Less Is More: Samuel Hahnemann, Physician, Chemist, Translator, and the Founder of Homeopathy

TCE

The Chemical Educator

ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)

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Abstract Volume 24 (2019) pp 123-125

Less Is More: Samuel Hahnemann, Physician, Chemist, Translator, and the Founder of Homeopathy

George B. Kauffman*

Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740-8034, georgek@mail.fresnostate.edu

Published: 3 October 2019

Abstract. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), chemist, translator, and physician is best known as the creator of the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine known as homeopathy. Hahnemann first published an article on his homeopathic approach in a German medical journal in 1796. After additional essays, in 1810 he published “Organon of the Rational Art of Healing,” followed over the years by four more editions titled “The Organon of the Healing Art,” the first systematic treatise containing all his detailed instructions on homeopathy.

Key Words: Chemistry and History; Chemistry; Homeopathy; Alternative Medicine; Pseudoscience; Materia Medica; Organon; Bloodletting; Purging; Like Cures Like; Serial Dilution; Succussion (Vigorous Shaking); Miasms

(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: georgek@mail.fresnostate.edu )

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