Samuel Hahnemann - Other Work

Hahnemann published numerous tracts on chemistry and general medicine before he stumbled upon the homeopathic method. His notable works on Homeopathy include:

• Essay on a New Principle for Ascertaining the Curative Powers of Drugs 1796)^[12]
• Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum positivis, a collection of 27 drug provings published in Latin in 1805.^[13][14]
• The Organon of the Healing Art (1810), a detailed delineation of what he saw as the rationale underpinning homeopathic medicine, and guidelines for practice. Hahnemann published the 5th edition in 1833; a revised draft of this (1842) was discovered after Hahnemann's death and finally published as the 6th edition in 1921.^{[15][16] [17] [18]}
• Materia Medica Pura is a compilation of homoeopathic proving reports, published in six volumes between vol. I in 1811 and vol. VI in 1827. Revised editions of volumes I and II were published in 1830 and 1833, respectively.^[19]
• Chronic Diseases (1828) is an elucidation of the root and cure of chronic disease, according to the theory of miasms, together with a compilation of homoeopathic proving reports, published in five volumes during the 1830s.
• Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann which were gathered by Dudgeon.

Hahnemann "recommended the use of fresh air, bed rest, proper diet, sunshine, public hygiene and numerous other beneficial measures at a time when many other physicians considered them of no value."^[20][21] Hahnemann was also campaigned for the humane treatment of the insane in 1792.^[22] Additionally, he discovered a common test for arsenic.

Hahnemann also published tracts in which he described the cause of cholera as "excessively minute, invisible, living creatures".^[23]