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James M’Alister, 1847). On the Eclectic sect, see John S. Haller Jr., Medical Protestants:
The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825–1939 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, 1994).



  1. Quoted in John S. Haller Jr., The People’s Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the Ameri-
    can Botanical Movement, 1790–1860 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press,
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  2. J. Redding, “Is Medicine a Science?” Physio- Medical Journal 8 (1882): 130, 148.

  3. The best account of Christian Science healing is Rennie B. Schoepfl in, Christian
    Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Univer-
    sity Press, 2003). See also Rennie B. Schoepfl in, “The Christian Science Tradition,” in
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    Numbers and Darrel W. Amundsen (New York: Macmillan, 1986), 421–46.

  4. Carol Trowbridge, Andrew Taylor Still, 1828–1917 (Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jef-
    ferson University Press, 1991), 139–41; see also Norman Gevitz, The D.O.’s: Osteopathic
    Medicine in America (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press,1982).

  5. Dennis Peterson and Glenda Wiese, Chiropractic: An Illustrated History (St. Louis:
    Mosby, 1995), 67 (science of magnetic healing), 83 (jail); Daniel David Palmer, Text-
    Book of the Science, Art, and Philosophy of Chiropractic for Students and Practitioners
    (Portland, OR: Portland Printing House, 1910), quoted in J. Stuart Moore, Chiropractic
    in America: The History of a Medical Alternative (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins
    University Press, 1993), 3. See also Walter I. Wardwell, Chiropractic: History and Evolution
    of a New Profession (St. Louis: Mosby Year Book, 1992), esp. “Chiropractic Philosophy,
    Science, Art,” 179–210.

  6. Steven C. Martin, “‘The Only Truly Scientifi c Method of Healing’: Chiropractic
    and American Science, 1895–1990,” Isis 85 (1994): 207–27.

  7. Adolph Lippe, “Valedictory Address, Delivered at the Eighteenth Annual Com-
    mencement of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, March 1, 1866,”
    Hahnemannian Monthly 1 (1866): 308, quoted in John Harley Warner, “Orthodoxy and
    Otherness; Homeopathy and Regular Medicine in Nineteenth- Century America,” in
    Culture, Knowledge, and Healing: Historical Perspectives of Homeopathic Medicine in Europe
    and North America, ed. Robert Jütte, Guenter B. Risse, and John Woodward (Sheffi eld:
    European Association for the History of Medicine, 1998), 19.

  8. Louis Faugères Bishop, “The Evolution of Scientifi c Medicine,” Medical Times,
    November 1898, 542–43. On the struggle between homeopaths and allopaths in New
    York, see Warner, “Ideals of Science,” 454–78.

  9. Charles A. L. Reed, “The President’s Address,” Journal of the American Medical
    Association 36 (1901): 1606, quoted in William G. Rothstein, American Physicians in the
    Nineteenth Century: From Sects to Science (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University
    Press, 1972), 325. For a similar observation, see William Osler, Aequanimitas (Philadel-
    phia: Blakiston’s Son, 1932), 254–55 quoted in Rothstein, American Physicians in the
    Nineteenth Century, 325–26.

  10. Abraham Flexner, Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to
    the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (New York: Carnegie Founda-
    tion, 1910), 157–61.

  11. Regina Markell Morantz- Sanchez, Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in
    American Medicine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 144.

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