Samuel Hahnemann Research Paper

From the beginning of time, doctors and medicine have been put up on a pedestal and greatly admired. They have given to the ones that are sick hope and a way to survive. So many of people have put all their money, faith, and hope into doctors, clinging to any chance that their disease or sickness can be cured. Parents wish for their children to grow up to be doctors one day. Our fascination with doctors stems from many reasons, but the main reason is that they have always been the ones to help us find a solution to our greatest fears, such as death, pain, and sickness. Throughout history doctors have accomplished many great wonders and cured many diseases

These pages from the book do not go into get into deep detail but I do like the fact that it starts and reference to treatments starting off as home remedies then going from there to where we are now in medicine.

Everybody hates going to the doctors. I can agree with this statement I also agree that most people do indeed hate going to the doctors. But without them there would be outbreaks and illness all over the place causing many fatalities. I am focused on the Gilded age, one man I am particularly interested and focused on is Samuel Hahnemann. Samuel was the creator of homeopathy. He believed that if you gave a healthy person small doses of an illness their body would fight it off and build an immunization and adapt to the real illness. This is where his theory “Like cures like” comes from. Homeopathy was birthed of the idea “Like cure like” and went on to have effects on all sorts of medicines and cures throughout the Gilded age.

This, therefore, takes us to the most shared concerns people present about how homeopathic medicines are manufactured and of their safety. The raw materials used for various homeopathic medicines are known poisons. Samuel Hahnemann’s goal was to search for a means to treat patients less severely than the treatments used in his day, which often involved purging, leeching, bloodletting,

Before the 18th century, medicine had not advanced beyond the practices of bloodletting and balancing the four humors of the body. These medical practices were not effective and did more harm than good. It was not until the Scientific Revolution that physicians slowly started to learn more about the human body and how functions. The numerous advancements of medicine in the 18th century and resulting benefits to European Society are reflected in the lack of medical practices before the 1700s, the creation of the smallpox vaccine, and improved techniques.

      Many of the doctors of the time were amazed at the horrible disease. Physicians were stumped about cure or even remedies of this illness. The only advice they could offer is to get away from it and start off new

The “Early Life and Career” of John Pemberton stated that he was born on January 8, 1831 in Knoxville, in Crawford County. Pemberton grew up and attended the local schools in Rome. His family lived there almost thirty years. He studied medicine and pharmaceutical practices at the Reform Medical College of Georgia in Macon. In 1850, at age nineteen, he was licensed to practice with Thomsonian medicine and the Botanic Principles. And such pharmaceutical practitioners during that time relied heavily on herbal remedies and on purifying the body of toxins that seemed commonly suspicious to the general public. Pemberton, “otherwise known as Doc,” practiced medicine and surgical prodecures first in Rome along with the surrounding areas and then afterwards in Columbia. In 1855 he established a wholesale retail drug business specializing in material media. Before the Civil War he acquired a graduate degree in pharmacy, but the exact date and place are unknown. Pemberton and the Columbus Company were part of the analytical and manufacturing laboratories which were unique in the south. While Pemberton had one great obsession which was to create medicine and the perfect beverage, he although invented a lot of patent medicines and owned a successful chemist’s store. He wanted to do something more, something bigger. At age fifty, his chief interest in life was to patent a so-called medicated drink which could not only make him a fortune but also secure a place in scientific history

“Medicines appear to have greater power in affecting the state of health than the natural morbific irritation, for natural diseases are cured and subdued by appropriate medicines” – says Hahnemann. In my opinion, he holds the view that natural disease has the power to make us sick only when our organism is sufficiently disposed and susceptible to the attack of the “morbific cause” whereas the power of medicine is absolute and unconditional. It acts at all times, under all circumstances and on every living human being. Therefore, appropriately chosen medicine (remedy) that matches the symptoms of the illness, and produce an “artificial disease” that is similar to that which is to be cured, administered in the right dose and potency with a greater degree of intensity than the “natural disease” has absolute power to heal the patient.

To understand the practices of the doctors of the Yellow Fever epidemic, there has to be an understanding of eighteenth century medical education. An examination is vital to understand why the physicians of the epidemic treated their patients the way they did. This thesis will outline the education of the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh was the forerunner in medical education in the eighteenth century. It was a hub of the best and newest medical knowledge. The university offered both lectures and clinical practice which attracted aspiring American physicians. Edinburgh’s model of education is seen in the foundation of American apprenticeships and its first medical school in Philadelphia. Although Edinburgh was considered to be the most prestigious

Johannes Brahms was born in Germany in 1833. He was a musical child prodigy! Luckily, his father recognized his talent and helped teach him music. Brahms got jobs playing in bars and taverns around Hamburg. In his teenage years he focused on dance music which he played every night as part of his job. However, since Brahms disliked wasting time he propped a book up and read while he played piano. When Brahms was 20 he met Robert Schumann, who called Brahms a genius! Eventually Brahms became one of the most famous composers of his day, with word of his music spreading through his home country and the many surrounding it. Brahms music brought warm and rich romantic music to the classical age. However, Brahms was quite self critical and often did

In the 21th century we live our lives day to day seeing the next medicine breakthrough. It is easy for us to assume that’s how the history of medicine has always been. On the contrary, medicine became positively modern in the 19th century, new inventions were introduced, new discoveries were brought to their attention, remedies was in the spotlight, and the start of women’s professions generated.

The medical field was in its infancy during this time in history, and hopeful miracle cures were sought after more than proven treatments. Snake oil salesmen were in abundance as the general public gravitated to the desire to believe in cure-all potions. Physicians who led the field at the time, were not far from the same shortcut mentality. Proper diagnosis were time consuming during this period with the ratio of doctors available for patient care grossly unbalanced. Due to these adverse conditions any ideas of instant or generalized diagnosis were eagerly incorporated simple due to the desire for a simple solution more than any actual confidence in the perspective cure.

Chapter 4 According to Hahnemann, pathology alone cannot be used to diagnose a patient. A wide knowledge of general pathologies is necessary for more accurate prescribing. As a homoeopath we can prescribe a remedy to match the beginning symptoms of a pathology and do not need to wait for the full pathology to develop before treating the patient. After extensive case taking and physical examination of Hahnemann’s patients, he used every symptom and the pathology to give the correct remedy to his patients.

Homeopathy is a form of alternative medication that has been increasing in popularity in today’s society. It is often substituted for conventional medication14. Homeopathy was created in the seventeen hundreds when German doctor Samuel Hahnemann concluded that if a substance can induce the symptoms of an illness in a healthy person, then it can treat those symptoms in an ill person. He first tested Cinchona bark, a treatment for malaria, on himself and said to have experienced the symptoms of malaria. He also concluded that the medicine was more effective in a lower concentration therefore he invented the process of succession to reduce the side effects of the medicine and to increase its ability to heal13.

Homeopathy was developed during the Industrial Revolution, a period encompassing vast technological, economic and social changes. Many people belonging to the lower class were forced to live in poor living conditions and there developed an increased need for hospital, doctors and medication.