 20, 224
Agnes; or, The Possessed, A Revelation of Mesmerism
(Shay), 164â65
AIH (American Institute of Homeopathy), 128, 129, 130, 132, 135â37, 141â42
alcohol, 189â90
Alcott, Bronson, 133
Alcott, Louisa May, 6, 9, 73,
134
, 134â35
allopathy, 119
al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine)
(Avicenna), 211
alternative medicine, and antimicrobial drugs, 250â51; attacks on, 266; commonalities with regular medicine of, 259â60; and disillusionment with regular medicine, 253; and doctor-patient relationship, 252; and educational reform, 246â48; education level and use of, 256â57; Flexner report on, 246â48; and germ theory, 260â61; government funding for, 256; health-care costs and, 253, 256; and holistic medicine, 254â55; influence on regular medicine of, 258â59; and integrative medicine, 256â57; and licensure, 245; and medical bureaucracy, 251; and medical specialties, 252; multiple strands of meaning in, 265â66; persistence of, 261â62; and placebo effect, 263â65; and public health movement, 245â46; and reform movements, 257â58; renewed interest in, 253â54; and scientific advances, 243â44, 245, 250â52; and social change, 244â45; strengths of, 262â63; use of term, 2, 254; and women in medicine, 248â50.
See also
irregular medicine
AMA.
See
American Medical Association (AMA)
American Chiropractic Association, 227
American Dispensatory
(King), 187, 188
American Foundation for Homeopathy (AFH), 144
American Holistic Medicine Association, 255
American Hydropathic Institute, 102â3, 137
American Indian remedies, 194
American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH), 128, 129, 130, 132, 135â37, 141â42
American Journal of Phrenology
, 77
American Journal of the Medical Sciences
: on over-medication, 17; on phrenology, 62
American Medical Association (AMA): and Flexner report, 246â48; and homeopathy, 128â29, 136, 139; and osteopathy, 239; and patent medicines, 199â200, 201, 205; and public health, 245â46; as unifying force, 260
American Museum, 169
American Osteopathic Association (AOA), 227
American Phrenological Journal
, 66, 71, 91
American School of Chiropractic, 224
American School of Osteopathy, 217â18
amphetamines, 252
Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in General and the Cerebrum in Particular
(Gall), 58
Andrews, Edmund, 176
Angostura bitters, 204
animal magnetism: James Braid on, 161; commitment of mesmerists to, 168; Charles-Nicolas Deslon and, 156; and itinerant mesmerists, 167; Franz Anton Mesmer on, 150â51, 154, 157; Charles Poyen on, 161â63, 169; Marquis de Puységur on, 158â59; Phineas Parkhurst Quimby on, 170, 171; regular medicine on, 167; religious concerns about, 163â64; sexual overtones of, 165
animal spirits, 149
Anthony, Susan B., 72, 100
antibiotics, 250â51, 258
antimicrobial drugs, 250â51
AOA (American Osteopathic Association), 227
Avicenna, 211
Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 156
Backbone
(journal), 227
back pain, 229â30
Baillie, Matthew, 15
Bailly, Jean-Sylvain, 155
Baker, Wyeth Post, 253
baquet, 152
Barnum, P. T., 71, 160
Barton, Benjamin Smith, 38
Barton, Clara, 72
Bartram, John, 27
Bath (England) spas, 86, 88
baths and bathing, 84, 86, 108â9
Bayard, Edward, 115
Beach, Wooster, 47â48
Beecher, Catharine, 97â98, 100, 104, 105
Bell, John, 60, 77
Biegler, Augustus P., 115
Bierce, Ambrose, 176
bitterroot, 31
black pepper, 31
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 66, 88, 102
bleeding, 7, 8
blistering, 7, 8
The Blithedale Romance
(Hawthorne), 165
blood in osteopathy, 215â16
bloodletting, 7, 8
blood-sucking leeches, 7, 8
Bloomer, Amelia, 97
Bloomer costume, 97
bonesetters, 211â13
Boone, Nicholas, 184
Boston Daily Times
on patent-medicine ads, 192
The Bostonians
(James), 165
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
: on hydropathy, 91, 99, 105, 106; on mesmerism, 166; on patent medicines, 201â2; on Thomsonism, 33, 43
Boston Moral Reformer
on hydropathy, 84
Boston News-Letter
, patent-medicine ads in, 184
botanic medicine, 23â51; historical background of, 25â27.
See also
Thomsonism
Botanico-Medical College and Infirmary, 47
Botanico-Medical Recorder
on Thomsonism, 45â46
Bowman, Julia C., 224
Braid, James, 160â61
brain: as electric battery, 215, 216; in manual medicine, 225, 229; in mesmerism, 149, 167, 168, 173, 180; modern science of, 79â80; in phrenology, 53â60, 69, 75, 78â79, 258â59; Swedenborg's beliefs about, 56â57
Brattleboro Hydropathic Institution (Vermont), 95â96, 97â98, 104, 107
Brighton (England) spas, 88
Brisbane, Albert, 100
British Phrenological Society, 80â81
Broca, Paul, 79
Bryant, William Cullen, 73
Burkmar, Lucius, 169â70
bushmaster, 127
Cabot, Richard, 176â77
cadavers, 14â15
Caldwell, Charles, 60, 77
calomel, 8â9, 189, 198
Came, Charles, 196â97, 199, 203
cancer plaster, 38
capsicum, 30â31
Carlyle, Thomas, 88
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 246
Carter, John S., 201
Carver Chiropractic College, 234
Caster, J. S., 219
Caster, Paul, 219
Castoria, 193
cathartics, 8
cayenne pepper, 30â31, 32
celebrity endorsement of Thomsonism, 38
Central Medical College, 65â66
Chapelain, Pierre Jean, 160
Charcot, Jean-Martin, 168
childbirth: hydropathy for, 83â84, 103; mesmerism for, 166; osteopathy for, 218
children, homeopathy for, 130â31
chiropractic, 237â38; appeal of, 230â33; apprenticeship program in, 223â24; criticism of, 234â35; dissensions within, 229â30; “first adjustment” in, 209â10, 220â21; and Flexner report, 247â48; historical precedents of, 210â13; “Innate Intelligence” in, 221â22; naming of, 221; origins of, 218â21; of B. J. Palmer, 222, 224, 225â26; of Daniel David Palmer,
208
, 209â10, 218â22, 223â25; professional journal and association of, 227â28; regulation and lawsuits of, 236â38; schools of, 224â27; and spirituality, 222, 229â30, 231; subluxations in, 221â22, 223; survival of, 239â41; theory of, 221â22; women in, 224
The Chiropractor
(journal), 227, 236
cholera, 125â26
Chopra, Deepak, 256
Christian Science, 148, 173â78
Christian Science Journal
, 175, 178
Christian Science Monitor
, 178
Christian Science Reading Rooms, 178
Church of Christ (Scientist), 175
cinchona bark, 117
Cincinnati Daily Gazette
on Christian Science, 176
Civil War: and heroic medicine, 189, 258; and hydropathy, 109, 110, 112; and patent medicine, 189â90; social changes after, 244
Clarke, Edward H., 249
Cloquet, Jules, 160
Coca-Cola, 204â5
cocaine, 204â5
coffee and homeopathy, 124
“coffee” enema, 31
cold and disease, 30
cold injections, 104
cold steam shower, 105
cold-water enemas, 104
cold water treatments.
See
hydropathy
College of Philadelphia, 15
Columbian Centinel American Federalist
on Thomsonism, 38
Combe, George, 62â64, 67, 68
The Compleat Bone-setter
(Turner), 212
The Compleat Housewife
(Smith), 10
complementary and alternative medicine, 254.
See also
alternative medicine
The Complete Herbal
(Culpepper), 9
W. H. Comstock Company, 194
Confessions of a Magnetizer
(Anonymous), 164
The Constitution of Man
(Combe), 63, 68
Cowell, Nathan P., 247
Crane, Stephen, 73
craniometer, 53, 69
cranioscopy, 58
Creel, George, 235
Crick, Francis, 251
“crisis” in hydropathic treatment, 85
Crumpler, Rebecca Lee, 20
Cullen, William, 117, 221
Culpepper, Nicholas, 9
Curtis, Alva, 46â47
Daffy's Elixir Salutis, 184
Dake, Jabez P., 130
Darwin, Charles, 6, 67, 88
Davenport Democrat & Leader
on chiropractic, 236
Davenport Directory
, magnetic healing ad in, 220
Davidson, Peter, 38
DC (doctor of chiropractic), 224
DeForest, John W., 106
Deleuze, Joseph Francois, 165
democratization, 11â12
Dennett, Mary Ware, 144
Deslon, Charles-Nicolas, 153, 155â57
Dickens, Charles, 72, 88, 160
diet: in homeopathy, 120, 123, 132; in hydropathy, 87, 90, 103, 107, 110, 111
dilution in homeopathy, 118â19, 121â22
diphtheria, osteopathy for, 235â36
DO (doctor of osteopathy), 217, 238
doctor of chiropractic (DC), 224
doctor of osteopathy (DO), 217, 238
doctor-patient relationship, 252
Dods, John Bovee, 168
Dodson, John, 249
Drake, Daniel, 41
Dresser, Anetta, 178
Dresser, Julius, 178
Dr. Zay
(Phelps), 135
Duane, James, 15
Dunham, Carroll, 141â42
“dynamization” in homeopathy, 123
Dyott, Thomas W., 186
Eclecticism, 188
Eclectic Medical Institute, 137