páthos, meant that the drug acted in simi- lar ways to the disease itself, affecting the diseased tissues in a like manner, and curiously and substantively, affecting a cure. For this similar effect, Dr. Hahne- mann coined the term, similia similibus curantor, “the law of cures”, meaning that what produces similar symptoms in a healthy person will act to cure a sick per- son with similar symptoms. A third drug effect was also understood by Hahne- mann, the “enantiopathic” or “antipathic”, aπeνaντι, enantíos, for opposite, πaϑoV, páthos, and meant that the drug acted in direct opposition to the disease itself, contraria contraiis curantor, “the law of
contraries or opposites”. Perhaps the most remarkable and heroic prüfung was accomplished by one of Dr. Hahnemann’s students and later colleague, Constantine Hering, himself a medical doctor. Hering obtained a deadly snake, the Surukuku of the Amazon valley, delivered alive in a bamboo box by terri- fied natives. After stunning the seven foot snake with one inch long fangs, he milked the venom and worked, with the help of his wife, to dilute and succuss the dosing he imbibed. He fell into a fever, with de- lirium and mania. By the next morning, he awoke and his mind was clear. Trigono- cephalus lachesis remains one of the most
powerful remedies in the homœopathic Materia Medica.
Advancement of medical science throughout the ages could not have oc- curred but through discoveries in other disciplines. Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727 CE), an English physicist and math- ematician, described the laws of motion and universal gravitation. He also devel- oped the reflecting telescope, understood the spectrum of color to be an intrinsic property of light, laid the foundation for classical mechanics and invented infini- tesimal calculus.
Antonie Philips van Leeuwen- hoek (1632 – 1723 CE), a Dutch tradesman and scientist, fa- miliar with glass processing, and with significant technical insight, manufactured
more than 500 spherical lenses along with numerous microscopes, capable of up to 500X magnification. Leeuwenhoek was the first explorer of the microscopic world, identifying cells and seeing the structure of muscle fibers, mouth bacteria, and spermatozoa and observing blood flow in capillaries. The secrets of his work were carried to his grave. He is regarded as the “Father of Microbiology”.
Dmitri Mendeleev (1869 – 1907 CE),
a Russian chemist and inventor, described the behavior of elements (atoms identified based on a unique number of protons in the nucleus), formulated The Periodic Law, which described patterns of behavior of elements based on electron configuration, and published a periodic chart of elements in 1869, which replaced previous versions and predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered.
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858 – 1947 CE), a German theoretical physi- cist, originated quantum theory and supported the work of then unknown, Albert
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