The secret life of Hahnemann

As Donald Rumsfeld said- “As we know, there are known knowns thereare things we know we how. We also know there are known unknowns; that is tosay we know there are something we do not know”; this book is an effort toexpose to the homoeopathic world the unknown known of Hahnemann.Our master belongs to thegroup of people who come for instruction, inspiration and leadership; hispersonality and his teaching represent the truth for which we stand. Dr.Hahnemann was a distinguished classical scholar, a learned linguist and amedical philosopher along with an accomplished chemist and a celebratedphysician. He wrote more than 70 original works on chemistry and Medicinebesides his 24 important translations from English, French, Italian and Latin.Besides discovering many valuable medicinal phenomena undreamt of, he verifiedhis discoveries and observations by ransacking the volumes of recordedexperiments on Materia Medica and the history of poisoning. Homoeopathy is thescience and art of therapeutic medication that was developed by C.F.S.Hahnemann (1755-1843)One can never know fullyabout the life of someone ever but through this book author has made itpossible for us to peek into the unfamiliar life stages of Hahnemann. It is aneffort to expose to the homoeopathic world the unknown known of our master. Anattempt to showcase the way of Hahnemannian working, the wisdom with which heswayed in his tasks. Any idea of how many children did Hahnemann bear? (evenGoogle doesn’t know), how many brothers sisters he had? This piece brings aninsight to this too.A bet that people knowabout the Hahnemann’s fellow provers, well a list of provers along with whoproved which drugs are introduced, sounds informative. We have gone throughHahnemann’s life story multiple times, but still there is a lot of informationthat hasn’t seen the light of the day for years.Our author Dr. Nigam went out on a limb tobring all this information to us via his book. Many distinct topics such as Lutherism, Alchemy, Vis Medicatrix Natuae,Mesmerism & animal magnestism are discussed in here, aren’t theseintriguing? Are you aware of ‘THEHAHNEMANNIAN’S CODE’? Onevery engaging topic readers might want to know for sure! This book will help usgain insight into how Hahnemann developed a holistic system of medicine andfaced all the challenges that came his way. The sincere efforts taken by theauthor in extensive research and compiling the data from different sources areworthy of commendation.Abook you would not want to leave. The smell of fresh pages along with historyweaved in would take you into another essence of that time.Aboutthe author- Dr Harsh after finishingMBBS from B.R.D. Medical College, Gorakhpur, completed his M.D. in Humanphysiology from M.L.B. Medical College, Jhansi. His first exposure toHomoeopathic way came under his scholarly and renowned father Dr JagdishChandra Nigam DF (Horn.) from 1993-95. In 2001-2002 Dr Harsh completed MF(Homoeopathy.), from the faculty of Homoeopathy the Royal London HomoeopathicHospital, U.K. He has since published several papers like: • Homoeopathic Managementof Chronic Renal Failure; Drug picture of Carcinosin; Retrospective Study ofHomoeopathic Management of Urolithiasis Assessed by Ultrasonography; Psoriasis& Homoeopathy, (Homoeopathic Heritage) • Childhood Care: WhatHomoeopathy Can Offer? (CCRH/AYUSH) • 20 volume series ofarticles in the section Organon Only of Homeobuzz magazine • Study of efficacy ofgenus epidemicus in epidemic of chikungunya fever at Kanpur: presented at 66thworld homoeopathic congress of LIGA. • Lectures on HomoeopathicPhilosophy with Classroom Notes; Principle & Practice of Homoeopathic CaseManagement both by B. Jain Publishers, New Delhi • Hahnemannography(Sharnam Homoeopathy Research Society) He is currently a memberfor Special Committee of clinical research at the Central Council for Researchin Homoeopathy, New Delhi.