26 Facts About Samuel Hahnemann

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

Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was born in Meissen, Saxony, near Dresden.

Samuel Hahnemann's father Christian Gottfried Hahnemann was a painter and designer of porcelain, for which the town of Meissen is famous.

Samuel Hahnemann eventually made a living as a translator and teacher of languages, gaining further proficiency in "Arabic, Syriac, Chaldaic and Hebrew".

In 1781, Samuel Hahnemann took a village doctor's position in the copper-mining area of Mansfeld, Saxony.

Samuel Hahnemann soon married Johanna Henriette Kuchler and would eventually have eleven children.

Samuel Hahnemann travelled around Saxony for many years, staying in many different towns and villages for varying lengths of time, never living far from the River Elbe and settling at different times in Dresden, Torgau, Leipzig and Kothen before finally moving to Paris in June 1835.

Samuel Hahnemann was dissatisfied with the state of medicine in his time, and particularly objected to practices such as bloodletting.

Samuel Hahnemann claimed that the medicine he had been taught to practice sometimes did the patient more harm than good:.

Samuel Hahnemann believed that other astringent substances are not effective against malaria and began to research cinchona's effect on the human body by self-application.

Samuel Hahnemann first used the term homeopathy in his essay Indications of the Homeopathic Employment of Medicines in Ordinary Practice, published in Hufeland's Journal in 1807.

Samuel Hahnemann's researches led him to agree with von Storck that the toxic effects of ingested substances are often broadly parallel to certain disease states, and his exploration of historical cases of poisoning in the medical literature further implied a more generalised medicinal "law of similars".

Samuel Hahnemann later devised methods of diluting the drugs he was testing in order to mitigate their toxic effects.

Samuel Hahnemann claimed that these dilutions, when prepared according to his technique of "potentization" using dilution and succussion, were still effective in alleviating the same symptoms in the sick.

Samuel Hahnemann first published an article about the homeopathic approach in a German-language medical journal in 1796.

Around the start of the nineteenth century Samuel Hahnemann developed a theory, propounded in his 1803 essay On the Effects of Coffee from Original Observations, that many diseases are caused by coffee.

Samuel Hahnemann later abandoned the coffee theory in favour of the theory that disease is caused by Psora, but it has been noted that the list of conditions Samuel Hahnemann attributed to coffee was similar to his list of conditions caused by Psora.

In early 1811 Samuel Hahnemann moved his family back to Leipzig with the intention of teaching his new medical system at the University of Leipzig.

Samuel Hahnemann continued practicing and researching homeopathy, as well as writing and lecturing for the rest of his life.

Samuel Hahnemann died in 1843 in Paris, at 88 years of age, and is entombed in a mausoleum at Paris's Pere Lachaise Cemetery.

Samuel Hahnemann retired to the Isle of Wight and died there at the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

Dr Leopold Suss-Samuel Hahnemann's youngest daughter, Amalia, had two children, Winifred was born on in 1898 and and Herbert.

Samuel Hahnemann served as a Major in the British Army during World War II, and then had a career in the city of London.

Samuel Hahnemann was at one point appointed as a Freeman of the City of London.

Mr William Herbert Tankard-Hahnemann, the great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Hahnemann died on 12 January 2009 after 22 years of active patronage of the British Institute of Homeopathy.

Samuel Hahnemann wrote a number of books, essays, and letters on the homeopathic method, chemistry, and general medicine:.