Physicians turn to alternative medicine as a safe and reliable medicine
Therefore, some physician also practiced homeopathy and naturopathy and some even taught homeopathy at universities (i.e. Samuel Hahnemann and Carl Gottlob Caspari in Leipzig, Joseph Benedikt Buchner in Munich, Friedrich Ludwig Fleischmann in Erlangen, Johann Joseph Roth in Munich, Ernst Bastanier in Berlin (Lucae p. 182)). Often those physicians tried to convey between mainstream medicine and unorthodox medicine. Recognition and rejection of unorthodox medicine was not dependent on the medicinal efficacy! Many people of the mainstream medicine were opposing the unorthodox medicine probably due to social conflicts (Faltin p. 206).