The Huffington Post (huffingtonpost.com) – Lincoln and His Team of Homeopaths (Sunday, December 23, 2012)-

 

By Dana Ullman, MPH, AANP 2012 Convention Keynote Speaker!

 

There is a wide body of evidence that Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) maintained a special interest in and appreciation for homeopathic medicine. It is therefore not surprising that many of Lincoln’s advisers were users of and advocates for homeopathy.

 

Before Lincoln was elected president, in 1854 he was retained as a lawyer to prepare a state legislative proposal to charter a homeopathic medical college in Chicago.[15] Chicago was the home of the American Medical Association, which had been founded in 1847 in part to stop the growth of homeopathy, and therefore, Lincoln’s job was no simple effort.