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; Swedenborgâs 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; âfirst adjustmentâ in, 209â10, 220â21; and Flexner report, 247â48; historical precedents of, 210â13; âInnate Intelligenceâ 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
âcoffeeâ 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
âcrisisâ in hydropathic treatment, 85
Crumpler, Rebecca Lee, 20
Cullen, William, 117, 221
Culpepper, Nicholas, 9
Curtis, Alva, 46â47
Daffyâs 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,
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