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...pious German physician named Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann tried to find out why quinine cured the chills and jitters of malaria. He swallowed several strong doses of quinine and was promptly seized with paroxysms very like malaria's. He tried quinine on his wife, son and four daughters: same results. Dr. Hahnemann decided that quinine cured malaria because it produced in the body a "counterfeit disease" with the same symptoms...
...persons; he tried it on scarlet fever and it drove away the disease. Nux vomica paralyzed the chest muscles; he fed his patients tiny doses to check asthma. Arnica, which in overdoses brought on belly aches, he used in small doses to cure diarrhea. After "proving" scores of drugs, Hahnemann broadcast his famed principle of homeopathy (Greek, homoios, like, and pathos, disease): Similia similibus curentur. (Like should be cured by like.) In Hahnemann's day, doctors used remedies which were often more painful, some times more harmful, than the disease itself: drastic bloodletting for fevers, enormous doses of laudanum...
...aura of quackery surrounded homeopathy until some 20 years ago, when Founder Hahnemann was given his historic due by no less a personage than Sir William Osler. "No individual," said...
Osler, "has done more good to the medical profession than Samuel Hahnemann...
...blood of healthy persons might perhaps form crystals as different as those of coffee and tea. After trying some 23 substances, he hit on copper chloride as blood's best crystallizing agent. Last week Dr. Pfeiffer and his colleague, Dr. George Miley of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, described their new test for the presence of early cancer...