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The founder of homeopathy is Dr Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahenmann was born 10 th April 1755 and died on 2nd July 1843, a qualified allopathic physician from Germany.
Being an Allopathic physician he knew about the limited roles of traditional medicines in those days for chronic cases like – Lich application etc.
To counter those limitation he was interested to find a simple way of medicine administration which won't harm the patients as well as will remove the disease in whole extent.
Samuel Hahnemann was greatly influenced by the Viennese School and acquainted with the theories of modernist physicians, a young German medical student, who synthesized the approaches of his teachers regarding the properties of drug substances
He was well versed in seven languages and used to translate medical books in all these languages.
He set up a new pharmacopoeia that quickly developed into a new therapeutic method, which in 1808 he would name “homeopathy”.
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t grew from the observation and pharmacological study of medicinal substances in the traditional pharmacopoeia, based on experimentation on healthy volunteers. The traditional pharmacopoeia was composed of plant, animal and mineral substances, known and relayed by experience. These medical substances were still called Simples. It was these substances that would be the origin of homeopathic medicines.
In 1796 he published the results of his work in an article, “Essay on a New Principle”, that described the principles of the homeopathic method. In 1810, he published a work ,”Organon of the Rational Art of Healing”, that set forth and developed the method , enriched the fundamental data on the approach to disease, and described the “principles of producing homeopathic medicine”.
People were then talking about the “New Medicine” in the sense of the new therapy.
