the first essay

I watched a free Webair from Whole Health Now with George Dimitriadis about the state of the Materia Medica. George is a leading Practitioner, scholar, written 5 books, the list goes on. I took this screen shot at the beginning of the seminar above. The first page of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann's essay on proving data that was published in Hufelands journal in Germany in 1796. These were some of the first words on how Hahnemann had experimented in his provings. George explains how Hahnemann was the first Pharmacographer. Provings mean the tests that are done on a remedy; recorded, graded and documentation completed then compiled in the Materia Medica. It was great to listen to a lecture about the original work of Hahnemann and published by the man I wrote about in my 3rd Assignment of homework.  We were asked to research a contemporary of Samuel Hahnemann and describe his or her life. I recognized the name as I had chosen to write about this man as you read below.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762-1836)

Dr. Hufeland was born in Saxony, as was Hahnemann’s birthplace. He studied and excelled as a German Physician graduating in 1783. He became famous in Germany being the most important physician known for the writing of journals. Dr.Hufeland was the director of a medical college, Chief of Pathology and Therapeutics as well as known for the creator of the term Macrobiotics. He was an outspoken man that found his way to becoming an author, editor of journals and supported vaccination.

He was a good friend of Dr. Hahnemann and his original writings included Hahnemann. Hahnemann first used the word Homeopathy in an essay he wrote about Medicines in Ordinary practice that Hufeland published in 1807. However, 5 years before Dr. Hufeland passed away, Hahnemann attacked Hufeland for his dispute on how Cholera was contacted but in the end, both men had a part in solving the pandemic issues. Hahnemann lived just seven years beyond his contemporary.

Below is a screen shot of the original writings about how Hahnemann considered the degrees of a proving in his observations translated from German of course. I thought this was so cool to see. For some of you that follow my blog to learn, you might find this to be interesting. I just had to write a post about what I learnt today and how important it is to study the proving from the Materia Medica Pura. These are the original works of Hahnemann. George Dimitriadis calls the Materia Medica the Pharmacography meaning medicine and writings from the Greek language, a written record of medicinal effects.

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