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methods of obtaining anatomical materials brought down
upon thejTi the ill will and violence of the townspeople,
who almost wrecked the school. By 1852 the homeopaths
were back in the good graces of the citizens, and some of
the townsfolk even made contributions for the reestablishment
of the school in a new location. The addition of
leading doctors to the faculty, including Dr. Pulte of
Cincinnati, aided in placing the school on a more solid
foundation. In 1855-56 the school became the Western
College of Homeopathy.
By 1851 homeopatic converts in various other centers
of the state—Norwalk, Elyria, Pomeroy, Steubenville,
Newark, Urbana—had become so numerous that the need
was felt for a state society; a meeting accordingly was
called in Columbus for the purpose of organizing one. Between
1849 and 18 52 the Homeopathic Society of Cincinnati
reported a membership of one thousand. One homeopathic
physician. Dr. Daniel H. Beckwith, was said to have
"rung more silver doorbells in Cleveland than any other
doctor." Believers had been present in sufficient numbers
to justify the opening in 1845 of a homeopathic pharmacy
in Cincinnati and one the following year in Cleveland.
In 1856 was instituted the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital.
Among the books on homeopathy by Ohio doctors those
by Dr. Pulte were outstanding. His Homeopathic Domestic
Physician, published in 1850, and Woman's Medical Guide,
in 1853, were well known. The former was reprinted in
1852 with anatomical plates and "Special Hydropathic
directions." The Cincinnati Journal of Homeopathy,
begun in 1851, had a brief career, as did Pulte and
Gatchell's American Magazine of Hmneopathy and
Hydropathy, started the next year.
A number of homeopaths were practicing in Kentucky
in the late 1830's. When in 1840 Dr. I. G. Rosenstein
published his Theory and Practice of Homeopathy, at
Louisville, he received letters of approbation from several
local doctors, but he stated that "the whole west and south