During the following session of the Institute, Professor Rosa lectured “with dignity upon the principles of Homeopathy” as was declared by the whole class, “notwithstanding the many embarrassments appendaged thereunto.” As a result, a few students were won over to Homeopathy, though the majority of the class remained Eclectic. At the Commencement, held March 6, 1850, six students received both Eclectic and Homeopathic diplomas. Thus was the Eclectic Medical Institute the first institution in the West to give Homeopathic instruction, and the first in the West to graduate a class in Homeopathy. In this class was the distinguished Homeopathic historian
