ESSAY ON A NEW PRINCIPLE FOR ASCERTAINTING THE CURATIVE POWERS OF DRUGS, WITH A FEW GLANCES AT THOSE HITHERTO EMPLOYED
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 …