Among his literary labors was the translation of foreign medical works
into German, and it was through that activity that Hahnemann arrived at his
interpretation of nature�s way of healing. During his first year of work as a
translator, in 1790, he encountered a passage in a text authored by a celebrated
Scottish physician that addressed the action of the drug cinchona. The dried
bark of a South American tree of the madder family, cinchona contains quinine
and had been used in Europe since the mid-1600s to treat malaria and other
fevers. As one of the handful of drugs with unquestioned therapeutic value,
cinchona was a substance of more than ordinary interest to doctors, and Hahnemann
into German, and it was through that activity that Hahnemann arrived at his
interpretation of nature�s way of healing. During his first year of work as a
translator, in 1790, he encountered a passage in a text authored by a celebrated
Scottish physician that addressed the action of the drug cinchona. The dried
bark of a South American tree of the madder family, cinchona contains quinine
and had been used in Europe since the mid-1600s to treat malaria and other
fevers. As one of the handful of drugs with unquestioned therapeutic value,
cinchona was a substance of more than ordinary interest to doctors, and Hahnemann
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