Who was Samuel Hahnemann?
Hahnemann was a medical reformer, a medical doctor who refused to practice a form a medicine he did not believe, a linguist who spoke 13 languages and earned is living as a translator, father of a new science who live to see his work taken up by the nobility of Scotland and become to toast of Paris in post Napoleonic France. Scientist, inventor, pharmacist, chemist, physician, father of new medicine, scientific revolutionary, student of chemistry, botany, physics, entomology astronomy, meteorology, geography. He was a pioneer- in mental diseases, in the use of a sterile field for surgery. Hahnemann studied medicine but was quickly discouraged; never practicing until he perceived what was to be healed. Instead of seeing patients, he earned a living by translating, continued to refine his vision and insight. When he finally discovered the simple fastest way to clear the blocks from the vital force of man, then, and only then, did he set out to administer the healing balm. Then he began t
It is rarely in the history of any art or science that there arises a figure of such gigantic stature, such prodigious achievement, of such strong character and creative force, who seems to have incorporated in his own life, all that his predecessors had for years, been blindly seeking after, and to give the inspiration and impetus to the efforts of his successors in generations to come. Such a man was the founder.. the Father of homeopathy, the immortal Hahnemann. Samuel Hahnemann continued the ‘vitalistic’ and emperical tradition of western medicine by the development of homeopathy. Its science and philosophy are directly derived from observation of the sick. He didn’t create any logical or self-evident mode of treatment depending instead on the individualized reduction of the patient’s state. Hahnemann defined homeopathy so well in his six editions of the Organon that little has changed today. Hahnemann was also a pioneer in that he saw the aberrant behavior’s of mental patients as
When I say that this great Reformer of Medicine was a regularly educated physician of great learn- ing and unusual general culture and literary attainments, I 13 speak but feeble praise compared with the language of Sir John Forbes, Hahnemann’s most learned critic, where he says : ” No candid reader of his writings can hesitate for a moment to admit that he was a very extraordinary man ; one, whose name will descend to posterity as the exclusive excogitator and founder of an original system of medicine, as ingenious as many that preceded it, and destined to be the remote, if not the immediate cause of more fundamental changes in the practice of the healing art, than have resulted from any promulgated since the days of GALEN himself.” And he adds : ” He was undoubtedly a man o f genius and a scholar, a man of indefatigable industry and of dauntless energy.” The great HALLER, says of him : ” He is a doublehead of philosophy and wisdom.” And HUFELAND, the father of orthodox medicine, spea
