A possible deduction could be this one :
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In America, homeopathy introduced elements of conservatism (my little note : and of christian tradition !) to dominant medical theories, but at the same time engendered bitter sectarian conflict within the ranks of medicine. Indeed, the American Medical Association itself originated from anti-homeopathic sentiments (amongst mainstream physicians ) .
Homeopathic physicians started to trickle into Ohio in the early 1840s, practicing in smaller cities because of their poor reception among “regular” (allopathic) physicians in larger cities. By the 1890s, twenty percent of physicians in Cleveland called themselves homeopaths.
Among the more well-known local homeopaths were Seth R. Beckwith, with a large Cleveland practice as physician and surgeon to railroads; Benjamin L. Hill, one of the founders of the Western Homeopathic College of Cleveland; and Hamilton Fisk Biggar, nationally known medical advisor and intimate friend of John D. Rockefeller. B. H. Bartlett opened the first homeopathic pharmacy in Cleveland in 1846, at the corner of Superior Ave. and Public Square.
Homeopathy depended upon teaching institutions and hospitals for its survival. In 1850 the Western Homeopathic College of Cleveland, the second such institution in the country, came into being, and in 1856, Seth Beckwith opened the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital, the first privately owned hospital in Cleveland. These two institutions soon affiliated, and college faculty practiced and taught at the hospital.
Further consolidation of homeopathic resources occurred after 1869, as the rivalry with allopathic physicians grew worse. Within a decade, Cleveland homeopaths built the Huron Road Hospital as a place of their own. It survives today, but without homeopathic affiliation, as Meridia Huron Hospital in East Cleveland. Homeopathic education in Cleveland ended with the closing in 1922 of the Cleveland Pulte College of Homeopathy (by then affiliated with Ohio State University). This soon spelled the end of homeopathy in Ohio
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The author probably means "the end of the official status of homeopathy in Ohio medical schools" since Ohio is still a stronghold for the liberal practive of homeopathy, as it was already in the XIXth c due to the absence of big cities and big universities in the state of Ohio.
It might have spelled the end of homeopathy in Ohio, but thankfully, it did not spell the end of the instinctive tradition of human nutrition in the US. A tradition which was in no way contradictory to the principles of homeopathic medicine , as both tradition belonged to the hippocratic current within western medicine .
Dariorpl :
I'm not sure whether the first paragraph of your post should be read first degree or second degree.
But in any case , I tend to agree with the second paragraph of your post.
