biography
| name: |
Hahnemann, (Christian Friedrich) Samuel
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pronunciation:
[hahnuhman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1755–1843)
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| biography:
| Physician and founder of homeopathy, born in Meissen, E Germany. He studied at Leipzig, and for 10 years practised medicine. He observed that a medicine administered to a healthy person produced similar symptoms to those of the illness it was intended to cure, and developed his law of ‘similars’, around which he built his system of homeopathy. His methods caused him to be prosecuted wherever he tried to settle. In 1811 he published Reine Arzneimittellehre (Precept of Pure Drugs), a homeopathic drug catalogue. He taught again in Leipzig (1810–21), but was driven out, retired to Köthen, and in 1835 moved to Paris, where he pursued a very lucrative practice. |
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