Legacy of Hahnemann – Lessons for Scholars and Educators

Legacy of Hahnemann – Lessons for Scholars and Educators.

STATE OF MEDICINE. To understand this man we have to move more than 250 years back. We must forget all bacteriology, anaesthetics, radiology, a good deal of our pathology 200 years ago when confronted with a patient, the first objective was to bleed the patient. Indeed, it was considered criminal negligence not to bleed a patient..

BIRTH. Born April 10, 1755 in Meissen, Electorate of Saxony, one of the most beautiful parts of Germany. “This may have contributed largely to my veneration of the beauties of Nature as I grew up to manhood.” - Hahnemann.

His father implanted the soundest ideas in his mind –.

1780 - 1785. These were the years of restless wandering to many different places. The young doctor found no profitable occupation to support him, and no social intercourse for his intellectual advancement. However, he richly contributed to the field of Chemistry, metallurgy and mining science during this period..

1785 - 1789. Hahnemann recognized more and more the complete insufficiency and unreliability of the science of medicine of his day. Hahnemann soon became dissatisfied with the medical system of his day and devoted his business in the translation of different works of chemistry, physics and medicine..

CULLEN’S MATERIA MEDICA. In Cullen's "Materia Medica“- In the question of the medicinal effect of Peruvian bark, Cullen defended the old opinion of the efficacy of this remedy through its "tonic effect on the stomach". Hahnemann attacked this opinion vigorously in his notes (Vol. II, page 108).

FIRST TASTE OF THE TRUTH - EXPERIMENTATION. I took, for several days, as an experiment, four drams of good china twice daily. To sum up: all those symptoms which to me are typical of intermittent fever, as the stupefaction of the senses, a kind of rigidity of all joints, but above all the numb, disagreeable sensation which seems to have its seat in the periosteum over all the bones of the body-all made their appearance..

How could he find the necessary concentration for his work?.

Search for the true art of healing. According to the testimony of all ages, no occupation is more unanimously declared to be a conjectural art than medicine; consequently none has less right to refuse a searching enquiry as to whether it is well founded than it, on which man's health, his most precious possession on earth, depends..

The results of my convictions are set forth in this book - Hahnemann.

EXPERIMENTATION. From 1790 to 1839, that is, in the course of about fifty years, he experimented with 99 drugs and recorded his observations of their actions on human body. This record, found in his "Fragmenta de Viribus Medicamentorum Positivis, " "Materia Medica Pura" and "Chronic Diseases" Is the largest, the most accurate and the most fertile of all investigations into medicinal action made by any single observer, before or since Hahnemann, throughout the annals of medical history..

Writings of Hahnemann. Materia Medica Treatment Protocol / Homoeopathic method of treatment guidelines Other Writings Compiled Fragmenta de viribus Organon of Medicine (all the 6 editions) Lesser writings Hahnemann’s Therapeutic Hints Materia Medica Pura Biographies – Bradford, Haehl, Cook, Gumpret, Hobhouse, Handley, Alder & Alder, David Little, Peter Morrell, Jutte etc The Chronic Diseases Cases Records.

Fundamentals. WORDS MEANING ACTION AUDE SAPERE DARE TO KNOW Constant inquiry is the way of knowledge KNOW THYSELF UNDERSTAND YOURSELF True knowledge of human wisdom SI NON JUVAT MODO NE NOCEAT IF YOU CANNOT DO GOOD DO NOT HARM Not harm the patient CITO, TUTO ET JUCUNDE TREAT QUICKLY, SAFELY AND PLEASENTLY Highest ideal of Cure VIS MEDICATRIX NATURAE NATURE’S HEALING POWER The organism heals in presence of right medicine selected by the Physician CESSAT EFFECTUS CESSAT CAUSA CEASE THE EFFECT THE CAUSE WILL CEASE Totality of symptoms NUNQUAM PARS PRO TOTO NEVER THE PART BUT ALWAYS THE WHOLE Individualization.

SAMUEL HAHNEMANN. That in an art whose aim is the saving of life, negligence in learning is a crime..

CURE THE SICK. All who call themselves physicians should at length cease to deceive suffering man kind with mere talk, and begin now, instead, for once to act, that is, really to help and to cure..

HIS MOTTO. "The truth we mortals need Us blest to make and keep, The All-wise slightly covered o'er, But did not bury deep.".

HOMOEOPATHY. Thus homoeopathy is a perfectly simple system of medicine, remaining always fixed in its principles as in its practice, which, like the doctrine whereon it is based, if rightly apprehended will be found to be so exclusive (and only in that way serviceable), that as the doctrine must be accepted in its purity, so it must be purely practised, and all backward straying to the pernicious routine of the old school (whose opposite it is, as day to night) is totally inadmissible, otherwise it ceases to deserve the honourable name of homoeopathy..

HIGHER PURPOSE OF LIFE. If I did not know for what purpose I was put here on earth- to become better myself as far as possible and to make better everything around me, that is within my power to improve -.

SPIRIT BEHIND HIS WORKS. “When I began my quest for the means of giving comfort to suffering humanity and change the harmful therapy then in use, I never looked for any material rewards. I merely did that which the Great spirit, who is all, gave me mind and strength to do; and the joy of duty done gave me so rich a reward in the need of gladness I felt at every step that I should never have dreamed of any reward other than that.”.

AT DEATH BED. Providence surely owes you exemption from all suffering, as you have relieved so many others... He answered: 'Why should I expect exemption from suffering? Everyone in this world works according to the gifts and powers which he has received from Providence.... Providence owes me nothing. I owe it much. Yes, everything.'.

REMEMBER THE WORDS. Turn a deaf ear to all attempts to bribe you by praise and Keep cool as you go along leisurely and calmly, like a wise and sensible man..

HIS WARNING. I must warn the reader that indolence, love of ease and obstinacy preclude effective service at the altar of truth, and only freedom from prejudice and untiring zeal qualify for the most sacred of all human occupations, the practice of the true system of medicine..

CONCLUSION. Hahnemann's theory rests immovably on eternal laws of nature. It will be as immortal as nature herself and with it its creator, Samuel Hahnemann, will remain for ever immortal. He spend a very useful life even in scarcity and his untiring effort to give the suffering humanity – a gentle, genuine method of healing..