Dr. Samuel Christian Fredric Hahnemann the originator of Homoeopathy was a German physician who was born in a humble home at Moisson in Germany on the night between the 9th and 10th April, 1755. His father was a porcelain painter, who was very methodical andinstructed Hahnemann into a very systematic worker. Dr. Hahnemann studied medicine at Leipsic and other medical institutions and became a thorough physician. He qualified for Doctorate of Medicine from Enlangen University in Germany at the age of twenty four in 1779 and the subject of his thesis was "AETIOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS OF SPASMODIC EFFECTIONS".He was interested in many subjects for example Chemistry, Pharmacology, Mineralogy, Botany and Pharmacy. He was interested in literature and languages. He knew German, English, Hebrew, Latin, French, Italian, Arabic etc. He was was devoted to medicine so much that he used to translate books of different languages of medicine and allied subjects into German.
Dr. Hahnemann was a very kind-hearted, sincere and systematic worker. He was a man of character, a great lover of truth, a great believer in the mercy of God, very sympathetic to his fellowmen and specially to the sick persons.He was a very keen observer, would not bekieve any body or authority unless he would verify their ideas by experimental verifications. All these qualities of head and heart made him such a great man that even now he has got a great following and millions of physicians appreciate his ideas and method of treatment i.e. Hemoeopathy.
Dr. Hahnemann was married to a fair German Maiden Miss Heuietta Kuchler in 1782. His first daughter Haurietta was born in 1784. Afterwards he had one son and four daughers. His first wife died in 1830. He married second time with Melanie d'Harvilly, a French lady in January, 1835 at the age of 80 years and lived for 8 more years and died on 2nd July, 1843.
Dr. Hahnemann has contributed a vast literature on various subjects on beginning but during later part of his life he was completely devoted to the development of Homoeopathy.The first edition of the Organon of Rational Medicine was published in 1810, 2nd Edition in 1819, 3rd Edition in 1824, 4th Edition in 1829, 5th Edition in 1833 and 6th Edition in 1842 but he could not get the last Edition published. The sixth Edition was however published in the year 1921.
A few of his other works are:
Dr. Hahnemann was a very kind-hearted, sincere and systematic worker. He was a man of character, a great lover of truth, a great believer in the mercy of God, very sympathetic to his fellowmen and specially to the sick persons.He was a very keen observer, would not bekieve any body or authority unless he would verify their ideas by experimental verifications. All these qualities of head and heart made him such a great man that even now he has got a great following and millions of physicians appreciate his ideas and method of treatment i.e. Hemoeopathy.
Dr. Hahnemann was married to a fair German Maiden Miss Heuietta Kuchler in 1782. His first daughter Haurietta was born in 1784. Afterwards he had one son and four daughers. His first wife died in 1830. He married second time with Melanie d'Harvilly, a French lady in January, 1835 at the age of 80 years and lived for 8 more years and died on 2nd July, 1843.
A few of his other works are:
- Translation of Cullen's Materia Medica (1790).
- Friends of Health in 1800.
- Pharmaceutical Lexicon (1800).
- New Principle for Ascertaining Remedial Power of Medical Substances (1801).
- Fragmenta-de-Viribus Medicamentum in 1805.
- Proving of 50 drugs (1811).
- Treatment of Typhus (1814).
- Chronic Diseases: their peculiar nature and treatment from 1816 to 1828. He practised at various places as he got great opposition from his brother physicians and was unsettled throughout his life. He settled at Konig Slutter from 1795 to 1799. Afterwards he left for Leipsic and remaineed there between 1810 to 1824. Then he changed his clinic to Coethen and practised medicine from 1821 ti 1835. After his second marriage with the French wife he left Germany and settled at Paris.
- He attained great achievements by his new system of treatment and was greatly appreciated by the public and rich people of Germany. He accepted the post of Fredriok of Anhlt, Coethen and was given the title of Hafrath Counsellor of Court of the Grand Duke of Coethen in 1822. He had also the privilege of treating mental cases in a Mental Asylum for the Insane at Georgenthal in 1792.
- During the last years of his life many physicians from America, England, France, Italy and other places of Europe used to take lessons from his on the new art of treatment i.e. Hemoeopathy. He got world wide reputation for his brilliant cures and the sick persons from all over Europe, England and America used to come and stay with him for treatment.
- A Scotsman who met him during the last years of his life described him thus "His face had luminous expression and looked like a heavenly being, for there was some thing divine in his presence".
