Article: The founder of Homoeopathy

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April 10, 2009
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Colombo, April 10 -- Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann the founder of the homoeopathic system of medicine was born at Meissen in Saxony on April 10, 1755.

He studied first at the "elector's school" of Meissen, and thereafter as a student of medicine at Leipsic and Vienna. He took the degree of M.D. at Erlangen in 1779.

Dr. Hahnemann was dissatisfied with the limited knowledge of human organism, disease process and the effects of medicines being used. So after acting as physician at various places he returned in 1789 to Leipsic, left his medical career and took up translation work to support his family. He largely occupied himself in the translation of medical works.

While translating Dr. ...

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