Samuel Hahnemann Professions : Physician Born : April 10, 1755 Died : July 2, 1843 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Samuel Hahnemann The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way. Samuel Hahnemann restoration medicine health The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles. Samuel Hahnemann disease principles way The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed. Samuel Hahnemann healthy sick people Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing. Samuel Hahnemann practice healing art Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like. Samuel Hahnemann drug fighting wish I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science. Samuel Hahnemann humanity mistake science There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity. Samuel Hahnemann infinity limits goes-on The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition -God knows which -dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road. Samuel Hahnemann should-have school thinking One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names. Samuel Hahnemann fever confusion names Similar Authors Abram Hoffer physician Buwei Yang Chao physician Broda Otto Barnes physician Brian Day physician Anna Komnene physician Axel Munthe physician All Authors
