The system’s founder, the German Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843; Fig.
3-1), got his start as a regular MD, obtaining the degree at Erlangen in 1779.
Afterward, he practiced in a succession of small towns in Germany but steadily
lost confidence in the efficacy of the treatments he had been taught to provide.
“I sank into a state of sorrowful indignation,” he related, after coming to
realize “the weakness and errors of my teachers and books.” Medicine, he
decided, was “founded upon perhapses and blind chance,” its professed remedies
nothing but “Pferdecuren [horse cures]
3-1), got his start as a regular MD, obtaining the degree at Erlangen in 1779.
Afterward, he practiced in a succession of small towns in Germany but steadily
lost confidence in the efficacy of the treatments he had been taught to provide.
“I sank into a state of sorrowful indignation,” he related, after coming to
realize “the weakness and errors of my teachers and books.” Medicine, he
decided, was “founded upon perhapses and blind chance,” its professed remedies
nothing but “Pferdecuren [horse cures]
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