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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