Hahnemann looked for his vindication to posterity: and repetition of the doses will be doubted for years, even by the greater number of homoeopathic physicians….. I do not comprehend it, but facts speak for themselves. The truth of my proposition is demonstrated by experience, in which I have more faith than in my intelligence.” “Is not truth eternal though it may have been discovered only an hour ago?… Was there ever a discovery or a truth that was not at first novel?” “It would be foolish to refuse to learn to write because we cannot understand how thought can be embodied in written words.” “Does the physician risk anything by imitating a method which I have adopted from long experience and observation?”
“This doctrine appeals solely to the verdict of experience. `Repeat the experiments,’ it cries aloud, `repeat them carefully and accurately, and you will find the doctrine confirmed at every step’; and it does what no medical doctrine, no system of physic, no so-called therapeutics ever did or could do – it insists upon being judged by results.”
The quotations in this article are from Hahnemann’s “Materia Medica Pura,” “Organon” (Wesselhoeft’s translation), and “Chronic Diseases.” I am indebted also to the biographies of Hahnemann by Bradford and by Haehl, and to Professor Bier’s “What shall be Our Attitude towards Homoeopathy?”.