Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Hahnemann

(Samuel). A German physician, who set forth in his Organon of Medicine the system which he called “homœopathy” the principles of which are these: (1) that diseases are cured by those medicines which would produce the disease in healthy bodies; (2) that medicines are to be simple and not compounded; (3) that doses are to be exceedingly minute. (1755-1843).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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