Samuel Hahnemann, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint): His Life and Work - Couverture souple

Richard Haehl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330310381 ISBN 13 : 9781330310380

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Hook line: Explore the life and ideas that shaped the rise of homeopathy and its people.

This volume examines the early days of the homeopathic movement through the life of Samuel Hahnemann and his circle. It covers how a small, idea-driven tradition built colleges, hospitals, and teaching clinics that educated generations of physicians. You’ll see the challenges, debates, and breakthroughs that helped homeopathy gain a foothold in the United States and Europe, as well as the personalities who carried its work forward.

From Hahnemann’s own reforms to the practical work of teachers, clinicians, and publishers, the book traces how philosophy became practice. It highlights pivotal institutions, key figures, and the ongoing push to systematize provings, training, and patient care. The narrative emphasizes endurance, adaptation, and the everyday efforts of those who kept the movement alive across decades and continents.

• Learn how homeopathy developed its methods and what early doctors believed about remedies and dose.


• Discover the growth of medical education and hospital work within the movement.


• Meet influential contributors and their roles in expanding practice and publication.


• Understand the historical context that shaped attitudes toward new medical ideas.

Ideal for readers of medical history, biography, and the story of alternative approaches to healing.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Samuel Hahnemann, Vol. 1: His Life and Work

In order to be able to form an Opinion concerning this man who belongs to history, it is necessary to describe in clear and firm outlines the period in which Hahnemann was born, the life in Meissen, his father and mother, the school years, as well as the early education of the boy. It would then be necessary to describe his life and activities up to the year 1790, the year in which the new principle of healing was discovered. It will be necessary throughout not to pass judgment, or to give a mosaic pieced together of pros and cons, which would only satisfy the superficial reader. Causes must be given in their original form, progress and growth must be demonstrated without any reference to possible errors.

The first essential is to represent the moral man, his emotions and sensations, as depicted in his writings and in the many published and unpublished letters and to use other information and testimony. After that his character, his mode of thinking, his ideas in connection with his home-life, his life as a citizen and in politics his actions as a man, husband, father and citizen must be delineated. Then let us describe him as the physician, teacher, colleague and debater in this way let us bring him to that point where a gentle hand will sever his connection with the outside world by cutting the silken threads, where no printed, no written, no spoken words will be admitted, but only the joyous entry of those who seek for help where he will find peace, peace with himself, peace with the world which is veiled from him, and with his God, and - he dies.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330310381
• ISBN 13: 9781330310380
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 467
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