Homopathy : an examination of its doctrines and evidences / By Worthington Hooker.

  • Hooker, Worthington, 1806-1867.
Date:
1852
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    HOMffiOPATHY. CHAPTER I. EXPOSITION OF THE SYSTEM OF HAHNEMANN. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of the system termed Homoeopathy, was born at Messein, in Saxony, in the year 1755. His father was a painter on porce- lain, and had not the means of giving him a profes- sional education. Happily, however, says Mr. Sampson, one of his warmest eulogists, at twelve years of age he attracted the attention of Dr. Muller, the Director of the Provincial School, by whom a free admission was procured for him to all the advan- tages of that establishment. His progress was rapid, and in a short time he became one of the assistant teachers. On leaving this school, he resolved to de- vote himself to the medical profession. For this pur- pose he went to the university of Leipsic, with only twenty ducats in his pocket. He supported himself there by translating French and English works into German. At the end of two years he went to Vienna, to gain in the hospitals of that city the advantages 1*