Samuel Hahnemann Quotes

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Similia similibus curantur [Likes are cured by likes].

Samuel Hahnemann

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Samuel Hahnemann

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

Samuel Hahnemann

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

Samuel Hahnemann

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

Samuel Hahnemann

There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.

Samuel Hahnemann

Samuel Hahnemann

Samuel Hahnemann

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Born: April 10, 1755

Died: July 2, 1843 (aged 88)

Bio: Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was a German physician, best known for creating the system of alternative medicine called homeopathy.

Known for:

The Organon of the Healing Art (1833)
Homeopathic Materia Medica
Organon of the Medical Art
The Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann

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