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Medical students oberserving a surgical procedure, Hahnemann Clinical Amphitheatre, Philadelphia, PA, 1892.
Credit: Drexel University College of Medicine, Archives and Special Collections
Founded in 1848, Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital was named after Samuel Hahnemann, the German father of modern homeopathy, one of the world's most widespread non-conventional approaches to the treatment if illnesses. For many decades, Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital led the nation in the training of homeopathic physicians.