Samuel Hahnemann
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Samuel Hahnemann (1755 - 1843, a long life at almost any time) was a German physician during the seventeenth and eighteenth century who is best known as the founder of Homeopathy. He was frustrated by the surgical procedure performed on patients at that time. Note at that time anaesthetic was not invented and many patients died due to pain and other reasons. The mainstream medicine at that time was different from modern day evidence-based medicine.
Being frustrated with the inefficiency of the physicians of the days, he founded Homoeopathy after reading an ancient text from where he drew the idea of like cures like. It is claimed that many patients who came to Hahnemann were cured. However, modern day scientists have explained this was because, unlike other physicians of the days, he did not "torture" his patients. This is why his patients did not die, not because of the efficiency of Homeopathic medicine.
Hahnemann is interred in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. [1]
- "In the other direction . . .. are the tombs of two contrasting doctors: that of Samuel Hahnemann , father of immunology, whose large rose granite monument and bust were erected by a grateful international following; and that of Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin who adopted the guillotine from an earlier Scottish device with the humanitarian aim of stopping more brutal kinds of executions. Before its use he had been a leading society doctor in Paris; after its initiation his practice fell apart." [2]
