Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital

Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital was a homeopathic institution in Boston, Massachusetts, at which the first successful kidney removal in New England was performed.

[1] Established by an act of the Massachusetts legislature in 1855, the hospital opened its doors in 1871 at a site in Jamaica Plain.

In 1874 it moved into a newly built facility in the South End of Boston.

[2] The hospital eventually abandoned homeopathic practices, and in 1929 was renamed the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital to better conform to modern nomenclature.

[3] In 1962 Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals merged with the Boston University Medical Center, now part of Boston Medical Center, in order "to provide and maintain better health in contemporary society.