Who are Eclectic physicians, and what is it that is denominated the Eclectic school of medicine?
The Eclectic system of medicine had its birth in a popular conviction that the old school system of medicine (call it Allopathic or Regular, if you wish) was erroneous in its principles, unsuccessful, unpleasant and murderous in its practice; in fact, dangerous to the lives and health of those who were compelled to employ it. One has but for a moment to consider the character of this “regular” practice during the early part of the last century to fully comprehend the motives which prompted the principal actors of the Eclectic school in the organization of a new school of medicine. Disease was looked upon as an entity—a devil, as it were—to be removed by violent means; a state of over-activity, to be reduced by antiphlogistic or tearing-down treatment. Whatever the malady, especially if acute, every means employed debilitated the patient, and it was only when the extreme prostration forbade the further employment of these methods—then, and then only—that a stimulant and tonic treatment
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