13/06/2024
A great story...
In the early 1820s, Hahnemann was obliged to leave Leipzig to escape the prosecutions of physicians and pharmacists, leaving many to expect that homeopathy would die out. When it did not die, a major medical publisher became determined to kill it and asked a staunch opponent of homeopathy and a professor of surgery at a prominent university to write a book against homeopathy. Dr. Robbi, the surgeon in question, lacked the time and recommended his assistant as “the very best man to do the job” because he had a brilliant scientific mind. His name was Constantine Hering.
The contract was made, and the book was nearly completed when the author came across an article of Hahnemann's entitled "Nota Bene for my Reviewers," in which Hahnemann wrote, “Homeopathy appeals, not only chiefly, but solely to the verdict of �experience—‘repeat the experiments,’ it cries aloud, ‘repeat them �carefully and accurately, and you will find the doctrine confirmed at �every step’—and it does what no medical doctrine, no system of� physic, no so-called therapeutics ever did or could do, it insists upon �being ‘judged by the result.”
This induced the young Hering to experiment, and in the course of two years, he became, step by step, more and more convinced of the truth of all the practical rules of homeopathy.
At this point in time, he developed a dissection wound, which, under the treatment of his teachers, reached such a degree of severity that amputation of the hand was advised. At the suggestion of a friend, who was a student of homeopathy, the efficacy of the potentized drug was tried. The result was a complete cure of the wound, which led to the thorough conversion of Hering. Astonished by the results, the book was discontinued, and Hering dedicated the next 58 years of his professional life to homeopathy.
