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From Pat Deveney's database:
Eclectic Medical Journal. Organ of the
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| 1849 Eclectic Medical Journal | |
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| 1854 Eclectic Medical Journal | |
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The Eclectic Medical Journal was the professional organ of the Eclectic school of medicine, the botanical and reform-minded sect centred on the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, which defined itself against the orthodox old school and above all against its mercury. Its pages are those of a working medical periodical: society proceedings and convention notices, materia medica and the chemistry of plant alkaloids, case reports, and a running polemic in which an Eclectic physician offers to match his cholagogue against a rival's calomel on a set of patients. Keyword tools misread it badly, since its faculty is a medical faculty, its cerebral is anatomy, and its gall is the gall bladder rather than the founder of phrenology. What genuinely connects it to this archive is a thread of mid-century vitalist therapeutics — Karl von Reichenbach's odic force, the language of imponderable and vital fluids, electro-therapeutics and coloured-light treatment — and the fact that its profession produced Joseph Rodes Buchanan, whose psychometry grew directly out of the Eclectic milieu. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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