A Homeopathic Hospital

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A lack of homeopathic hospitals was also felt. Conrad Wesselhoeft believed that there was a need to establish homeopathic hospitals as laboratories to provide clinical trials of new provings and established practices. The Massachusetts Homeopathic Fraternity began to agitate for a hospital as early as 1850, but, lacking sufficient state financial support, the Fraternity turned its attention to a Homeopathic Medical Dispensary, which was incorporated in 1856, and opened on April 20, 1857, at No. 17 Tremont Temple. Ten years earlier, Charles Frederic Hoffendahl and David Thayer established a homeopathic dispensary in Boston "over Boylston Market, which was continued for nearly two years, and many cases were treated successfully."By the end of the 19th century, there were also homeopathic dispensaries at Boston University and Boston College, and in Lynn, Roxbury, Worcester, and Boston's West End.

While a Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital was incorporated in 1855, the institution did not open for the reception of patients until January 23, 1871. Following the expulsion of the homeopaths from the Massachusetts Medical Society, a great public fair was held in May 1872 to endow and support the new hospital, and $72,000 was raised and used to purchase land on East Concord Street, adjoining the School of Medicine at Boston University.

Other hospitals and institutions in Massachusetts which were at least homeopathic in origin were formed in the 1890s and first years of the twentieth century. These include Boothby's Hospital, Malden Hospital, Morton Hospital, Taunton, Murdoch's Free Surgical Hospital for Women, Newton Cottage Hospital, Quincy Hospital, Hampden Homeopathic Hospital in Springfield, Worcester Homeopathic Hospital, Newburyport Homeopathic Hospital, Homeopathic Hospital for Children in Boston, Salem Homeopathic Hospital, Baldwin Place Home for Little Wanderers, Consumptives' Home, and the House of the Angel Guardian Home for Young Women in Lowell. Many of the hospitals also had associated nursing schools.

Homeopathic Education and Practice
A Homeopathic Hospital