No Harm Was Done-Alternative Medicine in Lockport, New York is based up a series of published articles and lectures from 2015- 2017. When studying care and healing in Western New York the author discovered a number of offerings that were based upon an alternative view of health that differed from the traditional (often called allopathic) medicine of the time. The mainstream medicine practiced in the 1800s into the early 1900s was primitive. Doctors were often untrained, science lacking, and licensing was not formalized. Bleeding, ingestion of toxic substances and surgeries were heavily used. People had little confidence in traditional doctors.
The alternative medicine providers, who were Western New York healers, used a variety of techniques and vibrant aids to help their patients. Allopathic (traditional) medicine, at that time could be much more dangerous.
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James M Boles is a retired Health and Human services administrator with over forty years' experience is the helping professions. Starting in direct care positions he rose to the position of CEO in a not for profit human service agency serving over 10,000 people. He has been researching early healing, health and helping agencies for many years and has an interest in under-examined or unexplored history. His background includes the opening of one of the first community group homes for the Mentally Ill, founding of the Museum of disABILITY History, Buffalo, New York and authoring and contributing to many publications. Founder of People Inc Press which publishes disability related materials. He received his Doctor of Education degree from Columbia University in 1978. For several years, as adjunct professor, he taught disability related courses at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York. In 2006 he was appointed by George W. Bush to the board of The President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, serving two terms. The American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities presented him in 2011 with the Hervey B. Wilburn Historic Preservation Award.
