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a special brochure, "The Pretense of Homeopathy," in
which he claimed gross misrepresentation in these figures.
After the homeopaths replied, a city committee carried on
an investigation which vindicated them of certain of the
charges, which the editor was asked to correct. During the
course of the epidemic some of the practitioners were
brought into court by the health board for failure to file
proper reports, but were not convicted, since the board
was adjudged to be illegally organized. The publicity
obtained in these and subsequent attacks served to place the
homeopaths before the people. Newspapers of the period
were filled with the controversy, pro and con. The free
dispensary for cholera victims established in Cincinnati
by Edwin C. Wetherell and Dr. F. A. Davis did much
to further the cause of Hahnemann in Ohio. In 1855 Dr.
Pulte, now nationally known, was the leading speaker at
the Buffalo meeting of the American Institute of Homeopathy,
the centennial celebration of Hahnemann's birth.
To Dr. Storm Rosa, of Painesville, was given the honor
of being the first homeopathic teacher in the West when
in 1849 he was called to occupy a chair in the Cincinnati
Eclectic Institute. So convincing was his course of two
lectures that about one- third of his Eclectic students and
even two faculty members, Drs. Benjamin Hill and
H. P. Gatchell, were converted. At the end of the term six
students received both homeopathic and Eclectic diplomas.
The Eclectics, fearing further complications, abolished the
chair the next year.
Among the aims of the Homeopathic Society of Cincinnati
which came into existence this same year were: "to
petition the General Assembly of 1849 for an act establishing
a homeopathic college; to promulgate the lectures
delivered by Dr. Rosa; to organize a college in Cleveland
in 1850."
The last of these objectives was achieved in the autumn
of 1850 when the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College
was opened, with an attendance of sixty students the first
year. As with regulars and Eclectics before them, the