Life and Work of Samuel Hahnemann

Heritage

Translated from the German by Marie Wheeler and W.H.R. Grundy, and edited by F.E. Wheeler and John Henry Clarke.

The major work on Hahnemann's life. All later work stems from this.

The first volume is the chronological story, documented with quotes from letters to and from Hahnemann and from other sources. The second volume is the record of the sources used. If a paragraph is quoted from a letter in Volume 1, the whole letter appears in volume 2.

Julian Winston writes:
All other books are but popular efforts, akin to Reader's Digest excerpts. If you are interested in Hahnemann's life, therapeutical developments of potencies and the arguments he had with the medical profession, then this is an essential reference.

From:
The Heritage of Homoeopathic Literature
copyright 2001 by Julian Winston
Reprinted with the permission of the author

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Contents

Editors' Preface -- vii
Author's Preface -- ix
Chapter I: Hahnemann's Ancestors -- 3-6
Chapter II: Samuel Hahnemann's Birthplace -- 7-17
Chapter III: Years of Study -- 18-25
Chapter IV: Hahnemann's Years of Travel -- 26-30
Chapter V: Hahnemann relinquishes the Practice of Medicine -- 31-40
Chapter VI: Treatment of Mental Patients -- 41-48
Chapter VII: Hahnemann as Hygienist and Dietetist -- 49-61
Chapter VIII: Development and First Formulation of the Therapeutic Axiom -- 62-71
Chapter IX: Sojurn in Torgau -- 72-94
Chapter X: Hahnemann as Lecturer -- 95-104
Chapter XI: Literary Feud with Professor Dzondi -- 105-117
Chapter XII: Hahnemann's Removal to Kothen -- 118-135
Chapter XIII: "Chronic Diseases" -- 136-152
Chapter XIV: The Jubilee of Hahnemann's Doctorate -- 153-166
Chapter XV: Hahnemann still the center of the Homeopathic Movement -- 167-183
Chapter XVI: Hahnemann's Assistants -- 184-204
Chapter XVII: The Homeopathic Hospital and Clinic in Leipsig -- 205-221
Chapter XVIII: Hahnemann's Second Marriage -- 222-236
Chapter XIX: Removal to Rue de Milan -- 237-345
Chapter XX: Hahnemann as Man -- 246-264
Chapter XXI: Hahnemann as Physician -- 265-281
Chapter XXII: Hahnemann's Attitude towards Natural Healing -- 282-300
Chapter XXIII: Hahnemann's Struggle against Phlebotomy -- 301-309
Chapter XXIV: The Theory of Homeopathic Doses -- 310-343
Chapter XXV: Madame Melanie and her German relations -- 344-354
Chapter XXVI: Exhumation of Hahnemann's Body -- 355-373
Chapter XXVII: Hahnemann's first Students and Friends -- 374-434
Conclusion -- 435-436
Index to Names -- 437-440
General Index -- 441-443

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