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Samuel Hahnemann Quotes

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

Samuel Hahnemann
Health, Medicine, Restoration
Samuel Hahnemann, Robert Ellis Dudgeon (1913). “Organon of the Rational Art of Healing”

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

Samuel Hahnemann
Art, Healing, Practice
Samuel Hahnemann, Robert Ellis Dudgeon (1913). “Organon of the Rational Art of Healing”

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Samuel Hahnemann
Sick, People, Healthy
Samuel Hahnemann (1982). “Organon of medicine”, J P Tarcher

The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.

Samuel Hahnemann
Disease, Way, Principles

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

Samuel Hahnemann
Mistake, Science, Humanity

Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like.

Samuel Hahnemann
Fighting, Drug, Wish

There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.

Samuel Hahnemann
Goes On, Limits, Infinity
Samuel Hahnemann (1893). “Organon of Medicine”

The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition -God knows which -dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road.

Samuel Hahnemann
School, Thinking, Should Have

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

Samuel Hahnemann
Names, Confusion, Fever
Samuel Hahnemann (1982). “Organon of medicine”, J P Tarcher

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