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The year was 1755, April 11. In a little village known as Meissen, which is located in Saxony, Germany.
Born to poor folk of the time, his father was employed as a porcelain painter. His mother, like other women of the time, was a housewife, looking after her husband, Sam and his other siblings.
Sam was a clever young man, who must have showed his intelligence from a very young age. He was often shut into a room by his father to ponder tricky questions. The substance of his fathers advice to him during his growing up years was – “prove all things, hold fast to what is good, dare to be wise” (and be good to your mum!!!). This ultimately cultivated original thinking in young Sam.
Due to his family’s situation, money was scarce in Sam’s younger years, which unfortunately led to him being frequently taken out of school. Thankfully for his thirst for knowledge, he began paying for his own schooling by the age of 12. He did this by tutoring his fellow students in not only Latin but Greek as well.
This led to him being admitted to the “Princes School” in St Afra, Meissen in 1770, free of charge
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The union ended 8 years later when old Sam departed this earthly world at the age of 88.
This law of similars was the benchmark for Sam to develop the system of Homoeopathy.
This was just the beginning, the beginning of a remarkable prominent place in the history of medicine.
Unfortunately due to that selfish emotion of jealousy, the pharmacists of the day, took action against him, which concluded in poor Sam being prohibited to dispense his own medicine. Then again because of his brilliance, he found himself attending lectures for free.
This remarkable insight came to Sam, while translating Cullens “Materia Medica”.
Having patients travelling from all parts of Europe to see him, he developed a “cult” like status. It’s a wonder he ever found time to scratch himself. Starting to attract such notietry, from his allopathic colleagues, like the witches of the day, Sam was forced to move village to village. It was 4 years later, when a lovely young 34 year old French woman named Melanie married Sam when he was a ripely age of 80.
Success only proceeded over the years, with many publications of his writings, starting with the first edition of the “Organon”. Sam at this time discovered that when he took the bark – he got malaria symptoms.
In the spring of 1775, he began to do formal studies of medicine. By 1800, an epidemic of Scarlet Fever was rife, and good old Sam created a sensation when he successfully used Belladonna (a new type of medicine he had been researching) in homoeopathic doses as a cure and preventative for this epidemic.
This was the first demonstration of “the law of similars” or “like cures like”, which states – “any substance which can produce a totality of symptoms in a healthy being can cure that totality of symptoms in a sick human being”.
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