Manual of homoeopathic theory and practice : designed for the use of physicians and families / by Arthur Lutze ; translated from the German, with additions by Charles J. Hempel.

  • Lutze, Arthur, 1813-1870.
Date:
[1860]
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Credit: Manual of homoeopathic theory and practice : designed for the use of physicians and families / by Arthur Lutze ; translated from the German, with additions by Charles J. Hempel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    PREFACE. There are still many who have not the remotest idea of Hahnemann's true greatness and of his doctrine. Some only know him as a great physician and discoverer of a new system of cure, others as a medical reformer whom they range side by side with other reformers of the sciences and believe to have sufficiently honored by comparing him to Newton, Galilai, Copernicus, etc. But what have all these discoverers accomplished in com- parison with Hahnemann ? They have indeed discovered new laws, conquered old prejudices, removed abuses, and announced unknown truths; but they were enabled to continue that which had been begun by their predecessors, and to improve existing knowledge. Hahnemann, on the contrary, had to overthrow the present and was not even able to make use of the ruins of the past; he had to create every thing anew, and, like a phoenix above the ashes, his new doctrine hovers over the ancient chaos of errors, prejudices and fatal abuses