An Introduction: A Medical Innovator.


Of all the controversial and remarkable people of history, Samuel Hahnemann is one of them. While the medical practices of his time were rough, aggressive and at times caused more harm than good, Hahnemann came up with a whole new system of medicine which was focused around caring, individualism and enabling the body to cure itself. It was these concepts which form the basis of Homeopathy which is still practiced in many areas today.

His ideas however did not revolve around just new remedies; instead they sought to question the existing philosophy of medicine in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He proposed to change medical care from the current focus on aggressions to being more patient-oriented which is still important today.

In the age of blood letting, purging and harmful drugs such as mercury, medical treatments not only failed to cure, but in some instances, weakened the patients further and there was a definite lack of any standards to medicine in this period with remedies being based upon tradition rather than evidence based observations. It was within these confines of 18th century medical thought that Hahnemann began to challenge the prevailing concepts.

The system that he developed was one of observation, experimentation and reasoning. His principles consisted of the doctrine of likes cures likes (similia similibus curentur), individualization of treatment and the principle of using very small doses and monitoring patient responses to the medicine used.

Though the methods he proposed may be debated by some, there is little doubt of his contribution to the development of the practice of medicine that he so significantly affected and continues to impact upon the development of modern medicine today.

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