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Homeopathic Hospitals in the United States of America Article by Dr. Heike Gypser The following presumably incomplete list may give a first impression of the multitud of homeopathic hospitals that were established in the US at the end of the 19th century. It was then that American homeopathy was at its peak and as popular with patients as orthodox medicine, as respected– or even preferred.
 Homeopathic Hospital - Rochester N.Y. It was not only due to the initiative of doctors that these hospitals were established - T.F.Allen (1837-1902) for example strongly supported the Laura Franklin Free Hospital for Children – but also non-professional and women movements promoted the building of hospitals as well as numerous private donations that often included property or equipment. Apart from general hospitals special clinics for gynaecology, surgery, paediatrics and ophtalmology were founded. Sometimes the realization of this form of hospital met with resistance. Thus the decision to establish the Westboro Homoepathic Asylum for the Insane was made in 1815, but it was not until 1886 that it opened its doors. Some of the homeopathic training centres affiliated with hospitals such as the Hahnemann Medical College with the Hospital of Philadelphia, The Southern Homeopathic Medical College with the Hospital of Baltimore, The New York Homoeopathic Medical College with its Hospital, The Southwestern Homoeopathic Medical College with the Hospital in Louisville and the Hering Medical College with the Hospital in Philadelphia. Many hospitals had so-called „Training Schools for Nurses“. In general, the hospital was managed by a „Board of Trustees“, consisting of doctors, in many cases. The number of beds ranged from a few to up to 800 in the Ward’s Island Hospital. The New York State Asylum for the Insane in Middletown even reported 2.046 beds in 1912. Some of the hospitals were established as traditional allopathic hospitals and then converted into homeopathic clinics, such as the Passic Homoepathic Hospital in New Jersey or the Cook County Hospital in Illinois. With the downfall of American Homeopathy at the beginning of the 20th century, however, the reverse case was more apparent. Thus, the Hahnemann University Hospital today still exists in Philadelphia, yet it is no longer a homeopathic hospital but merely carries a name indicating its former orientation. The following survey shows the clinics listed according to states with the year referring to the opening date. Double entry of hospitals cannot be ruled out as names in the sources often appear twisted and fail to disclose whether they refer to the same hospital or to different institutions. In some cases, the opening year of the hospital could not be determined. Alaska Sikita Mission Hospital: 1890 Colorado Arapahoe County Jail and Poor House Hospital: opened 1871 , homeopathic hospital from 1881 and from 1883-1884 Denver Homoeopathic Hospital: 1898 Sick Babie`s Summer Hospital, Denver Conneticut Elmcroft, Enfield: 1890 Dr. Given`s Sanitarium: 1891 Grace Homoeopathic Hospital, New Haven: 1892 under construction and inaugurated Crest View Sanatorium, Greenwich: 1894 Grey Towers, Stamford Delaware Homoeopathic Hospital of Delaware: 1888 Homoeopathic Hospital, Wilmington: 1888  Homeopathic Hospital – Wilmington, Del. District of Columbia National Homoeopathic Hospital Association of Washington: 1884 Florida Homoeopathic Department of St. Luke`s Hospital, Jacksonville: 1878, closed 1888-1889 Illinois Chicago Homoeopathic Hospital: 1854-1857 Chicago City Hospital: 1857 planned as homeopathic hospital, but was taken over by the US army Scammon Hospital of Chicago later The Hahnemann Hospital of Chicago: 1870 Joilet State Penitentiary Hospital: 1878, was shortly after converted into an allopathic hospital Chicago and Cook Count y General Hospital: 1882 Chicago Surgical Institute: 1884, 1885, only existed for a short time South Side Home, Chicago: 1885, only existed for 3 years Streeter`s Hospital, Chicago: 1888 Streeter`s Private Hospital: 1890 Baptist Hospital of Chicago: 1891 West Chicago Sanitarium, Chicago: 1892 Skile`s Orificial Sanitarium, Chicago: 1893 The World`s Fair Homoeopathic Emercency Hospital: 1893 Illinois Western Hospital for the Insane, Watertown: 1898 Chicago Homoeopathic College Frances Willard Hospital The Cook County Hospital Indiana O.S. Runnel`s Private Hospital, Indianapolis: 1891 Iowa Woman`s Christian Association Hospital, Council: 1883 Hahnemann Hospital of Iowa City: 1886 Homoeopathic Hospital of the State University of Iowa, Iowa City: 1887 St. Bernhard`s Hospital, Council Bluffs: 1888 Des Moines Hospital and Institute of Homoeopathy: 1891, existed for a few months Homoeopathic Hospital, Iowa City Kalifornien Nevada City Homoeopathic Hospital: 1854-1862 San Francisco Homoeopathic Hospital: 1881, was closed between1884-1885 Hahnemann Hospital of San Francisco: 1887-1890 Phoebe Hearst Cottage Hospital: was meant to be children’s hospital San Francisco Surgical and Gynaecological Institute: 1872, existed for a short time Hospital of the Good Samaritan, San Diego: 1889 Oakland Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary Association, later The Fabiola Hospital: 1876 State Reform School Hospital, Los Angeles: 1891 Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital: 1891 Hahnemann Hospital of the City of San Francisco: the site for the hospital was aquired in 1891 The Southern California State Asylum for Insane and Inebriates, Patton: 1893 Homoeopathic Sanitarium, San Francisco: 1896. Hahnemann Hospital, San Francisco Kansas Kansas Surgical Hospital of Topeka: 1882 Wichita homoeopathic Hospital: 1889 Kansas City Homoeopathic Hospital: 1889 Kenntucky Southwestern Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital: 1895 Louisiana New Orleans Homoeopathic Hospital: the site was aquired in 1892 Maine Maine Homoeopathic Hospital: 1891 Maryland Carroll Springs Sanitarium, Forest Glenn: 1887 Maryland Homoeopathic Hospital, Baltimore: 1890 Maryland Homoeopathic Hospital, Baltimore: 1890 Baltimore Homoeopathic Sanitarium, Baltimore: 1893 Dr. Irving Miller`s Sanitarium, Baltimore: 1895 Dr. Barnard`s Private Sanitarium, Baltimore: 1897 Massachusetts Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, Boston: 1871 Newton Cottage Hospital: 1886 Westboro Homoeopathic Asylum for Insane: 1886 Boothby Surgical Hospital, Boston: 1889 Morton Hospital: 1889 Malden Hospital, Malden: 1890 Quincy Hospital,Quincy: 1890 Rufus S. Forest General Hospital, Chelsea: 1890 Boothby`s Hospital, Boston: 1891 Somerville Hospital, Somerville: 1891 Newton Nervine, Newton: 1892 Newburyport Homeopathic Hospital: 1893 Worcester Homoeopathic Hospital: 1893 Lowell General Hospital, Lowell: 1893 Newton Sanitarium, Newton: 1894 Framingham Nervine, Framingham: 1896 Massachusetts Hospital for Consuptives and Tubercular Diseases, Rutland: 1898 Homoeopathic Hospital, Newburryport Worcester Homoeopathic Hospital  Hahnemann Hospital – Worcester, Mass. Murdoch`s Free Surgical Hospital for Women Hampden Homoeopathic Hospital, Springfield Michigan Hospital of the Michigan State Prison: 1859-1862, homeopathic hospital between 1872-1876 Homoeopathic Hospital of the University of Michigan: 1878 Detroid Free Hospital (Grace Hospital, zuerst The McMillan and Newberry Free Hospital): 1888 Hospital of the Grand Rapids Union Benevolent Home: 1891 Reed City Sanitarium, Reed City: 1895 Homoeopathic Clinical Hospital, University of Michigan  Homeopathic Hospital – Ann Arbor, Michigan Minnesota Stillwater Homoeopathic Hospital: 1881 The Homoeopathic Hospital of Minneapolis: 1883 Maternity Hospital, Minneapolis: 1886 St. Paul Homoeopathic Hospital: 1887 State Hospital, Fergus Falls: 1890 Minneapolis Medical and Surgical Institute: 1890 Mississippi Mississippi State Hospital at Natches: from 1854 on, existed only for a short time Missouri Protestant Hospital of St.Louis later Good Samaritan Hospital of St.Louis: 1857 Calvary Bureau Hospital, St. Louis oder Post Hospital, Benton Barracks Hospital: 1864, existed only for a short time Orthopraxic Institute, St.Louis: 1878, existed for a short time St. Louis Children`s Hospital: 1880 The Children`s Hospital, St. Louis: 1880 Kansas City Homoeopathic Hospital: 1889 Woman`s Homoeopathic Hospital of Missouri: 1891 The Women`s Homoeopathic Hospital of St. Louis: 1891 The Free Homoeopathic Hospital of St. Louis: 1896 The State Asylum for Insane at Fulton: 1897-1901, was run as an allopathic institute The Homoeopathic Hospital and Training School of Kansas City: 1900 Montana Dr. Blackburn`s Hospital, Butte: 1892 New Jersey West New Jersey Homoeopathic Hospital, Camden: 1877 Plainfield Sanitarium, Plainfield: 1879 Camden Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary Association: 1885-1890 Trenton Homoeopathic Hospital, Trenton: 1888 Trenton City Hospital: 1889 The William McKinley Memorial Hospital, Trenton: 1889 Brookside Retreat, Plainfield: 1889 St. Mary`s Homoeopathic Hospital, Passaic: 1895 West Jersey Homoeopathic Hospital: 1892, the former The Camden Homoeopathic The Passaic Homoeopathic Hospital: 1897 The Homoeopathic Hospital of Essex County, Roseville: 1903 Hagensack Hospital New York Hospital of the Protestant Half-Orphan Asylum, New York: 1835, homeopathic hospital from 1847 on Hospital of the Auburn State Prison: 1840, homeopathic hospital for a short time Brooklyn Homoeopathic Hospital later The Brooklyn Homoeopathic Dispensary and Hospital: 1852 Homoeopathic Hospital in the City of New York: 1852 New York Ophthalmic Hospital: 1852, 1867 Children`s Hospital of the Five Points House of Industry: 1856 Laidslaw`s Private Hospital, New York: 1859 New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, New York: 1863 Woman`s Infirmary Association of Washington Heights, New York: 1864, later affiliated with the Women`s Department of Hahnemann Hospital Buffalo Ingleside Home and Hospital: 1869  Hahnemann Hospital – Buffalo, N.Y. Hospital of the New York Medical College for Women: 1869 Hahnemann Hospital, New York: 1870. New York Homoeopathic Surgical Hospital (1874) und New York Homoeopathic Hospital for Women and Children (1875), later the Hahnemann Hospital Brooklyn Homoeopathic Lying-in Asylum later The Brooklyn Homoeopathic Maternity: 1871 Flatbush Industrial School and Nursery später The Brooklyn Nursery: 1871 Brooklyn Nursery and Infant`s Hospital, Brooklyn: 1871 Albany City Homoeopathic Hospital later the Albany City Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary: 1872 Buffalo Homoeopathic Hospital: 1872 St. Luke`s Home and Hospital, Utica: 1872 Middletown State Homoeopathic Hospital, Middletown: 1874 Faxton Hospital, Utica: 1875 New York Homoeopathic Charity Hospital, Ward`s Island: 1875 Brooklyn Women`s Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary, Brooklyn: before 1883 the Memorial Hospital for Woman and Children Helmuth House, New York: 1886 The Laura Franklin Free Hospital for Children: 1886 Brooklyn Women`s Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary later The Memorial Hospital: 1887 House of the Good Samaritan Deaconesses: 1887 City Hospital, Binghamton: 1887 Hargous Memorial Hahnemann Hospital of Rochester: 1888 Hahnemann Homeopathic Hospital, Rochester: 1889 Isabella Helmuth Hospital: 1889 Rochester Homoeopathic Hospital: 1889 St. Marthas Sanitarium and Dispensary, Brooklyn: 1889 Florence Hospital of New York City: 1890 Flower Surgical Hospital, New York City or New York Free Homoeopathic Hospital: 1890 Lexington Heights Hospital, Buffalo: 1890 Metropolitan Hospital, Blackwell`s Island: 1894 Homoeopathic Hospital, Ward`s Island: ceased to exist after 1894 n Utica Homoeopathic Hospital, Utica: 1895  Homeopathic Hospital – Utica, N.Y. Muncie Sanatorium, Brooklyn: 1895 Syracuse Homoeopathic Hospital, Syracuse: 1896 Harlem Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary: 1896 The Yonkers Homoeopathic Hospital and Maternity Home: 1896 The Mt. Vernon Homoeopathic Hospital: 1897 Twenty-sixth Ward Homoeopathic Hospital, Brooklyn: 1899 Muncie Seaside Sanitarium, Babylon: 1897 Liberty Homoeopathic Sanitarium for Tuberculosis, Liberty: 1898 Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary, Mount Vernon: 1899, has not yet opened Harlem Homoeopathic Hospital, New York: 1899, has not yet opened Utica City Hospital Homoeopathic Hospital, Middletown Homoeopathic Insane Asylum, Middletown Homoeopathic Hospital, Rochester New Homoeopathic Hospital, Albany Middletown State Homoeopathic Hospital Ohio: Cleveland Homoeopathic Hospital (Lake Street Hospital): 1856, only existed for a few years St. Vincent`s Hospital: 1860 Wilson Street Hospital, Cleveland: 1866 Cleveland Protestant Homoeopathic Hospital (Huron Street Hospital): 1868 United States Marine Hospital, Cleveland: 1869, was later converted into an allopathic hospital Cleveland Workhouse Hospital: 1870-1881 Cincinnati Ophthalmic and Aural Institute: 1872 Toledo Protestant Hospital: 1877 Cleveland Homoeopathic Hospital, Cleveland: 1867 Toledo Hospital, Toledo: 1874 Ohio Hospital for Women and Children, Cinncinnati later Women`s Free Dispensary Association of Cinncinati: 1882 Maternity Hospital, Cleveland: 1891 Dr. C.E. Sawyer Sanitarium, Marion: 1895 Hospital of the State Penitentiary at Columbus: only for a short time a homeopathic hospital Cleveland Homoeopathic Hospital College Sixth Avenue Private Hospital, Columbus Oregon Portland Methodist Hospital: 1886, homeopathic hospital since 1895 Pennsylvania Cholera Hospital, Philadelphia: 1832 Homoeopathic Hospital of Pennsylvania later Homoeopathic Hospital of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia: 1852 Lancaster Almshouse Hospital: 1860 War Hospital of Philadelphia: 1862, closed after the war Homoeopathic Medical and Surgical Hospital and Dispensary of Pittsburgh: 1866  Homeopathic Hospital – Pittsburg, Pa. Homoeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia: 1871-1886 Pennsylvania Homoeopathic Hospital for Children: 1877, later affiliated with the Hahnemann College Hospital Children`s Homoeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia: 1877 Medical, Surgical and Maternity Hospitals of the Women`s Homoeopathic Association of Pennsylvania: 1882 Eye and Surgical Institute, Philadelphia: 1886 Gynaecological Hospital, Philadelphia: 1888 Hamst Hospital, Erie: 1881 St. Vincent Hospital: Erie: 1875 Walter`s Sanitarium, Walter`s Park: 1877 The Homoeopathic Medical and Surgical Hospital of Reading: 1887 Homoeopathic Medical and Surgical Hospital of Reading: 1891 Reading Homoeopathic Hospital: 1891 The Women`s Southern Homoeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia: 1895 St. Luke`s Homoeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia: 1895 Hahnemann Hospital, Scranton: 1897 Elmwood Hall, Elmhurst: 1898 Easton Sanitarium, Easton: 1894 Woman`s Southern Homoeopathic Hospital, Philadelphia: 1896 Hahnemann Homoeopathic Hospital, Scranton: 1897  Hahnemann Hospital – Scranton, Pa. The West Philadelphia Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary: 1903 Harrisburg Hospital: later a homeopathic hospital Convent Infirmary of Benedictine Sisters, Erie: a regular hospital, but the nurses offer homeopathic treatments Allentown Homoeopathic Hospital State Homoeopathic Hospital, Allentown Chester Homoeopathic Hospital Homeopathic Hospital, Reading Homoeopathic Hospital, Scranton Homeopathic Hospital, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Homoeopathic State Hospital for the Insane The Pennsylvania Homoeopathic Hospital for Children J. Lewis Crozer Home and Hospital for Incurables Rhode Island Rhode Island Homoeopathic Hospital, Providence: 1881  Homeopathic Hospital of R.I.– Providence, R.I. Vermont The Sparhaw Sanitarium, Burlington: 1887 Wisconsin Pennoyer Sanitarium, Kenosha: 1889 Reference Bradford, T.L. Homoeopathic Bibliography of the United States. Philadelphia 1892. Haehl, R. Samuel Hahnemann. Bd. I. Leipzig 1922. King, W. History of Homoeopathy and its Institutions in America. Bd. I-IV. New York and Chicago 1905. Smith, T. Homoeopathic Organisations and Institutions in the United States. Transactions of the American Institute of Homoeopathy 55(1899). Original postcards from the collection of Dr. K.-H. Gypser Dr. H. Gypser Schäferei 22 D-56653 Glees |
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