Artefacts: Homeopathic History

Surviving the opposition of the establishment, by Ralph Tapping Eighteenth century German physician Samuel Hahnemann ( 1755-1843 ) first coined the word “homeopathy” ( “homeos” in Greek means “similar” and “pathos” means “suffering”) to refer to the law of similarities that is its basis.  That is, “The treatment of diseases by substances which produce similar