Article: Homeopathic medicine gaining popularity again

Thompson, Ericka P.
Indianapolis Recorder
01-14-2005
Homeopathy has an interesting history filled with popularity and disbelief.

Gaining mass appeal in the U.S. and Europe in the 1800s, homeopathy - the
art and science of healing sick individuals by using substances capable of
causing the same symptoms, syndromes and conditions when administered to
healthy people - has always been a perplexing problem among traditional
physicians and physicians who studied and practiced it.

Traditional physicians criticized herbalists, midwives, and other
participants of unorthodox medicine because they weren't "medically
trained."

Homeopathy began to decrease in popularity in 1910 when the Carnegie
Foundation ...

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