Medical Protestants

Medical Protestants

Author: John S. Haller

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780809318940

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By the late nineteenth century, the eclectics found themselves in the backwaters of modern medicine. Unable to break away from their botanic bias and ill-equipped to accept the implications of germ theory, the financial costs of salaried faculty and staff, and the research demands of laboratory science, the eclectics were pushed aside by the rush of modern academic medicine.