Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society
On March 18, 1856, over fifty members of the Fraternity petitioned the state legislature to incorporate as the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society. The Society was organized in September, with Samuel Gregg as its first president. State homeopathic medical societies were becoming common throughout New England by this point, and Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut all had them.
The Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society operated in a fashion similar to the Massachusetts Medical Society. It even accepted libraries of members, such as the gift of Daniel Swan (d. 1864) who succeeded Samuel Gregg in medical practice in Medford. Swan "purchased most of the books to be obtained upon Homeopathy, and accumulated a large and valuable library, which, a few months before his death, he presented to this Society." By 1866, the society's librarian reported that there were approximately 1,000 volumes which should be centralized and cared for. The society began to publish its scientific transactions in the 1860s and continued to do so until 1920.