The Saxon physician, writer and translator considered the founder of homeopathy. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, learned 1790, the “law of similars,” which are of course acting drugs in low concentrations used against the diseases that they cause in high doses. In numerous experiments, and as a practicing doctor Hahnemann further developed his discovery into a untreated doctrine of salvation, which he in his main work “Organon” summed up …
Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was born on 10 Born April 1755 in Meissen.
He grew up in poverty. A scholarship could go to the talented young high school. He was devoted to the writings of Hippocrates and other founders of the medical art. 1775 took Hahnemann studied medicine first in Leipzig, two years later he joined the University of Vienna. In 1779 he graduated from the studies with a doctorate in Erlangen. Hahnemann married in 1782, the pharmacist’s daughter Johanne Henriette Leopoldine Kuchler, with who had eleven children. His wife died in 1830.
In the years 1785 to 1789, Hahnemann was employed as a deputy to the town physician in Dresden with the management of hospitals. 1789, left the family went to Leipzig. Hahnemann had been withdrawn from the practicing physician work, to devote himself entirely to writing and translating medical texts. In 1790 he learned with reading a medical book by a self-experiment with Peruvian bark, the “law of similars” as the operating opinion of untreated medicines that cause similar symptoms in healthy people, as articulated by the patient, where they have a remedial effect.
China to be used against the ague bark called the self-test in healthy Hahnemann same symptoms of malaria out. The experiment is considered the birth of homeopathy, whose opinion of “similia similibus curentur” (“similar suffering can be cured by similar means”) Hahnemann but only with repeated experiments and observations published in 1796. Accordingly, the homeopathic medicines at low concentration is used against the diseases that would cause the agent in high doses. Subsequently, he started practicing as a doctor again to renovate the new method.
Hahnemann made this discovery, that the curative effect of the drug in an inverse ratio to their dilution, which he had developed another fundamental opinion of homeopathy. 1801 Hahnemann was written by his “remedial and prevention of scarlet fever ‘attention. Other writings as his major work “Organon of rational medicine ‘(1810) and the publication” Materia Medica Pura “(1811) followed. Although Hahnemann saw with his new cures for serious discontent in the scholarly world of medicine, he could work in the years 1811 to 1821 as professor of pharmacology at the University of Leipzig.
At the invitation of Prince Ferdinand of Anhalt-1821 the family matured down in Köthen, where Hahnemann lived until 1835 and others the publication “The chronic diseases” (1928) published. With the death of his first wife (1830) Hahnemann married at the beginning of 1835 Melanie d’Hervilly, with whom he matured in Paris. In the French hub, opened the practitioner a thriving practice. In the years 1841 to 1843 Hahnemann wrote the sixth and final edition of the “Organon”, which was with the LM-Potenzenan only published posthumously and is today considered a standard work of early homeopathy.
Samuel Hahnemann died on 2 July 1843 in Paris.
