Homoeopathy has always been praised as a wonderful science showing miraculous cures.
Today, 10th April, is the Red Letter Day celebrated every year on the occasion of birth anniversary of the Founder of Homoeopathy, Master Samuel Hahnemann.
This is the day when the whole world praises Homoeopathy and it’s whole fraternity.
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Let’s pledge to unite together and work for uplifting Homoeopathy as well as fight against all sorts of criticism, hoping that it flourishes more in the future….
Important events of Master Hahnemann’s life:
◼Birth place – Meissen in Germany
◼Grand father – Cristoph Hahnemann
◼Father – Christian Gottfried Hahnemann
◼Father published a book on water color painting
◼Father’s first wife – Johanne Eleonore Deerens
◼Hahnemann’s Mother – Johanna Christiane Speissen
◼Hahnemann’s birth house – Corner House (Eckhaus) at Meissen
◼Hahnemann – third child of his mother and Gottfried Hahnemann
◼Birth date – 10th /11th April 1755 (midnight of 10th April 1755)
◼Baptized into Lutheran faith 3days after birth.
◼Hahnemann got his primary education from his parents
◼Schools – Latin Town School & Princesses School at Meissen.
◼Essay prepared on leaving Princess school – “The Wonderful Construction of Human Hand”
◼Medical study – at Leipzig University (1775)
◼Clinical practice – at Vienna at “Brothers of Mercy Hospital” – Dr. Von Quarin was his favorite guide there.
◼Hahnemann then worked as the family physician and librarian of Mr. Brukenthal (Governor of Transylvania)
◼Hahnemann got his M.D degree from Erlangen
◼M.D thesis – “A Summary of the Conditions of Cramp According to Cause and Cure”
◼Hahnemann began his practice at – Hettstedt
◼First marriage – 17th November 1782 – Henriette Kuchler adopted daughter of Mr. Haseler (apothecary)
◼Hahnemann fondly called his wife – Alice
◼1790 – Translation of Cullen’s Materia Medica (2 vols)
◼First mental patient treated by Hahnemann – Klockenbring Nursing home for mental patients was started at – Gotha.
◼Works of Hahnemann known as the foundations of Homoeopathy – “Essay on New Principle for the Curative Powers of Drugs and Some Examination of the Previous Principles” and “ Are the Obstacles to the Attainment of Simplicity and Certainty in Practical Medicine Insurmountable”Hahnemann’s preventive for scarlet fever – Belladonna(1801)
◼50th year since the conferment of M.D to Hahnemann – 10th August 1929 – Lesser Writing was published.
◼Second marriage – 32 year old Madame Melanie D’Hervilly – 18th January 1835
◼Hahnemann died on 2nd July 1843 at 5 a.m
◼First buried in Montmartre cemetery of Paris
◼Reburied at – Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
Today, we have a great reason to celebrate the birthday of a famous chemist, linguist, doctor and homeopath.
His achievements in medicine are numerous:
He built a bridge to modern medicine by condemning such medieval practices as bloodletting.
He hypothesised that cholera could have its origin in the transmission of microorganisms too small to see with the naked eye.
He is one of the first rational hygienists in the history of modern medicine.
He was in the forefront of pointing out ‘the importance of clear definitions and an unambiguous nomenclature’ in the field of therapeutic agents.
He stressed the need ‘to define and differentiate cases of illness on an exact a basis as possible, and whilst doing so not to let himself be influenced by speculation regarding their cause, or by school dogmas or superstition’.
He insisted on prescribing one medication at the time to assess rationally what effect it has.
He was one of the first physicians to criticise the common sources of medications such as the Doctrine of Signature.
He introduced clinical trials to assess the properties of therapeutic agents.
With homeopathy, he introduced a true rational healing system based on clear principles.
With homeopathy, he put medicine for the first time on the solid foundations of observation and experiment. (on healthy human beings)
In the hands of Hahnemann homeopathy became a truly inductive method, which rejected all speculation, avoided theorising and attempted to make the practice of medicine comprehensible and reproducible.
Hahnemann was way ahead of his time, and still is when it comes to the need of prescribing medications for the whole of the patient and in doses which are not toxic.
