In Search of the Later Hahnemann (Beaconsfield Homoeopathic Library) by Handley, Rima (1997) Paperback - Softcover

Rima Handley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0906584353 ISBN 13: 9780906584354

Publisher: Beaconsfield Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

This book is the story of Samuel Hahnemann's practice of homeopathy in Paris during the last years of his life. It is based on his actual casebooks, which up till now have been left substantially unexamined in a German library. It was to Paris that Hahnemann had moved with his young second wife, Melanie, and here that he completed the second edition of his Chronic Diseases and the final revision of his major theoretical work, the Organon. We see him putting into practice the implications of his thinking on chronic disease, experimenting with some of the new remedies being developed by himself and others, and pushing his conception of the infinitesimal dose to undreamed-of lengths in the LM potency. The whole range of his Paris patients appear in these pages, many of them famous, others obscure, and still others who had travelled from elsewhere in Europe and the Americas to seek his help. We see him grappling with the scourges of the time, such as consumption and the consequences of ven

About this edition

• Publisher: Beaconsfield Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0906584353
• ISBN 13: 9780906584354
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220