The early provings

Similia Vol 24 No 1 – June 2012

Author: Peter Morrell

Abstract

There are several misconceptions about the early provings and it is therefore useful to try and see them in the context in which they emerged, which is quite a tangled matter because it concerns the situation in which Hahnemann found himself with regard to medicine in general during the late 1780s. It is often imagined that Hahnemann simply started proving drugs quite randomly soon after the Cinchona experiment of 1790 using strict protocols throughout. This is not correct. He was proving drugs with a quite specific objective in mind and he was proving certain drugs in particular rather than random substances. Nor were strict protocols adhered to because he was mainly proving these early drugs in order to try and confirm their alleged properties as recorded in the medical literature.

Keywords: proving, single drugs, poisons, similars principle, Fragmenta de viribus, Materia Medica Pura.

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