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Dr. Benedict Lust (M.D., D.C., N.D.) a German doctor and
chiropractor who emigrated to the U.S. in 1892, was America&#8217;s
first naturopathic physician. Although ridiculed by the
establishment for his &#8216;revolutionary&#8217; ideas of
exercise, vegetarianism and healthy living, Benedict Lust, founded
the first health food store as we know it, and crystallized the
focus of naturopathy on diet and nutrition as the chief route to
health. He also started the country&#8217;s health spa, in Butler
NJ, and founded the first naturopathic college, the American School
of Naturopathy and chiropractic in 1902, in New York.
&#8220;Where there is no official recognition and regulation,
you will find plotters, the thieves, the charlatans operating on
the same basis as the conscientious practitioners&#8230; Frankly
such conditions cannot be remedied until suitable safeguards are
erected by law, or by the profession itself, around the practice of
Naturopathy.&#8221;
- Benedict Lust, circa 1902, the founding father of
naturopathy.
Naturopathic medicine grew through the 1910s and 1920s, but by
the 1930s and 1940s, pressure from the pharmaceutical companies,
political leaders, the rise of antibiotics, and numerous other
factors caused a severe decline: In 1910, when the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching published the Flexner
Report which criticized many aspects of medical education in
various institutions (natural and conventional), it was mostly seen
as an attack on low-quality natural medicine education. It caused
many such programs to shut down and contributed to the popularity
of conventional medicine. Schools were closed, sanatoriums shut
down, and doctors had their privileges revoked. However, because
chiropractic colleges excided the standards of education forced
upon the medical institution by the "Flexner" reform, most of them
stayed open and flourished. But Naturopathic medicine, with its
herbs, Nature Cure, and holistic view of the body was considered
unscientific and based on unproven folk tradition. It therefore was
almost lost.
However naturopathic medicine did not go away. It was kept alive
by chiropractors in Portland, Oregon where graduates of the Western
States Chiropractic College could enrol in a 2-year postgraduate
course of study and receive a degree in naturopathy. This lasted
until 1956 when the program was dropped. To keep the practice of
naturopathy going, several naturopaths and chiropractors founded
the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1956 in Portland,
Oregon. It moved briefly to Seattle and then returned to Portland
where it is today. Very slowly Naturopathic medicine began to
rise.
CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS LEADING TO THE BIRTH OF MODERN
NATUROPATHY
Chiropractic education was introduced in Portland as early as
1904 when Drs. John and Eva Marsh opened Marshes' School and Cure.
In 1909, the college changed its name to Pacific College of
Chiropractic.
The institution absorbed the Lindlahr College of Naturopathy in
1926 and introduced one of the first four-year courses in the
profession in 1928.
Pacific College of Chiropractic entered a new phase in January
1929, when the college was purchased for $20,000 by the former dean
of the National College of Chiropractic in Chicago, William Alfred
Budden, DC, ND (a chiropractor and naturopath). The timing was
terrible, for the U.S. stock market crash and the onset of the
Great Depression were only nine months away. Dr. Budden would
struggle for years to keep the school afloat, eventually
re-chartering the institution as the non-profit Western States
College, including instruction leading to degrees in chiropractic
and naturopathy. During his tenure at the reins of the institution
(he died "in the saddle" in 1954), the Western States College,
School of Chiropractic and School of Naturopathy, would exert a
profound influence on the course of the profession, both through
Budden's activities within the National Chiropractic Association's
Council on Education (today's CCE), and by way of the several
exceptional doctors he trained.
In 1932 the Pacific Chiropractic College was reorganized and
became Western States College and Drugless Physicians (1932 &#8211;
1956). The College also offered a degree in naturopathy from the
mid-thirties through the mid-fifties. Now called the Western States
Chiropractic College (1956 &#8211; present).
Western States College has struggled on through the decades
since Budden&#8217;s demise. The school eventually divorced itself
from naturopathic education, as the NCA had been urging since 1939,
but maintained a very broad instructional program. Chiropractic and
naturopathy were taught together until about 1955 when the National
Chiropractic Association stopped granting accreditation to schools
that also taught naturopathy.
In the mid-1950's, when Western States Chiropractic College in
Portland decided to discontinue naturopathic training, Dr. Bastyr
knew it was time to take action, so he and few colleagues decided
to open a school in Seattle. In 1956 National College of
Naturopathic Medicine was born and Dr. Bastyr and other
practitioners became teachers. Dr. John Bastyr, the naturopathic
physician for whom Bastyr University in Seattle is named.
A chiropractor, Dr. John Bartholomew Bastyr, N.D., D.C
(1912-1995), is credited with being the Father of Modern
Naturopathic Medicine. Because of Bastyr&#8217;s influence
naturopaths have been at the forefront of the rebirth of homeopathy
in this country. He made sure that homeopathy shared equal emphasis
with nutrition, hydrotherapy and botanical medicine in naturopathic
education. Dr. Bastyr considered manipulation the most important
therapy in his practice.
He immediately went on in his studies of choice and received
doctorate degrees in naturopathy and chiropractic from Northwest
Drugless Institute and Seattle Chiropractic College, respectively.
He became licensed to practice naturopathic medicine in 1936.
National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) is the oldest
programmatically accredited naturopathic medical school in North
America. NCNM had its beginnings in the early 1950's, in response
to the termination of the naturopathic program at Western States
Chiropractic College. Members of the profession from Oregon,
Washington, and British Columbia planned the founding of the
College and in May 1956, in Portland, Oregon.

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