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.


Re small doses Hahnemann wrote : “What would they have risked ” (certain of his contemporaries) “if they had first followed my indications and had employed small doses ? The worst which could have befallen them was, that these doses would be of no avail. It was impossible that they should do any harm.

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.

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.