Hahnemann definition
(person) 1755-1843; Ger. physician: founder of homeopathy.
proper name
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Hahnemann (1753-1844) was in conception as revolutionary a reformer of medicine as Paracelsus.
Generally, however, Hahnemann's views contradict those of Brown, though moving somewhat in the same plane.
In order to select remedies which should fulfil the indication of producing symptoms like those of the disease, Hahnemann made many observations of the action of drugs on healthy persons.
On this principle Hahnemann ordered his original tinctures to be reduced in strength to onefiftieth; these first dilutions again to one-fiftieth; and so on, even till the thirtieth dilution, which he himself used by preference, and to which he ascribed the highest "potentiality."
From a theoretical point of view Hahnemann's is one of the abstract systems, pretending to universality, which modern medicine neither accepts nor finds it worth while to controvert.