Described variously as 'a brilliant stroll through medical history, showing that homeopathic physicians were more than a hundred years ahead of their time,' and 'both scholarly and entertaining,'  Sane Asylums is a rare work that reveals the astonishing but suppressed history of homeopathy in the USA in the late 1800s and early 1900s, with more than 100 homeopathic hospitals, 1000 homeopathic pharmacies and 22 homeopathic medical schools at that time. In particular, it shows how homeopathic psychiatry flourished from the 1870s to the 1930s with thousands of documented successful outcomes in treating mental illness.
A wonderful and illuminating read, this is a missing piece in the history of homeopathy which documents clearly how homeopathy was pushed aside by the rise of pharmaceuticals, explaining also the genesis of the current critical attitude towards homeopathy and the great extent to which this has distorted the truth about its history as an integrated and highly successful part of American (mental) healthcare.
A must-read.