Dr. S. Jagatha, a well-known Homoeopathic Lady Physician, gained her glorious name in treating infertility cases. She has authored many articles in Scientific Journals and Public Magazines. She is a successful lecturer, lectures at various Homoeopathic Medical Colleges, had presented scientific papers in seminars. Here she presents excerpts from Luc de Schepper’s book, “Hahnemann Revisited”.

     Hahnemann published many works on chemistry after graduation; the works on treatise on arsenic poisoning and on syphilis. Hahnemann criticized strongly against bloodletting.

Discovery of Homoeopathy
     In 1790, Hahnemann had a remarkable insight at the age of 46 while translating Cullen’s Materia Medica.Cullen attributed the antimalarial properties of Cinchona bark to its bitterness, but Hahnemann knew that other bitter herbs are not active against malaria. He began a practice which he would continue throughout his life and which demonstrated his great integrity and love of knowledge: he experimented on himself. He found that Cinchona bark could induce in him, a healthy person, and the same symptoms it would cure in the sick person. This discovery led to the first law of homeopathy: the Law of Similars, or “Like Cures Like.”

Inception on Dynamisation
     In 1800 a scarlet fever epidemic gave Hahnemann the opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of the new type of medicine he was researching, based not only on the Law of Similars but also on the concept of highly diluted, potentized doses. Hahnemann created a sensation when he successfully used Belladonna in homeopathic doses as a cure and preventive for the epidemic.

     In 1810 Hahnemann published the first edition of the Organon of the Healing Art, his most important work. This book laid out the foundations of his new approach to healing, including the Law of Similars, the principle of giving a single medicine, which had been potentized, and in the smallest possible dose, and only giving remedies, which had been proven on healthy people.

Provers Union
     In the next few years Hahnemann proved many remedies on himself and his family members, and from 1814 he expanded the group to include his closest friends and associates called the “Prover’s Union”. These provers were some of his earliest disciples like Gross, Stapf, Hartman, Rückert, Hornburg, Franz, Wislicenus, Teuthorn, Herrmann, and Langhammer.

      In 1813 when Hahnemann used homeopathy to treat an epidemic of typhus, which affected Napoleon’s soldiers after their invasion of Russia. Soon the epidemic spread to Germany, where Hahnemann cured the first stage with Bryonia and Rhus tox.

Concept on Miasms
     During this time Hahnemann developed the next stage of his understanding of chronic diseases, the concept of miasms. He published his discovery in 1828 in the first edition of Chronic Diseases. The concept was well received by Hahnemann’s supporters Stapf, Gross, Hering, and von Boenninghausen.

      In 1831 homeopathy triumphed again, this time the cholera epidemic, which spread westward from Russia, while allopathic medicine was helpless against the virulent disease. The remedies like-Camphor, Cuprum and Veratrum-used by Hahnemann are still among the top remedies used in a cholera epidemic today. Even Napoleon himself was treated successfully with homoeopathic remedy.

      In 1833 the first homoeopathic hospital was opened in Leipzig under the direction of Dr. Moritz Muller at Leipzig.

Ernest Staf

W. Gross

Hartmann

Ameke

Rummel

Ruckert

LM potency
     Melanie’s role in Hahnemann’s life is controversial but we can be grateful to Mélanie because it gave him the opportunity to experiment and perfect his LM method. Hahnemann had great fame and success in France and completed his “most complete and best method,” described in the sixth edition of the Organon. The manuscript was in the hands of his publisher when Hahnemann died in 1843, at the ripe old age of 88.

      Hahnemann suffered from the attacks of the orthodox medical establishment of his time, which used all the legal and political weapons at their disposal to stop him. The journals of his time printed scathing, even libelous, critiques. The criticisms he endured only stimulated him to perfect his system. But many letters found after his death revealed how much Hahnemann suffered from this undeserved and unceasing persecution.

      He wrote to his friend Dr. Stapf, “Be as sparing as possible with your praises. I do not like them, I feel that I am only an honest, straight forward man who does not more than his duty.”

      Millions of people owe the relief of their suffering to the greatest genius in medical history. This book is the exposition of his system. While it also draws from many of his greatest followers-Von Boenninghausen, Hering, Kent, Lippe and others-Hahnemann provided the foundation, the laws and principles, on which everything else is built.