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
âdynamizationâ in homeopathy, 123
Dyott, Thomas W., 186
Eclecticism, 188
Eclectic Medical Institute, 137
eclectic medicine, 47â48, 65, 245
Eddy,Mary Baker, 147â48, 173â78,
174
education: in chiropractic, 224; medical, 15â16, 246â49; in osteopathy, 217â19, 226â27, 238; phrenology and, 62â63, 68; in Thomsonism, 46â48
educational reform and alternative medicine, 246â48
education level and use of alternative medicine, 256â57
eighteenth century: botanic medicine in, 27; hydropathy in, 87; manual manipulation in, 211, 221; medical practice in, 7, 9, 12; medical societies in, 16; mesmerism in, 148â49, 164; patent medicine in, 186; phrenology in, 54
electrical devices, 196, 207, 230
electrical impulses, animal magnetism as, 168
electric battery, brain as, 215, 216
electric belt, 199
electric tractors, 38
Elliotson, John, 160
Elmira Water Cure, 94, 104
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 12, 63, 162
emetics, 8
emotional disorders, 171
employment counseling based on phrenology, 70
endorsements: of alternative medicine, 256, 265; of hydropathy, 105, 108â9; of patent medicines, 200â201; of Thomsonism, 38
enemas: âcoffee,â 31; cold-water, 104
erectile dysfunction, 193, 198â99
Evans, Warren Felt, 178
Evening Bulletin
(Philadelphia) on women in medical school, 19
exercise: in homeopathy, 132; in hydropathy, 87â88
âFamily Rights,â 35â36, 38â39, 50
Ferrier, David, 79
Finger, Stanley, 56
Fishbein, Morris, 234â35
Flexner, Abraham, 246â48
Flexner report (1910), 246â48
Flourens, Marie-Jean-Pierre, 75, 79
Folger, Lydia,
52
, 53â54, 64, 65â66, 68, 80
folk healers, 25
food vs. medicine, 124
Fountain Head News
, 210
Fowler, Lorenzo Niles: advice offered by, 70â71; descendants of, 78; early life of, 64; later life of, 80â81; marriage to Lydia Folger,
52
, 53â54; New York City offices of, 66â67; other causes championed by, 68; phrenology preached by, 64â65; publications by, 66, 91; public figures examined by, 71â72; rivals to, 77; Mark Twain on, 4â6, 74â75; and Walt Whitman, 73â74
Fowler, Lydia Folger.
See
Folger, Lydia
Fowler, Orson Squire: advice offered by, 70â71; descendants of, 78; early life of, 64; examination of Samuel Thomson by, 50â51; later life of, 80, 81; New York City offices of, 66â67; other causes championed by, 68; phrenology preached by, 64â65; publications by, 66, 91; public figures examined by, 71â72; rivals to, 77; and Walt Whitman, 73â74
Fowler Phrenological Institute, 80
franchise system of Samuel Thomson, 35â36, 38â39, 50
Franklin, Benjamin, 26, 151, 155, 156
Franklin, William Temple, 154
âfree love,â 110
Freud, Sigmund, 54, 168, 171, 180
Friedan, Betty, 135
Friendly Botanic Societies, 36â37
Galen (Roman physician), 8, 100, 149, 210â11
Galileo, 196
Gall, Franz Joseph, 54â59, 69, 75, 78â79
Garfield, James, 71, 133
Garrison, William Lloyd, 133
Gedding, Eli, 122
Geneva Medical College, 66
germ theory, 140, 230â32, 260â61
glass armonica, 151
Gleason, Cynthia, 162, 166
Gleason, Rachel Brooks, 104
Gleason, Silas O., 104
Godeyâs Ladyâs Book
: on hydropathy, 99; on phrenology, 70â71
Godeyâs Magazine
on osteopathy, 233
Goldstein, Michael, 265
Gove, Hiram, 93, 100
Gove, Mary.
See
Nichols, Mary Gove
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