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gentle non-molecular homeopathic “vaccination” so to speak. Jenner's work was widely accepted, but the more esoteric work of Hahnemann was met with understandable resistance: the advanced level of its basic scientific nature which although clinically curative, would remain scientifically unprovable for the next two centuries.

Despite the adversity in the general medical community, homeopathy continued to grow in popularity as a clinical discipline. Its practice spread to the United States by the 19th century and flourished here. Toward the end of the century, some of the most renowned homeopaths in the world were practicing in America. By 1918, when the Spanish flu (filiform virus similar to hemorrhagic Ebola of today) was devastating the world population, the homeopathic cure rate ran approximately 96% as opposed to the allopathic cure rate which was about 5%. Afterwards, the commissioners of health of five major cities were named from the homeopathic medical community.

This recognition did not last for long. Within twenty years, due to political suppression and what appeared to be a conspiracy by the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry along with the American Medical Association,* the six homeopathic medical schools were closed in favor of the allopathic medical approach and eventually nearly one hundred homeopathic hospitals were forced to close. By 1940, there were only a handful of homeopaths left in practice. Homeopathy did not meet this fate in Europe where it had begun nor in India where it flourished. It was not until the latter part of the 1970's that the discipline began to resurface in the U.S. once again, and it has continued to grow steadily until today.