Similia Vol 23 No 1 – June 2011

Author: Peter Morrell

Abstract

‘The discoveries of Hahnemann, and those of his ablest and most rational disciples, of the minutest effects of old and new medicines, has as yet been more useful to mankind than all the minute discoveries of the pathological chemists, microscopists, and pathological histologists.’ (1)

While the Organon of 1810 delivered the rationale and principles of homeopathy to the medical world, it was the Materia Medica Pura, published the following year that delivered the first collection of proven drugs, the tools that aspiring homeopaths could begin to use. Thus, the principles and the methods of the new system arrived almost simultaneously

Reference: (1) John Charles Peters & Frederick Greenwood Snelling, Principles and Practice of Medicine, New York: Wm Radde, 1863