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Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (/ ˈ h ɑː n ə m ə n / HAH-nə-mən, German: [ˈzaːmueːl ˈhaːnəman]; 10 April 1755 [1] – 2 July 1843) was a German physician, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy.
Homeopathy was created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann. [27] Hahnemann rejected the mainstream medicine of the late 18th century as irrational and inadvisable, because it was largely ineffective and often harmful. [28] [29] He advocated the use of single drugs at lower doses and promoted an immaterial, vitalistic view of how living organisms ...
Hahnemann, Samuel; Hering, Constantine; Matlack, Charles F.; North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing Art (1836). Organon of homoeopathic medicine (First American, from the British translation of the German fourth ed.).
The Hahnemann statue. The Samuel Hahnemann Monument is located on Reservation 64, a small triangular lot on the east side of Scott Circle between Corregidor Street, Massachusetts Avenue, and Rhode Island Avenue NW. [4] The monument faces west towards the traffic circle and the Brevet Lt. General Winfield Scott equestrian statue.
Hahnemann University Hospital was a tertiary care center in Center City Philadelphia.It was the teaching hospital of Drexel University College of Medicine. [2] Established in 1885, it was for most of its history the main teaching hospital associated with its namesake medical school, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, founded in 1848 and named for Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of ...
The founder of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann found that undiluted doses caused reactions, sometimes dangerous ones, so specified that preparations be given at the lowest possible dose. [4] To counter the reduced potency at high dilutions he formed the view that vigorous shaking by striking on an elastic surface – a process termed succussion ...
Fragmenta de viribus is a homeopathic reference book published in Leipzig in 1805.. The book was written by Samuel Hahnemann and published in Latin, in two volumes.The full title is Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum: positivis sive in sano corpore humano observatis (Fragmentary Observations relative to the Positive Powers of Medicines on the healthy Human Body).
In 1834, she visited Samuel Hahnemann, and the year after they married and moved to Paris, where they opened a clinic. She was his student and assistant and soon an independent homeopathist. She was given a diploma from Allentown Academy of The Homeopathic Healing Art, co-founded by John Helfrich (1795–1852) in Allentown, Pennsylvania.