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Christian Friedrich Samuel HAHNEMANN
(1755-1843, Germany, France)
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     Samuel Hahnemann is illustriousness founder of homoeopathy. This neglected scholar was born in Meissen, Saxony (now part of Germany), on 10th April 1755, be converted into an impoverished middle-class family as Frederick the Great's Seven Duration War.

He was taught reach read and write by both parents and credits his father confessor with instilling "good and worthy" ideas into his mind. Bankruptcy was taught early by realm father never to learn avidly but to question everything.

     Hahnemann follow his studies vigorously throughout wreath boyhood and became a talented linguist, proficient in German, Forthrightly, French, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Classical and Arabic.

Towards the at no cost of his teens he urbane an interest in the sciences and medicine in particular. Stylishness eventually trained as a dr., studying at Leipzig and Vienna before finally qualifying at Erlangen in 1779.

     In 1782, at position age of 27, Hahnemann wed Johanna Henriette Kuchler, the female child of an apothecary.

They sooner or later produced a family of 11 children - 9 daughters take up 2 sons. Hahnemann became trim Medical Doctor in 1781 dominant practiced conventional medicine. During illustriousness early years of the accessory he derived his income let alone a combination of medical work out and the translation of medicinal and scientific texts.

Once sediment practice, Hahnemann became disillusioned meet the medical practises of high-mindedness day.

     Over the first 10 lifetime of his practice Hahnemann resorted to treating patients as afar as possible by diet near exercise, using a minimum break into drugs and other harmful practises.

By 1790, he felt proscribed could no longer continue wide even do this and gave up his practice all-together. Household latter years he wrote: "My sense of duty would call for easily allow me to agreement the unknown pathological state lady my suffering brethren with these unknown medicines�The thought of apposite in this way a liquidator or malefactor towards the perk up of my fellow human beings was most terrible to hold, so terrible and disturbing guarantee I wholly gave up slump practice in the first life of my married life � and occupied myself solely seam chemistry and writing." (Haehl, Ninny 1992, Vol 1, p.64).

Also: "After the discovery of position weakness and misconceptions of return to health teachers and my books Hysterical sank into a state abide by morbid indignation, which might about have completely vitiated for highest the study of medical familiarity I was about to have confidence in that the whole science was of no avail and inadequate of improvement.

I gave man up to my own marked cognitions and determined to set no goal for my considerations until I should have dismounted at a decisive conclusion." (Dudgeon, 1993 Reprint, p. 410).

     For sundry time Hahnemann lived in fundamental poverty with his wife added children, earning a living cause the collapse of writing and translation alone.

Agreed is described by a neighbour of that period as keep with his family in neat as a pin single room divided by a- curtain, pursuing his own investigations by day and staying put out of misery every second night to hard work translation work to provide sustenance for his family. Hahnemann foremost stumbled across the phenomena think it over he was later to bellow the hom�opathic action of dope in the year that crystalclear gave up his practice.

Considering that translating A Treatise on authority Materia Medica by the Capital physician, William Cullen, he develop that the drug cinchona (china or quinine) was effective withdraw the treatment of malaria in that it was bitter and medication and had a toning discontinuation on the stomach. Hahnemann was not satisfied by this explanation for, if it were fair, then all bitter, astringent substances should likewise be effective grind the treatment of malaria, gift they were not.

     Hahnemann decided elect experiment with the effects take in cinchona upon himself and determined that the side-effects, or symptoms, that it produced in him were similar to the symptoms of malaria.

He subsequently guessed that the curative action advance the drug may lie pen the similarity of the symptoms of the malarial disease settle down the symptoms able to nominate produced by the drug. In this fashion the first homeopathic proving, tube the discovery of the crowning law of homeopathy: Similia similibus curentur, or "like cures like".

Hahnemann named this newfound treatment "Homeo" (similar) "pathy" (suffering).

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As a result, recognized began to test other narcotic of the day, such laugh belladonna, camphor, and aconitum, raise study the symptoms that they produced. On the results capacity these experiments, he began weather think seriously about a additional medical principle, the principle have a high regard for cure by similars but fillet methods were met with dubiety and ridicule by his contemporaries.  

     Although his patients were experiencing critical cures which solidly verified emperor theories, Hahnemann was marked variety an outcast because his way of single and minimum attack was threatening the financial support of the powerful apothecaries.

Hahnemann focused on reducing the draw to the point where thither were no side effects on the other hand he was unsatisfied because that step further rendered the quantity insufficient in strength to presentation. He experimented with a new-found method whereby after each dilution he would shake the amount vigorously.

This he called "succussion" thus developing the energetic image of homeopathy. It is nameless how Hahnemann reasoned this (still scientifically unexplainable) method of "potentization".   

     In 1810, Hahnemann published the pass with flying colours of six editions of Decency Organon which clearly defined culminate homeopathic philosophy.

In the total year, 80,000 men were glue when Napoleon attacked Liepzig. Hahnemann's homeopathic treatment of the survivors, and also of the casualties of the great typhus prevailing that followed the siege, was highly successful and further broad his, and homeopathy's, reputation. Hahnemann taught at the Liepzig Home where his lectures would habitually shift into sharp tongued diatribes against the dangerous practices discovery conventional medicine, thus nicknamed "Raging Hurricane" by his students.

Strong 1821 Hahnemann had proven 66 remedies and published his Materia Medica Pura in six volumes. In 1831, Cholera swept ravage Central Europe. Hahnemann published rolls museum on the homeopathic treatment livestock the disease and instigated probity first widespread usage of homoeopathy which had a 96% include rate as compared to allopathy's 41% rate.

     In 1834 Hahnemann decrease the avant-garde Parisian, Mademoiselle Marie Melanie d'Hervilly.

They were wedded (his second marriage, her first) within six months, and group in Paris. In spite invoke the fact he was go into detail than twice her age, they remained very intimate, she workings by his side in surmount active practice until July 2, 1843 when Hahnemann died, make happen Paris, at the age a selection of eighty-eight.