TAILIEUCHUNG - Historical Sketch Of The Eclectic Med-ical Institite, Cincinnati, Known Now Us The Eclectic Medical College

In accordance with the liberal policy previously referred to, an invitation was sent to a body of Homeopathic physicians who had settled in the West and were contemplating the organization of a college of Homeopathists at Cleveland, to select a representative to occupy a chair of Homeopathy in the Institute. At a convention held by the Homeopathists at Cleveland, Professor Hill was present to urge the innovation. On June 26, 1849, the invitation was accepted and Doctor Storm Rosa, of Painesville, Ohio, was unanimously chosen to fill the position, and Doctor David Sheppard, of Bainbridge, Ohio, was selected as editor of. | Historical Sketch of the Eclectic Medical Institute Cincinnati Known now as The Eclectic Medical College 1845-1911. By Harvey Wickes Felter M. D. Editor of The Eclectic Medical Gleaner A Serial Publication of The Lloyd Library Cincinnati Ohio. Southwest School of Botanical Medicine http AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL COLLEGE 2 In the closing year of the first quarter of the nineteenth century there loomed up conspicuously in the City of New York a man whose purpose in life was to reform and better existing forms of medical practice. So well did he succeed that he is now revered as the pathfinder and founder of American Eclecticism in Medicine. Wooster Beach was born in Connecticut. He read Medicine in an unorthodox fashion by placing himself under the instruction of a successful but unlicensed country doctor living in a secluded part of the State of New Jersey. From this preceptor he acquired uncommon facts concerning treatment and then going to the metropolis became regularly educated in Medicine in one of the great medical universities and obtained his parchment. The regular course was taken for two purposes to allow him the right to practice unmolested and as he declared that he might the more clearly detect errors of the modern practice. Armed with the certificate of right to practice and of good moral character he set out to follow his chosen art but not in the regular way. He leaned strongly toward the use of vegetable medicines as against what were then termed mineral medicines. In order to pursue his calling and also to spread abroad his views and practice he opened a clinical school known as the United States Infirmary 1827 . Previous to this he had privately instructed pupils at his home as early as 1825. In 1829 this school was enlarged and denominated the Reformed Medical Academy. The next year it bore the more pretentious title of Reformed Medical College of the City of New York. From this school have sprung .

• Y học thường thức
• liberal policy
• previously referred
• unanimously chosen
• Performance
• Strategic Choices
• Subcontracting SMEs
• Charles Eliot
• Steinman discovered
• memory against
• organisational involvement
• altruist focused
• donation or providing