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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kuzniar, Alice

Titel

THE LAW OF SIMILARS

Ist Teil von

• The Birth of Homeopathy Out of the Spirit of Romanticism, 2017, p.27-58

Ort / Verlag

Canada: University of Toronto Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The best entry into the world of homeopathy is via Samuel Hahnemann’s own inaugural essay of 1796, “Versuch über ein neues Prinzip zur Auffindung der Heilkräfte der Arzneisubstanzen” (“Essay on a New Principle for Ascertaining the Curative Powers of Drugs”). Here he first vocalized his principle of similia similibus curentur, which was to guide all his subsequent findings: “We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic disease by superadding another, and employ in the (especially chronic) disease we wish to cure that medicine that is able to produce another very similar artificial disease, and the former will be cured;