• Petrisko TW

• American Medical Association
• Eclecticism, Historical / history
• Homeopathy / history
• Osteopathy

The organization of the American Medical Association in 1846 signaled the beginning of a century-long structural effort by orthodox medicine to eliminate any competing or alternate schools of healing in the United States. The founding of the AMA was a response to the introduction of homeopathy, and much of its energy in the 19th Century was directed toward opposition to homeopaths, eclectics, Thomosanians and other unorthodox dissenters. With the start of the new manipulative protest schools in the 1890's, this opposition was channeled against osteopathy and chiropractic after the turn of the century. The last homeopathic medical school closed in 1924 and the final eclectic class was graduated in 1939. This study examines the difference between the 19th century assault against the early protest schools and the 20th century campaign against osteopaths and chiropractors.

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