Karl Julius
Aegidi was born on May 14, 1795, at Kiauten in East Prussia. Not much
is known about him until he was already a doctor: an allopathic district
physician working first in Johannesburg and then at Tilsit.It was because
of an illness that no allopathic practices seemed to be able to lift,
but which Hahnemann was able to cure in a relatively short time, that
made Aegidi turn to Homoeopathy.
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He was thrown from his carriage and incurred a severe contusion
on the left shoulder while he was on an official Journey. The most distressing
of his symptoms were removed by local bloodletting and the usual antichloristic
treatment. But a weakness and heaviness of the left upper arm remained.
He began to grow thin with severe local pains, whilst his shoulder and
elbow joints became swollen.
After trying every possible allopathic medicine he tried
Hahnemann's nine powders, which were to be taken in fifty days. It was
because of an illness that no allopathic practices seemed to be able
to lift, but which Hahnemann was able to cure in a relatively short
time, that made Aegidi turn to homoeopathy.
Karl Aegidi was Physician to Princess Fredericka of Prussia.
He proposed to Hahnemann that : “administer a mixture of two highly
potentized remedies, each corresponding to different parts of the disease.
In the potentized state the medicines thus mixed would be incapable
of chemical reaction but would each act separately in its own sphere”.
Hahnemann was persuaded that this would lead to polypharmacy and he
excluded it from the Organon.
Arthur Lutze seized upon the idea, and in his unauthorized
6th edition of the Organon suggested that Hahnemann favored polypharmacy.
Dr. Julius Aegidi died on May 11, 1874.
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Arthur Lutze opened a homeopathic hospital at Kothen, Germany in 1855. Both the hospital clinic and Hahnemann's home are now open to tourists. The city has become the National center of homeopathy, location of congresses and of the new European Homeopathic Library.
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Constantine Hering, the "Father" of American
Homeopathy, was born at the town of Oschatz , Germany. He studied
medicine at Leipzig University. He was the student-assistant of
Dr Robbi, an antagonist of homoeopathy. Robbi was approached by
a local publisher to write a book about the homoeopathic "heresy"
but referred the publisher to Hering because of his own lack of
time. Hering enthusiastically pursued this task, studying the writings
of Hahnemann, repeating provings, and undertaking other practical
experiments as part of his research. During this period, Hering
received a dissecting wound that became inflamed and infected. He
was advised to have his hand amputated but sought homoeopathic treatment
and recovered. As a result of the evidence from his own investigations,
Hering transferred his allegiance. But instead of writing the negative
review, he immediately quit the job and left the University to become
one of the most influential proponents of homeopathy of all time.
After graduation Hering declared himself to be a homoeopath.
Hering accidentally proved the remedy Lachesis while
he was triturating the Bushmasters venom in his home-laboratory
in Paramaribo. He was attempting to find an improved substitute
for the cowpox inoculation that Jenner was developing in Britain,
which Hering felt was extremely dangerous and very heavy-handed
for homeopathy. His interest and experience with snake venom led
him to surmise that the saliva of a rabid dog, or powdered smallpox
scabs, or any other disease products, viruses, or venom's, might
be prepared in the new Hahnemannian way to give a fail-safe method
of curing disease. Hering stayed in Paramaribo for six years then
emigrated to America and settled in Philadelphia in 1833.