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April 23, 2011· 1 min read

PHILOSOPHY: SAMUEL HAHNEMANN Hahnemann claimed that the medicine of his time did as much harm as good: My sense of duty would not easily allow me to treat the unknown pathological state of my suffering brethren with these unknown medicines. The thought of becoming in this way a murderer or male

SAMUEL HAHNEMANN

PHILOSOPHY: SAMUEL HAHNEMANN Hahnemann claimed that the medicine of his time did as much harm as good: My sense of duty would not easily allow me to treat the unknown pathological state of my suffering brethren with these unknown medicines. The thought of becoming in this way a murderer or malefactor towards the life of my fellow human beings was most terrible to me, so terrible and disturbing that I wholly gave up my practice in the first years of my married life and occupied myself solely with chemistry and writing !

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