Key Takeaways:

• Reconstructs the 19th- and early-20th-century battles between homeopathic physicians and the rising allopathic establishment.
• Argues that professional power, economics, and ideology—not only scientific evidence—shaped the AMA’s hostility to homeopathy.
• Shows how licensing, medical schools, and journal control were used to marginalize competing systems of healing.
• Provides a historical lens for understanding how “orthodox” medicine achieves dominance and why alternative modalities often survive on the margins.