Hahnemann

Christian Fried rich Samuel, the founder of Homeopathy; born in Mei en, Saxony, April 10, 1755. After graduating at the University of Erlangen, he practised medicine and held several public appointments in Dresden and elsewhere, and then settled in a small village near Leipsic. His observation and practice had conviticed him, not only of the usele ne , but also of the injurious character of the prevailing methods of treatment, and he now abandoned all practice and devoted himself to chemical research and the translation into German of foreign scientific books. In these investigations he occupied 6 years. They proved to him that, in all instances the medicine which had cured produced a very similar condition in healthy persons to that it had _ relieved. ‘This conclusion he | mem in an ~~ in “ Hufeland’s Journal,” in 1796. It is in this e ay that the ’ principle of similia similibus curantur (similar things are cured by similar things) is first put forward by him, not as a theory but as a fact. His views at once met with vehement opposition. The very small doses of medicine which alone were needed according to his method, be the apothecaries, who refused to dispense: his prescriptions, and he accordingly gave his medicines to his patients without charge. At Leipsic he remained till 1821, when a succe ful he by the apothecaries drove im from the city. Under the protection of the Duke of Anhalt-Kothen he retired to Kothen, where he became a center of attraction to numerous invalids in all parts of the world. His wife dying in 1831, in 1835 he married a French lady, who induced him to remove to Paris, where he resided and practised till his death, July 2, 1848. <A statue of him was erected in Leipsic in 1851.