title: True Homopathy: Dr. Samuel Hahnemann's Original Homopathic Medicine
author: Nicola Henriques
description: Born in England, Nicola Henriques LicLCCH, MBRCP[H], CHE., began researching homopathy in the early 1980s and received her Licentiate degree with honours, from the London College of Classical Homopathy in 1993. Prior to that she was a journalist. Nicola practises Dr. Samuel Hahnemanns original medical system of homopathy devoid of all embellishment. She maintains a select clinical practice and offers occasional private continuing practitioner development tutorials. The authors other non-fiction books include Women on Menopause: A Practical Guide to a Positive Transition; Crossroads to Cure: The Homeopaths Guide to Second Prescription; Release The Vital Force: The Exact Science and Art of Homopathic Patient Examination. For more information visit: www.nicolahenriques.com
zlib_text: THE BIRTH OF HOMEOPATHY  
  OUT OF THE SPIRIT OF ROMANTICISM
  Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel 
  Hahnemann, who ardently proposed that “like cures like,” counter to 
  the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite 
  effect to symptoms.
  Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical practice 
  of homeopathy within the Romantic culture in which it arose. In The 
  Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism, Kuzniar argues 
  that Hahnemann was not an iconoclast and visionary, but rather a 
  product of his time with links to his contemporaries such as Goethe 
  and  Alexander von Humboldt. It is the first book in English to examine 
  Hahnemann’s unpublished writings, including case journals and self-
  testings. Kuzniar’s engaging writing style seamlessly weaves together 
  medical, philosophical, semiotic, and literary concerns in order to reveal 
  homeopathy as a phenomenon of its time. The Birth of Homeopathy out of 
  the Spirit o