. Bulletin: Pharmacy series . er of medicines, as to get the dimes. Some there are who have engaged inthe business who are ignorant of the first principles of chemistry and pharmacy. Thus the problem became more complicated, for now three schoolsin medicine, Thomsonian, Eclectic, and Allopathic, were acrimoniouslyinvolved, two of them (Eclectic and Thomsonian) being much per-plexed and painfully implicated. The Homeopathic school happilyescaped. Throughout the year 1851, Professor E. S. McClellan carriedarticles on the subject in the Worcester (Mass.) Journal of Medicine(Eclectic). In Septembe
. Bulletin: Pharmacy series . er of medicines, as to get the dimes. Some there are who have engaged inthe business who are ignorant of the first principles of chemistry and pharmacy. Thus the problem became more complicated, for now three schoolsin medicine, Thomsonian, Eclectic, and Allopathic, were acrimoniouslyinvolved, two of them (Eclectic and Thomsonian) being much per-plexed and painfully implicated. The Homeopathic school happilyescaped. Throughout the year 1851, Professor E. S. McClellan carriedarticles on the subject in the Worcester (Mass.) Journal of Medicine(Eclectic). In September, 1851, Newton* and Kelley of that citybegan the manufacture of the various resinoids, alkaloids, etc. In1852 appeared The Eclectic Dispensatory, by King and Newton,fin which, however, only the legitimate resins and oleo-resins weregiven a position. Soon thereafter the American Chemical Instituteof New York, B. Keith & Co., (see p. 21), entered the field, and * Dr. Calvin Newton, not R. S. R. S. Newton, M. D. 32. ROBERT SAFFORD NEWTON, M. D. THE ECLECTIC ALKALOIDS. from that date to 1865, all physicians of America, through journalsand circulars, were flooded with extravagant literature concerning themarvelous American alkaloidal and resinoidal remedies. The fewworthy members of the group were soon overshadowed by those un-worthy of the name, many of the intruders being entitled to no legiti-mate home anywhere. The odium of it all rested, by reason of theorigin of the products, on the Eclectic school, although (Wilder) theAmerican Chemical Institute of New York, and their agent, GroverCoe, the most conspicuous of all implicated in the publicity given theseproducts, had (before this time) united their interests with those ofthe dominant (Allopathic) school. THE ECLECTIC REVOLUTION. Then it was that Professor John King, M. D., the discoverer ofthe first of the few worthy members of the class, wrote a crushingcommunication to the Worcester Journal of Medicine, June, 1855,
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