The material he published was from the Eclectics, Thomsonian medicalists and Physiomedicalists. The architecture is typical for the late Empire style, with some elements of European eclectics. Life root, as it was called by the Eclectics, was used as a uterine tonic. Other eclectics included Varro and Seneca the Younger. Baranovsky's style varied through different shades of eclectics, eventually focusing on Art Nouveau. After 1865, Eclectics controlled the club exclusively, and the Alpha Eating Club survived until 1975.