THE DISCOVERER

Doctor Samuel Hahnemann was born on the 10th April 1755 in Germany. The reformer was son of Christian Gattfried Hahnemann and Johana Christiana. He was a brilliant student and frequent in many languages.  He acquired his M.D degree from Erlangen University in the year 1719 and practiced Allopathic medicines.

                                                   In the year 1790 whilst translating Cullen's materia medica therapeutics, he found the indications of Peruvian bark(Cinchona Officinalis), that is bitter in taste and cures intermittent fever. Dr. Hahnemann was dissatisfied with this explanation and by way of experiment, he took the medicine himself. He took the medicine repeatedly in excess. Eventually he noticed symptoms very similar to ague of malarial fever. This effect the Cinchona bark  produced  on him, gave birth to the idea of Homoeopathy.This unexpected result set up in his mind a new train of thought and he conducted similar experiments on himself and other individuals with other medicines whose curative action in certain diseases have been well established. He further noticed that no two substances produced exactly the same set of symptoms. 

                                                                                         On the basis of such successive experiments Dr Hahnemann came up to conclusion that medicines cure diseases because they can produce similar diseases in healthy individuals. Finally in the year 1796 the discovery was brought to light and he put forward his doctrine "Similia similibus  curentur" which means "let the like be cured by like" After this he wrote the books "Organon of medicine" and "Materia medica pura"in which he described the whole system of the Homoeopathy. He came up with a system which is helpful to the human being. This is the greatest job one can do in his entire life.

                                                                    The father of Homoeopathy died in Paris on 2nd July 1843. Such people never die. They remain alive even after death. I offer my heartiest gratitude to him. I could not have lived my life without Homoeopathy. The injury in my feet had jeopardised  my life. Only Homoeopathy could rescue me.

                                              Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)

He is immortal and will remain so. Long live the name of Hahnemann.