Hahnemann

For every kind of poisonous exhalation there is in all probability a particular antidote, only we do not always know enough about the latter. It is well known that the air of our atmosphere contains two-thirds of a gas that is immediately fatal to man and beast, and extinguishes flame. Mixed up along with it …

The friend of health (Hahnemann, 1791) – Part i – Protection against infection in epidemic diseases Read More »

A receipt has been given to the world, which proved so efficacious in Dünaburg in the Asiatic cholera, that of ten patients but one died. The chief ingredient is camphor, which is in ten times the proportion of the other ingredients. But not a tenth-nay, not one in a hundred of the patients would have …

Cause and prevention of the Asiatic cholera – Hahnemann, 1831 Read More »

Two opinions, exactly opposed to each other prevail on this subject. One party considers the pestilence as only epidemic, of atmospheric-telluric nature, just as though it were merely spread through the air, from which there would in that case be no protection. The other party denies this, and holds it to be communicable by contagion …

The mode of propagation of the asiatic cholera – Hahnemann, 1831 Read More »

The malignant scarlet-fever that has prevailed in Germany for eight years and proved fatal to many thousands of children and older persons, often so unexpectedly, so rapidly, and with symptoms never before heard of under such circumstances, this murderous disease, termed scarlet-fever by almost every one, is really anything but scarlet-fever; it is a new …

Observations on the scarlet-fever (Hahnemann, 1808) Read More »

(published as a pamphlet by Hahnemann in 1801) Preface Had I compiled a large book upon scarlet fever, I should have obtained, through the usual channels of publication, at least as much in the way of honorarium as by the subscription for this little book. But as, according to Callimachus, a great book is a …

Cure and prevention of scarlet fever Read More »