Hahnemann’s Removal to Kothen



SUPPLEMENT 70

HAHNEMANN’S LECTURES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIPSIC

are in the official “Catalogus Lectionum” of the University indexed as follows:

W.S. 1812-13. (Winter Session) D. Sam. Hahnemann, bin. dieb. h. III historiam medicinae enarrabit secundum schedas suas, gratis; quat. dieb. h. III institutions artis morbos hominum sanandi duce libro: Organon of the Rational Art of Healing.

S.S. 1813. (Summer Session) D. Sam. Hahnemann, bin. dieb. h. II, Institutiones praxeos medicae gratis tradet, sequuturus librum suum (Organon of the Rational Art of Healing); quartern. dieb. h. II historiam medicinae docebit gratis.

W.S. 1813-14.

D. Sam. Hahnemann, quat. dieb. h. II Institutiones medicinae; bin. dieb. h. ead. historian medicinae gratis tradere perget.

S.S. 1814.

D. Sam. Hahnemann, horis constituend. artem sanandi docebit, et bin. dieb. h. II historiam medicinae tradere perget.

W.S. 1814-15.

D. Sam. Hahnemann, dieb. Lun. et Mart. Institutiones medicinae, dieb. Jov. et Ven. historiam medicinae pragmaticam, utramque gratis tradere perget.

S.S. 1815.

D. Sam. Hahnemann, quat. dieb. h. II Institutiones medicinae homoeopathicae secundum Organon of the Rational Art of Healing tradet.

W.S. 1815-16.

D. Sam. Hahnemann, bin. dieb. h. II Institutiones medicinae homoeopathicae, secundum ejus Organon of the Rational Art of Healing tradet gratis.

S.S. 1816.

D. Sam. Hahnemann, bin. dieb. h. II Institutiones medicinae homoeopathicae, secundum suum Organon of the Rational Art of Healing tradet gratis.

W.S. 1816-17. D. Sam. Hahnemann, bin. dieb. h. II Institutiones medicinae homoeopathicae, secundum suum Organon of the Rational Art of Healing tradet gratis.

S.S. 1817.

D. Sam. Hahnemann, bin. dieb. h. II Institutiones medicinae verae secundum suum Organon of the Rational Art of Healing tradet gratis.

W.S. 1817-18.

D. Sam. Hahnemann, bin. dieb. h. II Institutiones medicinae verae secundum suum Organon of the Rational Art of Healing tradet privatissime.

S.S. 1818.

do. do.

W.S. 1818-19.

do. do.

S.S. 1819. D. Sam. Hahnemann, bin. dieb. h. II Institutiones medicinae verae secundum suum Organon of the Healing Art, edit, secund. 1819, tradet privatissime.

W.S. 1819-20.

do. do.

S.S. 1820.

D. Sam. Hahnemann, bin. dieb. h. II artem morbos sanandi secundum suum Organon of the Healing Art, (edit. secund. 1819) tradet privatissime.

W.S. 1820-21.

do. do.

SUPPLEMENT 71

ACADEMICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEPARTURE FOR DR. HAHNEMANN.

We, the Chancellor, Professors, and Doctors of the University of Leipsic, record and acknowledge herewith,

hat Doctor Samuel Hahnemann, Practitioner of Medicine, has resided here with his family since 1812 and throughout the time of his residence here until now, there has never been one complaint or information against him or his family in the Academic Court of Justice, he has always paid his taxes punctually and fully.

We make therefore this certificate in accordance with truth, stamping it with the seal of our University and have had it signed personally by the sworn-in Actuario.

CHRISTIAN ERNST MIRIUS, Academiae Actuarius.

Given at Leipsic, 5 June, 1821.

SEAL.

SUPPLEMENT 72

PATENT FOR HOFRATH DR. HAHNEMANN.

By the Grace of God, WE, Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt, Duke of Saxony, Engern and Westphalia, Earl of Askanien, Lord of Bernburg and Zerbst, etc., etc.

We record and acknowledge herewith that WE have graciously resolved to nominate Doctor Hahnemann, resident here, as our Hofrath. WE nominate and confirm it herewith in the full trust that he may appreciate this nomination as a special favour from

US.

This patent has been drawn up and recorded under Our seal and signed by Our own hand.

FERDINAND, Duke of Anhalt.

Given at Kothen 14th May, 1822.

SEAL.

By explicit and special order of the Duke, the State Administrative Commission had to notify Dr. Hahnemann of this immediately, and in the Newspaper of Cothen was to be published:

His Sovereign Highness has graciously deigned to nominate on the 13th inst. Dr. Hahnemann His Highness’s Hofrath.

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PATENT OF SETTLEMENT FOR DR. MOSSDORF.

(According to the original in the Ducal private Archives at Zerbst).

(Entered June 4th, 1822).

Hofrath Dr. Hahnemann, having practiced the homoeopathic method here for a year, and no case of death or accident from this method having come to my knowledge, I having, on the contrary, learned that many patients have been relieved and cured, I am convinced that if homoeopathy is not more advantageous than allopathy, it can at all events be considered as on a par with the latter. I therefore consider it my duty as a ruler to maintain it for suffering humanity, especially for my subjects, and as not one of the physicians of the Dukedom has yet adopted the Homoeopathic system, and owing to the great age of Hofrath Dr. Hahnemann, it it to be feared that his strength may not last much longer, I have resolved to allow one of his most distinguished pupils, Dr. Theodore Mossdorf, a native of Dresden, to settle in this country as a practising Homoeopathic physician, and to prepare and dispense the remedies required in his treat- ment.

On condition that Dr. Mossdorf is willing to render all assistance to Hofrath Dr. Hahnemann, he will not only receive a patent of naturalisation, but also be admitted as my subject.

Dr. Mossdorf will also be exempt from the usual examination, seeing that Homoeopathy is founded on quite different principles from allopathy, and hence it would be improper to subject a disciple of Homoeopathy to an allopathic examination, just as it would be useless to ascertain the suitability of a Protestant candidate by having him examined by a Catholic bishop.

In other respects it is of course understood that Dr. Mossdorf has to submit to all other State and Police laws and regulations and has to obey the orders of my Medical Directors, from which, however, like all my subjects, he can appeal to me.

The Commissioner of the State Administration has to do all that is required for carrying my resolution into effect, and to make it known to all whom it may concern.

(Signed) FERDINAND.

Kothen, I June, 1822.

To my State Administration Commission.

The patent of settlement and naturalisation of Dr. Mossdorf of Dresden, was already signed by the Government authority on June 11th, 1822, and on June 17th, the Medical Council, the police authorities, the Mayor, and both physicians concerned, Hahnemann and Mossdorf were notified by a copy.

SUPPLEMENT 74

PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF HAHNEMANN.

In the “Korrespondent von und fur Deutschland” (No. 109 of April 19th, 1821), we read:

The inventor of the Homoeopathic system, Dr. Sam. Hahnemann, leaves Leipsic in the next few days, and will establish himself, as a practising physician in Kothen. His Serene Highness, the Duke of Anhalt-Cothen, has not only allowed him to do this, but also, graciously granted him permission to prepare with his own hands the required medicines, and dispense them himself to his patients without the intervention of the apothecaries. The Medical Council of Kothen has given by this act a praiseworthy example of real disinterestedness, and of true regard for the progress of science. It has not thought it justifiable to withhold home and shelter from this true searcher after truth, or to dispute the right of preparing and dispensing his own remedies with the most famous teacher of chemistry and pharmacy. To Dr. Hahnemann, could not well be forbidden, what he had taught, seeing that for twenty years the apothecaries of Germany have consulted his Apotheker-Lexicon in all cases of doubt. It could not be denied him, as the Hahnemann method of treatment cannot be carried on under the present conditions, without personal dispensing of the remedies by the physician. A large number of patients, whose treatment was interrupted for several months on account of the persecution against Dr. Hahnemann, which was going on in Leipsic, will now be able to follow their own inclinations unmolested and our free-thinking (!) century is spared the reproach of having suppressed one of the most remarkable discoveries for the welfare of humanity and of having purposely retarded one of the most comforting prospects to those who suffer.

In a correspondence from Cothen (March 9th) in the “Staatsund Gelehrten Zeit. des Hamb. unparth. Korrespond,” 1824, No. 44, it says:

Our highly venerated Duke, who was suffering from a dangerous nerve affection, is now out of danger, thanks to the efforts of Dr. Hahnemann, so famous for his method of treatment. When the inventor of Homoeopathy found a friendly reception as well as protection in a country where the Sovereign supports every effort for the improvement of science, he scarcely foresaw, that by his art he would save the life of his illustrious patron. Nor did our Gracious Duke think of himself when he extended his protection to the noble and oppressed cause of this well-known physician for the purpose of delivering it to the impartial judgment of posterity. In perfect harmony they meet with the consciousness of a feeling of mutual gratitude.

SUPPLEMENT 75

LETTER OF THE DUCHESS JULIE TO HAHNEMANN.

Richard Haehl
Richard M Haehl 1873 - 1932 MD, a German orthodox physician from Stuttgart and Kirchheim who converted to homeopathy, travelled to America to study homeopathy at the Hahnemann College of Philadelphia, to become the biographer of Samuel Hahnemann, and the Secretary of the German Homeopathic Society, the Hahnemannia.

Richard Haehl was also an editor and publisher of the homeopathic journal Allgemcine, and other homeopathic publications.

Haehl was responsible for saving many of the valuable artifacts of Samuel Hahnemann and retrieving the 6th edition of the Organon and publishing it in 1921.
Richard Haehl was the author of - Life and Work of Samuel Hahnemann