Hahnemann’s Second Marriage



I found, therefore, that the public was very prejudiced against homoeopathy. As I considered it worth while to change the prevailing opinion in the capital, of France and win recognitions s well as admiration for our system of treatment, seeing that Paris gives the gone almost to the rest of the world with the exception of China and japan, I endeavored to begin this difficult task, but I found that this could not be a accomplished by writings-because her a great deal is written. therefore, we did not want reputations or retorts from the allopathies, who are cures. Successful treatments must appoint he eyes of the public. This I have faithfully and diligently done so that now the patients come without having been recommended by those I had treated, by entirely because of my widespread reputation, which means something in a city of a million inhabitants. Meanwhile the influential and rich people, the only ones who could found the hospital are restrained by the old comities de la medicine, and kept away from us, so that for several years I do not think that I shall be able to erect a homoeopathic hospital here.

My dear wife would like to come near to you; she is at present in the adjacent room where she treats daily thirsty to forty patients, and to my get astonishment frequently with good results; the influx of those who seek he help is incredible, very often burdensome-I try to minimise this enormous work as much as possible and ruse the overflow, yet it can hardly be restrained. She frequently tales notes of my patients who come earlier in the day, and so we work until six o’clock when we gave our meal and afterwards drive round to the bed-ridden patients because to visit patients of any rank who can leave their house, and be turned from the door when they are not at home, lowers the dignity of the true physician.

All the heads of the Government are only full of politics; therefore there is no question yet of a homoeopathic hospital which could be erected for less than a million francs. A little while ago the North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Art of Healing in?Allentown, on the Leche, not far from Philadelphia, sent me a diploma of honorary membership. They surpass Europe.

Germany’s slander and bad behaviour as well as distortion of our art does not affect me.

(Last letter written by himself)

SUPPLEMENT 176

AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF HOMOEOPATHY, AND THE SEMI HOMOEOPATHS OF FRANCE AND GERMANY

Hahnemann writes to Boenninghausen:

Paris, January 7th, 1836.

Rue de Madame, No.7.

Up to the present the great Society for natural research has set as its goal, apart from a little activity in its own branch and much feasting, to express in. the fullest measure its anger against the new method of treatment, a nd to abuse it. It is just as well that you have at least for the time being driven out this inordinate desire. The Society is the one which should test and recognize the new teaching because it pretends to be a society for natural research. Was Open also absent this time? That would be no honour for the.

HAHNEMANN’S LETTER TO HERING OF OCTOBER 3rd,1836.

I have met here a number of so-called homoeopaths, who confidently give themselves this name, but who are and remain very little more than charlatans. But in the Provinces there are a large number of resident physicians who are took homoeopaths. The better school of Homoeopathy in Geneva, tried to persuade me to convert the physicians who reside her, by exhortations and polemic writings. I, however, have never liked very much this kind of to work and will probably never take to it. I decided instead to act in a different manner. I cured which they could not do-a number of influential people of very serious illnesses, and in this way attained a great reputation (which in all case is remarkable in a large city in such a short time_) but I also brought it about that th influential half-homoeopaths, who have heaped derision and abuse upon me, ceased their persecutions against me, and no longer hundred those who are honestly convinced from thoroughly studying our system. Every Monday evening I invite the better ones among them to meet in my salon, and discuss in a friendly manner all those important points in which they still need instruction. I now speak French fairly fluently, which was rather difficulty to learn because of my advanced years. All this annoyed and silenced the Royal Academy of Medicine, which shortly before my arrival had pronounced judgment and banished homoeopathy, in answer to a letter of M. Guizot, the Minister of Education, who had applied for the erection of hospitals and chairs at the Universities for Homoeopathy.

This old Society, consisting of so-called committee of allopathies, will only play a sad role in the history of medicine in times to come. Their members almost without exception are barbaric venesectors. They practice, teach and know nothing else but to venesect or apply leeches. Broussais false teaching has during the last twenty years made shameless murders of them, whilst Broussais himself is beginning to repudiate his own teaching and to incline to the whole system of medical prescriptions and he apothecaries here play a very insignificant part. The 1,300 french allopaths in this town give their patients in the place of medicine nothing but a solution of gum arabic, called eau de gomm, and prescribe a starvation treatment for them.

This will ultimately be of great advantage to homoeopathy.

Griesselich’s Controversy which spread considerably in Germany has already taken root here. We must attribute to this false teaching all that degrades the practice of the most difficult of all sciences, and encourages wantonness, freakishness and laziness which destroys the love of one’ fellow beings. This low distortion of our doctrine could not be avoided with superficial people of that type, because such thing shave a teat attraction for them. But the day deserve by dispensing them-parturient months nascetur ridiculous must (the mountains in labour brought forth a ridiculous mouse, or, much ado about nothing- R. H, z). Because the attested success, the actual curing to serious illnesses does not take place. I, therefore, have never worried about it. Loud talk and boasting promises may perhaps attract attention for a time and gain adherents (as in days past the art of making gold) but it is valueless to medical science. The public demand facts and that is just what Griesselich and his system cannot produce.

Hahnemann to Boenninghausen letter dictated):

Paris, 23rd October,1840 Does not the medical youth o your district desire to become happy and to make others happy? But here to such conversions are rare, may God have pity!…I have frequently experienced the same, so that Only trust those who with great zeal cling to me. If I do not notice an extraordinary desire for truth I discourage them by pointing our to them the great difficulties entailed in learning roughly and practicing our art. Many are deterred by it. But if they still remain firm in their intention then I give them a helping hand and all is well. They must also possess kindness of heart and if they have sufficient of that they will not be lacking in gratitude towards their teacher and the divine art.

When I shall have a safe opportunity through someone travelling, I wills need your good copper-etching of myself and something similar.

We both are well and happy, in spite of all the burden of work, and love one another like good children.

(Hahnemann’s signature is still firm and steady.) The “Leipsiger Allg. Ztg,” No.279 of October 6th, 1839, published an article from Paris, in which it said:

Although homoeopathy has made daily progress, especially since Hahnemann’s arrival, yet it is only in. quiet way through the cure of patients. Publicly it was declared to be dead by its numerous opponents. If anyone asked one of them about homoeopathy we could have be a hundred to one that the reply would be, “elle est mort”-it is dead-or, “on n’en parle plus”-one dies not speak of it any more- this was a very clever move. Before that the parole was different, for instance,” that is charlatanism” or, “it is diet that ode sit,” or, “it is faith that cures, ” etc. Later when they could no longer deny the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies, they asserted that those treated by homoeopathy all died from strokes or other sudden attacks. But none of these means answered because they made homoeopathy talked about. At last they arrived at their present parole, and this indeed proved to be much more effective than all the previous ones. The followers of homoeopathic were in that way obliged to take the offensive in order to show signs of life.

This was to take place by means of publications in the “Capital” (a forty fr. journal) which had a homoeopathic report every week in its supplement (paid at the rate of 12 fr. a line). The first appeared at the time under the title “Dr. Emmanuel Calandra,’ and announced the publication of a homoeopathic monthly periodical under the title of ‘propagateur de I, Homoeopathic monthly periodical under the title of ‘Propagator de I, Homoeopathic.” Then it was to open in Rue de la Harpe, no. 93, a homoeopathic school, with a homoeopathic dispensary, reading-room and correspondence office, etc.

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