Samuel Hahnemann: Medical Maverick.


One of the most controversial, yet most influential physicians in medical history, Samuel Hahnemann offered a whole new approach to treatment at a time when interventions were drastic, invasive and, at best, harmful. Hahnemann focused on a gentle approach of individually tailored treatments that rely upon the body's own natural powers of healing. It was his method of treatment that developed into homeopathy, which is now used all over the world.

Hahnemann's new style of treatment challenged fundamental principles in medicine during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He helped to draw the focus of medical treatment from intervention toward a more patient based, rather than a medicine based approach.

Throughout his life, typical medical treatments included blood letting and purging, while at the same time the body was being poisoned with drugs like mercury. There was no such thing as clinical trial research and traditions of medical intervention seemed to be much more important than observation.

Unhappy with medical interventions, Hahnemann renounced medicine for a period of time before returning with his ideas derived from observation, experiment and logic

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