Samuel Hahnemann

Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases. Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.

THE CHRONIC DISEASES,THEIR PECULIAR NATURE AND THEIR HOMOEOPATHIC CURE

Many of the readers of this journal will be delighted by being able to obtain Hahnemanns masterpiece, which has been practically unobtainable for many years. We owe a debt of gratitude to the publishing house for having brought out this wonderful work. The volumes are printed in excellent clear type on excellent paper, and are sumptuously bound. They are a delight to the eye.

THE SMALL DOSES OF HAHNEMANN

But instead of exhibiting small doses, they employed, from a want of sense, and of their own accord, large doses for homoeopathic use thus exposing the lives of their patients and arriving at truth by that circuitous route which I had travelled upon before them with trembling hesitation, but the end of which I had just reached with success. Nevertheless, after having done much mischief, and having squandered the best period of their lives, they were obliged, when they were really desirous of curing disease, to resort to the only true method which I had demonstrated to them a long while ago.”-Chronic Diseases.

TARAXACUM

A fundamental principle which distinguishes the homoeopathic physician from every physician of all older schools, is this: that he never gives a medicine whose effect has not been previously proved and thus made known to him. To prescribe for the sick on some mere conjecture of some possible usefulness in some similar disease, or from hearsay that a remedy has helped in such and such a disease, is a conscientious venture that the philanthropic homoeopath will leave to the allopath.

TARAXACUM

Full of discharges; catarrhal, watery, from different places, even watery stools: and all these discharges are horribly offensive and ichorous. Bloody discharges, horribly offensive, from nose, eyes, ears, chest, bowels, fistula openings, ulcers. The phlegmatic person who is purple, who gets no sympathy when sick, and is almost distracted about the horrible fetid discharges. Even the discharges from the eyes may be bloody and offensive.