Samuel Christian Hahnemann
The founder of homoeopathy, Samuel Christian Hahnemann, was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1755. Despite an impoverished background, he acquired a good education and studied chemistry and medicine at the universities of Leipzig, Erlangen and Vienna.
After qualifying as a doctor in 1779, he set up his practice.
Homoeopathy is a well-described, scientifically based system of approaching health and disease. “Scientific” because the insights are based on reproducible experiments. “Well-described” because from these observations a number of precise basic fundamental rules became evident, first among them the “similarity principle.” Although homoeopathy is only 200 years old, it is now practiced in a variety of ways, most of which bear little resemblance to what MasterHahnemann taught. In the public mind the word “homoeopathy” has become so vague that for some it means only an “alternative medicine” and for others a combination of homoeopathic medicines that you buy in the health food store, one mixture for allergies, another for headache, etc.