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John Henry Tilden, the Glossary

John Henry Tilden (January 21, 1851 – September 1, 1940) was an American physician and natural hygiene proponent best known in circles of alternative healthcare for his criticism of pharmaceutics and for his theory explaining disease via "toxaemia" which influenced the field of naturopathy.^[1]

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Alternative medicine

Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability or evidence of effectiveness.

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American Medical Association

The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Eclectic medicine

Eclectic medicine was a branch of American medicine that made use of botanical remedies along with other substances and physical therapy practices, popular in the latter half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.

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Fad diet

A fad diet is a diet that is popular, generally only for a short time, similar to fads in fashion, without being a standard scientific dietary recommendation, and often making unreasonable claims for fast weight loss or health improvements; as such it is often considered a type of pseudoscientific diet.

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Fit for Life

Fit for Life is a diet and lifestyle book series stemming from the principles of orthopathy.

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Harriet Hall

Harriet A. Hall (July 2, 1945 – January 11, 2023) was an American family physician, U.S. Air Force flight surgeon, author, science communicator and skeptic.

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Henry G. Bieler

Henry G. Bieler (April 2, 1893 – October 11, 1975) was an American physician and germ theory denialist, best known for his book Food is Your Best Medicine, which advocated the treatment of disease with foods. John Henry Tilden and Henry G. Bieler are alternative detoxification promoters, alternative medicine activists, naturopaths and pseudoscientific diet advocates.

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Marilyn Diamond

Marilyn Diamond is an American author and speaker on the topic of anti-aging and longevity. John Henry Tilden and Marilyn Diamond are alternative detoxification promoters and pseudoscientific diet advocates.

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Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.

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Naturopathy

Naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a form of alternative medicine.

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Nokomis, Illinois

Nokomis is a city in Montgomery County, Illinois, United States.

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Orthopathy

Orthopathy (from the Greek ὀρθός orthos 'right' and πάθος pathos 'suffering') or natural hygiene (NH) is a set of alternative medical beliefs and practices originating from the Nature Cure movement.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Quackery

Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices.

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Science-Based Medicine

Science-Based Medicine is a website and blog with articles covering issues in science and medicine, especially medical scams and practices.

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Tilden School for Teaching Health

The Tilden School for Teaching Health operated from 1916 to 1931 as a private residential teaching institution and sanitarium that offered patients an alternative to the standard medical practices of the day.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Van Burensburg, Illinois

Van Burensburg is an unincorporated community in Fillmore Township, Montgomery County, Illinois, United States.

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Vitalism

Vitalism is a belief that starts from the premise that "living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than are inanimate things." Where vitalism explicitly invokes a vital principle, that element is often referred to as the "vital spark", "energy", "élan vital" (coined by vitalist Henri Bergson), "vital force", or "vis vitalis", which some equate with the soul.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Tilden