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Exhibit 045

Medical Education Reform Efforts and Failures of U.S. Medical Schools, 1870–1930

Exhibit 045 · Peer-reviewed article

Medical Education Reform Efforts and Failures of U.S. Medical Schools, 1870–1930

Miller and Weiss report that homeopathic and eclectic students fell from 17 percent of all medical students in 1880 to 6 percent in 1910, and that by 1909 allopathic schools averaged 180 students, homeopathic schools 78 and eclectic schools 48.

Source
Miller and Weiss, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 63(3)
Date
2008
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrn002
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Figures known through Constellations (University of Alberta), "The Impact of the Flexner Report on Sectarian Medical Schools," which cites this article.

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