The National Eclectic Medical Association Quarterly

In 1915, there were 12,000 Eclectic physicians and 14,000 Homeopathic physicians in practice. The Flexner report was published in 1910, financed by the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, with active assistance by the A.M.A, the self-proclaimed (and similarly supported) "National Board of Medical Examiners" was began shortly thereafter, and the Flexner-Carnegie-Rockefeller-A.M.A. intent of decreasing the number of both medical schools AND physicians (allopaths only) was begun. In 1915 there were 8 accredited Eclectic schools, 9 Homeopathic schools, 7 African-American-only schools and 3 women-only medical schools, all producing students that sat for the various state boards and that took the same tests as everyone else. By 1935, there remained only 1 Eclectic school, 2 homeopathic schools, 2 negro-only schools and NONE for women. The number of schools had been cut in half, the new physicians were virtually all white males, and the numbers of physicians dropped and their income rose...and they all migrated (it seems) to the cities. By 1940, ALL private medical schools had vanished and ONLY Standard Practice Medicine ("Allopaths") and the Flexner-modelled curriculum survived. Chiropractice and Osteopathy survived in shaky alternate universes, constantly hounded by a well-honed and experienced Inquisition.

 

I don't mean to tirade here, but the United States and Canada once had a rich and diverse community of squabbling physicians that represented several sophisticated medical "sects", that trained in separate schools but sat for the SAME BOARDS. All gone, and mostly forgotten, killed in virtually invisible trench warfare that was funded in part by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and, let's be honest, the A.M.A. There is an excellent paper on the subject at http://www.rienstraclinic.com/info/FlexnerPharos.pdf

 

The Quarterly contained information on the N.E.M.A, and papers were published that were read at the national meetings...often with a spirited "Discussion"

These are the more interesting excerpts.

 

September, 1915 - Volume 7, Number 1 - 37 pages, bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) file - 4 advertisements 312K (12/02)

ADDRESS. JOHN URI LLOYD,

OH, THE SHAME OF IT! W. E. KINNETT, M.D.

LARYNGEAL DIPHTHERIA. IDA F. KITTREDGE, M.D

THE SANE CONDUCT OF NORMAL LABOR. W. E. KINNETT, M.D.,

ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA AND INULA HELENIUM IN THE TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS. V. VON UNRUH, M.D.,

December, 1915 - Volume 7, Number 2 - 43 pages, bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) file - 7 advertisements. 480K (12/02)

DIPSOMANIA. AMOS J. GIVENS, M.D., LL.D.,

PULSATILLA. H. C. SMITH, M.D.,

THE HANDICAPPED BABY. A PLEA FOR ADEQUATE PROPHYLAXIS. HARRY V. BROWN, M.D.,

EUROPEAN "TWILIGHT SLEEP" OR AMERICAN, WHICH? O. C. BAIRD, M.D.,

WILL INSANITY CONSUME THE JEWISH RACE? THEODORE DAVIS ADLERMAN, A.B., M.D.,

OIL ANEMOPSIS (BARNES), A NEW REMEDY OF VALUE IN CATARRHAL CONDITIONS. J. FRASER BARBRICK, M.D.

 

March, 1916 - Volume 7, Number 3 - 43 pages, bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) file - 6 advertisements 332K (12/02)

THE PATHOLOGY OF ARTERIOSCLEROSIS. HERBERT T. COX, M.D.
PULSATILLA IN INEFFICIENT LABOR. HERBERT T. WEBSTER, M.D.,

ADAPTATION OF LIFE TO ENVIRONMENT. J. A. MUNK, M.D.,

THERAPEUTICS OF EYE, EAR AND THROAT DISEASES. HERBERT T. WEBSTER, M.D.,

PRINCIPLES, PRACTICE AND PROGRESS OF THE ECLECTIC SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. A. H. COLLINS, M.D.,

 

June, 1916 - Volume 7, Number 4 - 33 pages, bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) file - 6 advertisements. 320K (12/02)

THE PREPARATION OF THE EXPECTANT MOTHER. JANET D. QUINN, M.D.,

PAINLESS PARTURITION. J. M. WELLS, M.D.,

PITUITARY EXTRACT. M. S. CANFIELD, M.D.,

PROPHYLAXIS IN GYNECOLOGY. ELLA MANSFIELD CARYL, M.D.,

COMMON SENSE OBSTETRICS. G. W. HARVEY, M.D.,

RECURRENT TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY, ETIOLOGY AND PROPHYLAXIS BEFORE CONCEPTION. E. L. SMYTHE, M.D.,

EDITORIALS

MINUTES OF THE HOMEOPATHIC-ECLECTIC CONFERENCE.

 

March, 1928 - Volume 19, Number 3 - 30 pages, bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) file - 6 advertisements. 365K (12/02)

DIATHERMY IN PELVIC DISEASES. E. F. SHAULIS, M.D.,

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS. PAUL A. DEOGNY, M.D.,

THE MEDICAL SERVICE IN THE ARMY. F. L. HOSMAN, M.D.,

THE SANITARIUM AND ITS USEFULNESS IN CHRONIC DISEASES. ENOCH MATHER, M.S., M.D.,

WHEN SHALL WE FEED THE NEW-BORN BABE? JEROME EARL HOLMAN, M.D.,

MEDICAL DRAINAGE OF THE GALL-BLADDER. J. S. BROWN, M.D.,

June, 1928 - Volume 19, Number 4 - 23 pages, bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) file - 7 advertisements. 328K (12/02)

CHOREA. C. W. BEAMAN, M.D.,

THE FRENCH COMBINATION HIGH FREQUENCY AND ULTRA-VIOLET ELECTRODES. JOSEPH E. G. WADDINGTON, M.D., C.M.,

THE USE OF MEDICINES IN SURGICAL CASES. HERBERT T. COX, M.D.,

HERPES ZOSTER. W. W. DANGELEISEN, M.D.,

BIG WORDS. JOHN URI LLOYD

September, 1934 - Volume 26, Number 1 - 27 pages, bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) file - 3 advertisements. 600K (12/02)

Shewman Obituary

Proceedings of the Sixty-fourth Annual Meeting

(In the depths of the Great Depression, a virtual deathwatch for the ageing movement and the "National"...1 school surviving...113 deceased members, 0 new members)

December, 1934 - Volume 26, Number 2 - 24 pages, bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) file - 3 advertisements. 230K (12/02)

BRYONIA F. L. HOSMAN,

ETIOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF PUERPERAL SEPSIS GEORGE C. PORTER, M.D.

THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN AS AN OBSTETRICIAN T. D. HOLLINGSWORTH, M.D.,

ACUTE FRONTAL SINUSITIS M. O. HAZEN, M.D.,

CERTAIN DRUGS IN CERTAIN NERVOUS DISEASES T. D. ADLERMAN, M.D.,

TIC-DOULOUREUX MORSE HARROD, M.D.,

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