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Hahnemann Memorial
This memorial to Samuel Hahnemann is located at one side of the Scott Circle.
Samuel Hahnemann is the founder of a system of homeopathic medicine. Based on the principle that "like cures like," homeopathic physicians used carefully selected remedies in small doses to stimulate the body's natural healing mechanisms. This gentle system was a contrast to "heroic" medical practices of the time, such as bleeding, purging and leeching. A German physician and graduate of the University of Erlangen, Samuel Hahnemann never visited the United States. He lived his last years in Paris and was buried there in 1843. |