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Bronson, 133
    Alcott, Louisa May, 6, 9, 73,
134
, 134–35
    allopathy, 119
    al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine)
(Avicenna), 211
    alternative medicine, and antimicrobial drugs, 250–51; attacks on, 266; commonalities with regular medicine of, 259–60; and disillusionment with regular medicine, 253; and doctor-patient relationship, 252; and educational reform, 246–48; education level and use of, 256–57; Flexner report on, 246–48; and germ theory, 260–61; government funding for, 256; health-care costs and, 253, 256; and holistic medicine, 254–55; influence on regular medicine of, 258–59; and integrative medicine, 256–57; and licensure, 245; and medical bureaucracy, 251; and medical specialties, 252; multiple strands of meaning in, 265–66; persistence of, 261–62; and placebo effect, 263–65; and public health movement, 245–46; and reform movements, 257–58; renewed interest in, 253–54; and scientific advances, 243–44, 245, 250–52; and social change, 244–45; strengths of, 262–63; use of term, 2, 254; and women in medicine, 248–50.
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, 102–3, 137
    American Indian remedies, 194
    American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH), 128, 129, 130, 132, 135–37, 141–42
    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, 246–48; and homeopathy, 128–29, 136, 139; and osteopathy, 239; and patent medicines, 199–200, 201, 205; and public health, 245–46; 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, 217–18
    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, 150–51, 154, 157; Charles Poyen on, 161–63, 169; Marquis de Puységur on, 158–59; Phineas Parkhurst Quimby on, 170, 171; regular medicine on, 167; religious concerns about, 163–64; sexual overtones of, 165
    animal spirits, 149
    Anthony, Susan B., 72, 100
    antibiotics, 250–51, 258
    antimicrobial drugs, 250–51
    AOA (American Osteopathic Association), 227
    Avicenna, 211
    Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 156
    Backbone
(journal), 227
    back pain, 229–30
    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, 108–9
    Bayard, Edward, 115
    Beach, Wooster, 47–48
    Beecher, Catharine, 97–98, 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, 215–16
    bloodletting, 7, 8
    blood-sucking leeches, 7, 8
    Bloomer, Amelia, 97
    Bloomer costume, 97
    bonesetters, 211–13
    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, 201–2; on Thomsonism, 33, 43
    Boston Moral Reformer
on hydropathy, 84
    Boston News-Letter
, patent-medicine ads in, 184
    botanic medicine, 23–51; historical