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The American Medical Association creates a department to investigate unapproved forms of medicine.

1906

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The American Medical Association (AMA) creates a Propaganda Department, which will later be renamed the Bureau of Investigation, to find and discipline doctors that use "patent medicines" as well as natural and traditional remedies. In coming decades, the Bureau will maintain files on health foods, vitamins, acupuncture, faith healing, and Scientology.