1796 Samuel Hahnemann At the commencement of this century, the unmerited honour was conferred on chemistry, more especially by the Academy of Sciences of Paris, of tempting it to come forward as the discoverer of the medicinal virtues of drugs, particularly of plants. This folly, which was, with divers variations, perpetrated for nearly half a …
WWHD (What would Hahnemann do? Faced with our current COVID-19 pandemic, it feels reasonable to ask, What would Hahnemann do? Of course, he’s not around to ask; Let me break this down into 3 categories: Homeopathic treatment & homeoprophylaxis; it seems obvious that, were he around today, he’s be curious about investigating the individual & …
Chapter XI Symptomatology The Homœopathic Materia Medica. – The Materia Medica of Hahnemann is an enduring monument to the genius of its author, original in its conception and design and unique in its form and contents. Its foundation is on the bedrock of natural law. It is constructed of the cut stones of accurately …
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Are the obstacles to certainty and simplicity in practical medicine insurmountable? 1 Dr. Herz’s essay “On the Medicinal uses of the Phellandrium aquaticum,” andc., in the first part of the second volume of the Journal der practischen Arzneykunde, plunged me into a sort of melancholy, which only by dint of long continued reflection has given …
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Translated from the Allg. hom. Zeit., Vol 67, pp. 113-165 The Physician’s Record is without doubt a subject which deserves for many reasons and in many respects to be seriously considered and discussed. That it is indispensable to every true Homoeopathic physician follows undeniably from the necessity of individualizing all the characteristic symptoms in every …
A Contribution to the Judgement Concerning The Characteristic Value of Symptoms (Boenninghausen, 1858) It is now over three years since the great Homoeopathic Congress was held in Brussels, Germany being, I am sorry to say, but little represented. In the last session of this meeting after several propositions had been read, my resolution was adopted …
Dr. Kent, Dr. Gibson Miller, and others, can tell you, from long years of successful work and experience, how to do it. I feel that I am equally well qualified, from some years of poor prescribing and much failure, to tell you how not to do it. I used to get brilliant flashes of light …
The medicine of experience – Samuel Hahnemann, 1805 Often considered to be the “precursor” to the first edition of the Organon Man, regarded as an animal, has been created more helpless than all other animals. He has no congenital weapons for his defence like the bull, no speed to enable him to flee from his …