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]

Samuel Hahnemann - Life - Part 2

Hahnemann tested substances for the effect they produced on a healthy individual and tried to deduce from this the ills they would heal.^{[citation needed]} From his research, he initially concluded that ingesting substances to produce noticeable changes in the organism resulted in toxic effects.^{[citation needed]} He then attempted to mitigate this problem^{[citation needed]} through exploring dilutions of the compounds he was testing. He claimed that these dilutions, when done according to his technique of succussion (systematic mixing through vigorous shaking) and potentization, were still effective in producing symptoms.^{[citation needed]}However, these effects have never been duplicated in clinical trials,^{[citation needed]}and his approach has been universally abandoned by modern medicine.^{[citation needed]}

Hahnemann began practicing this new technique, which soon attracted other doctors c.1792. He first published an article about the homeopathic approach in a German language medical journal in 1796; in 1810, he wrote his Organon of the Medical Art, the first systematic treatise on the subject.

In the Spring of 1811^[10] Hahnemann moved his family back to Leipzig with the intention of teaching his new medical system at the University of Leipzig. In accordance with the university statutes, he became a faculty member by submitting and defending a thesis on a medical topic of his choice: On 26 June 1812, Hahnemann presented a Latin thesis, entitled "A Medical Historical Dissertation on the Helleborism of the Ancients."^[11]

Hahnemann continued practicing and researching homeopathy, as well as writing and lecturing for the rest of his life. He died in 1843 in Paris, 88 years of age, and is entombed in a mausoleum at Paris's Père Lachaise cemetery.