appearance (toothlike shape, yellow color) but as a result of experimental
determinations of likeness. Experiment had uncovered the first example of a
drug producing symptoms similar to those it would cure (cinchona), and if
the law of similars was to be generalized so that the full range of human
afflictions could be treated naturally, many more drugs would have to be tested
to learn what symptoms they produced. Hahnemann soon began such tests on
fellow villagers, then advanced to administering drugs to people suffering with
symptoms that tests had shown the drug to produce and, he believed, curing
them. Within a few years he had developed his homeopathic method to the
point that he felt confident announcing it to the world (in a 1796 article) as a
new system of healing derived from a law “dictated to me by nature herself,”
the law that “when homoeopathically selected” a drug “will imperceptibly
create in the patient an artificial condition, bearing a very close resemblance
to that of the natural disease, and will speedily and permanently cure the
sufferer of his original complaints.”5
determinations of likeness. Experiment had uncovered the first example of a
drug producing symptoms similar to those it would cure (cinchona), and if
the law of similars was to be generalized so that the full range of human
afflictions could be treated naturally, many more drugs would have to be tested
to learn what symptoms they produced. Hahnemann soon began such tests on
fellow villagers, then advanced to administering drugs to people suffering with
symptoms that tests had shown the drug to produce and, he believed, curing
them. Within a few years he had developed his homeopathic method to the
point that he felt confident announcing it to the world (in a 1796 article) as a
new system of healing derived from a law “dictated to me by nature herself,”
the law that “when homoeopathically selected” a drug “will imperceptibly
create in the patient an artificial condition, bearing a very close resemblance
to that of the natural disease, and will speedily and permanently cure the
sufferer of his original complaints.”5
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