Herbert fritsche samuel hahnemann biography
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The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism 9781487512637
Table of contents :
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction HOMEOPATHY: A CHILD OF ITS TIME
1. The Law of Similars
2. The Law of the Single Remedy
3. The law of minimum
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Citation preview
THE BIRTH OF HOMEOPATHY OUT OF THE SPIRIT OF ROMANTICISM
Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann, who ardently proposed that “like cures like,” counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms. Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical practice of homeopathy within the Romantic culture in which it arose. In The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism, Kuzniar argues that Hahnemann was not an iconoclast and visionary, but rather a product of his time with links to his contemporaries such as Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt. It is the first book in English to exa
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Hom Opath: Samuel Hahnemann, Willmar Schwabe, Elias Altschul, Arthur Lutze, Paul Dahlke, Herbert Fritsche, Jost Walbaum
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