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Placebos certainly didn’t start with Grams or even Hahnemann. Plato was in favor of occasionally fibbing to fool patients into having a response to dubious remedies. Hippocrates, a fellow Greek who lived around the same time, also understood the power of the body to heal itself but opposed such mind games.
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Erik Vance (Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal)
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with the elucidation of the genetic code in 1966, Francis Crick confidently declared vitalism dead and buried. Only it still lives on in various pseudosciences. Homeopathy is based on vitalism. Its founder Samuel Hahnemann believed that diseases ‘are solely spirit-like (dynamic) derangements of the spirit-like power (the vital principle) that animates the human body’.
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Matt Ridley (The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge)
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The term “allopathic” was coined by a German physician named Samuel Hahnemann in the 19th century. It is derived from the two Greek words, “allos” meaning “opposite” and “pathos,” meaning “disease.” Hahnemann was a homeopathic physician (a type of Wholistic medicine), and he came up with this term to describe and separate himself and the members of his profession from the MDs of his time that espoused the use of dangerous and harmful medical treatments such as blood-letting, and the use of large doses of toxic substances, like mercury. Modern day MDs are not so happy with the term “allopath,” and will go out of their way to try to convince you that what they do is practice “Medicine,” - that they in fact are the sole proprietors of the entire medical field. But they are not. What they do is just ONE PIECE of the medical pie. “Allopathic” is an entirely appropriate eponym for what MDs do, and Hahnemann should be applauded for his insight.
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Peter J. Glidden (The MD Emperor Has No Clothes: Everybody Is Sick and I Know Why)
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start calling the area hospitals. Temple, Aria, Hahnemann, Jefferson, and Einstein.
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William L. Myers Jr. (An Engineered Injustice (Philadelphia Legal, #2))
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Half a century after Linnaeus, Samuel Hahnemann, the homeopath, paraphrased the same thought. Coffee creates an "artificially heightened sense of being," according to Hahnemann; "presence of mind, alertness, and empathy are all elevated more than in a healthy natural condition"; but, he goes on, these effects are unhealthy, in that they throw life off its natural rhythm, which consists in an alteration of wakefulness and sleepiness.
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch (Tastes of Paradise)
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SAMUEL HAHNEMANN WAS A GERMAN DOCTOR FROM Saxony, where he set up in practice in 1779 at the age of twenty-four. He was brilliant and independent
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Albert-Claude Quemoun (Homeopathy: The Complete Guide to Natural Remedies)
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Hahnemann wanted to test medicines and substances on individuals who were in good health to assess their effects. First, he experimented on himself, taking Cinchona bark to assess its impact. This was a medicine recently brought back from South America and used to treat fevers, but Cinchona was still not well understood, and its side effects had been poorly assessed.
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Albert-Claude Quemoun (Homeopathy: The Complete Guide to Natural Remedies)
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Homeopathy was created in Germany at the beginning of the 19th century by a young doctor named Samuel Hahnemann. A keen observer of human nature, he was disgusted by the practices he observed in medicine at the time, especially bloodletting. He saw physicians of his era doing more harm than good, and believed the best medicine was often bed rest and a good diet.
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Erik Vance (Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal)
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Hahnemann hypothesized that it wasn’t the chemical itself that brought relief but the essence of that chemical. Thus, you could dilute the cure with water until the compound was nonexistent, and the water would convey that essence of cure to the patient.
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Erik Vance (Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal)
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La fuerza vital, que durante la salud es el principio que mantiene el orden orgánico, cuando es desequilibrada es incapaz de retornar por sí sola al equilibrio. Es por esa razón por la que Hahnemann sostenía que era ciega – por no poder descubrir el camino de retorno- y no inteligente – porque es incapaz de reflexionar a fin de encontrar el medio más adecuado para regresar al equilibrio primitivo-:
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Marcelo Candegabe (Bases y Fundamentos de la Doctrina y la Clínica Médica Homeopáticas)