The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER LXXIII. A CURE BY HAHNEMANN--HIS PREFACE TO ARSENICUM--SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF GRADUATION--RULES OK FRENCH HOMOEOPATHIC COLLEGE--HOM030PATHY IN PARIS. The following letter, signed "A Lover of Hahnemann," was published in the Homoeopathic Times for February 7, 1852: * "Thirteen years ago I was given up by the Allopathic doctors for consumption. A goodly number of them had pronounced me incurable. At this period a benevolent lady sent from Paris an invitation for me to visit her in that city, in order that I might get the advice of the immortal Hahnemann. At first the doctor then attending me sent word that I was too weakly to undertake the journey, but the lady persisted and he yielded. "In a month after I was examined and sounded by Hahnemann, who smiled as he stroked my head and said: 'I am glad you have come to me in time, I shall cure you.' Now I had been examined by more than twenty eminent Allopathists (Sir James Clark being one of them), all of whom thought me beyond human skill; but the old, bald-headed, persecuted Hahnemann, the great medical benefactor of mankind, after an hour's examination of my lungs, said: 'I shall cure you.' After being under his treatment for eight months, I returned to Scotland completely cured. "I may mention that the good old man (for whose good doing to me and to mankind I have often felt grateful to God) refused to take a single farthing for his advice and medicine, although he knew that the lady who took so much interest in me was in opulent circumstances." It was in the year 1839 that Hahnemann made his last contribution to the "Materia Medica," the preface to the provings of Arsenicurn. He says: f "The mentioning of Arsenic calls up powerful recollections in my soul. *Horn. Times, London, ...