“Lest you think that homeopathy is a New Age phenomenon, it is not. Developed in the late 1700s by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, homeopathy was widely popular in Europe and immigrated to the United States, where it became the first system of organized medicine in this country.
During the 1800s and 1900s in the United States there were more than 100 homeopathic hospitals and 14 homeopathic medical colleges. In 1900, in Washington, DC, home of monuments to the great, a bronze statue of Hahnemann was built just a few blocks from the White House to honor the man’s contributions.”
read full article: Chronogram Magazine August 2007