Hahnemann (1755-1843) had already led a full career as a physician, researcher and educator prior to his developing Homeopathy.
\"My sense of duty would not easily allow me to treat the unknown pathological state of my suffering brethren with these unknown medicines. The thought of becoming in this way a murderer or malefactor towards the life of my fellow human beings was most terrible to me, so terrible and disturbing that I wholly gave up my practice in the first years of my married life and occupied myself solely with chemistry and writing.\" …Hahnemann 1782
He called it homeopathy, by uniting two Greek roots,
homoios meaning \"similar,\" and
pathos meaning \"what one feels.\"
Homeopathy consists of treating sick people with medicines which, in crude (larger) doses, are capable of producing in healthy people symptoms that are similar (homoios), and even stronger, to those of the disease a person is suffering (pathos).
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