Delegates conclude the great success of homoeopathy must solely be due to allopathic physician's bad marketing and public relations. At this meeting the American Medical Association was founded as a guild of physicians to protect the business interests of its members, and as a direct counterpart to the American Institute of Homoeopathy. A well organized campaign to ostracize homoeopathy and dominate the practice of medicine in the U.S. is launched and continues to this day. Arrival in California of the 'forty niner' homoeopaths. Birth of the American pharmaceutical industry manufacturing traditional medicines.
Drug companies begin to expand their influence and territory.
Patent medicine industry evolves. Founding of California State Homoeopathic Medical Association. Drug companies and AMA doctors become allies against homoeopaths. AMA claiming non-sectarianism, lures banned homoeopaths to rejoin and takes over homoeopathic medical schools. Seven homoeopathic medical schools remain in existence.