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Homeopathy 'for Mexicans': Medical Popularisation, Commercial Endeavours, and Patients' Choice in the Mexican Medical Marketplace, 1853-1872.
Abstract This paper focuses on homeopaths' strategies to popularise homeopathy from 1850 to 1870. I argue that homeopaths created a space for homeopathy in Mexico City in the mid-nineteenth century by facilitating patients' access to medical knowledge, consultation and practice. In this period, when national and international armed conflicts limited the diffusion and regulation of academic medicine, homeopaths popularised homeopathy by framing it as a life-enhancing therapy with tools that responded to patients' needs. Patients' preference for homeopathy evolved into commercial endeavours that promoted the practic...
Source: Medical History - September 14, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hernández Berrones J Tags: Med Hist Source Type: research

'Globules at Home: The History of Homeopathic Self-medication
This paper deals with the history of self-treatment in homeopathy, focusing mainly on the territories of the German Empire between 1870 and 1918, by reconstructing some of the conditions under which this took place. Consideration is given to why homeopathy was such an appropriate option for home medicine; how lay people acquired the knowledge to use homeopathic remedies at home in cases of illness; and what remedies were available for practising homeopathy in private households. The paper shows that the use of this ‘alternative’ method was a common and important part of the wide field of home remedies.
Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Baschin, M. Tags: Medicine in the Household Source Type: research