Studies in the History of Alternative Medicine

A collection of essays focused largely on the 19th century when alternative medicine as opposed to orthodox medicine was not accepted as "professional". Historians in this book explore the dissent which arose in various local and national contexts. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Before the Fringe: ‘Quackery’ and the Eighteenth-Century Medical Market....Pages 1-27 Water as a Commodity: Hydropathy in Matlock....Pages 28-45 Professional Organisation and the Development of Medical Knowledge: Two Interpretations of Homoeopathy....Pages 46-62 Alternative Medicine, Alternative Cosmology....Pages 63-78 The Nineteenth-Century Afterlife of Paracelsus....Pages 79-88 An Imponderable Liberator: J.J. Garth Wilkinson....Pages 89-117 Theatre and Laboratory: Medical Attitudes to Animal Magnetism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Italy....Pages 118-139 Medical Botany around 1850: American Medicine in Industrial Britain....Pages 140-154 Andrew Taylor Still and the Social Origins of Osteopathy....Pages 155-170 Back Matter....Pages 171-180