Founders and practitioners of alternative medicine systems and devices outside naturopathy, osteopathy and chiropractic, Ayurveda, Unani, Chinese medicine, African healing, somatic bodywork and hydrotherapy, each of which has its own group here. This covers the founders of homeopathy and its offshoots, mesmerism and animal magnetism, anthroposophical medicine and its associated therapies, claimed psychic and faith healing, alternative cancer treatment protocols, energy-medicine devices, and other named alternative systems and their popularizers, together with a Renaissance physician and alchemist whose rejection of prevailing Galenic medicine helped found the alternative medical tradition that followed. A figure grouped here may hold a real medical credential; what places them in this group is that their notable contribution to medicine is a specific alternative system or claim rather than one of the eight named traditions grouped separately.
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1. Alternative medicine (Wikipedia)
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Alternative medicine comprises practices that aim to achieve the healing effects of medicine, but that lack biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or supporting evidence of effectiveness.
Gustav Jäger (Deutsche Biographie)
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J., der mit seiner auf die Seelenkunde bezogenen Gesundheitslehre großes Aufsehen erregte
Ignaz von Peczely (Wikipedia)
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considered the father of modern iridology
James Tyler Kent (Wikipedia)
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forefather of modern homeopathy
Tony Agpaoa (Wikipedia)
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practitioner of psychic surgery
Ruth B. Drown (Wikipedia)
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alternative medicine practitioner, chiropractor and proponent of radionics
Hawayo Takata (Wikipedia)
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introduce the spiritual practice of Reiki
Elizabeth Wright Hubbard (Wikipedia)
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physician and homeopath
Alla Selawry (Wikipedia)
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doctor, homeopath
Elvira Bierbach (Wikipedia)
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alternative medicine practitioner
Kalle Reichelt (Wikipedia)
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was a Norwegian medical researcher and alternative medicine practitioner
Francesco Racanelli (source article)
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the originator of an unconventional therapy that he called in Italian: medicina bioradiante or "bio-radiant medicine"
Manfred Curry (source article)
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became the self-proclaimed discoverer of the pseudoscientific phenomenon of "geomagnetic lines" or "Earth radiation"
Constantine Hering (source article)
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was a Saxony-born, American medical doctor who was a pioneer of homeopathy in the United States
Larkin B. Coles (Wikipedia)
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Christian health reform with arguments for exercise, fresh air, vegetarianism, non-use of stimulants, sexual purity and drugless medicine
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